Dr. Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska is an Assistant Professor and Faculty Member at the University of Warsaw's Faculty of History, Department of Medieval History, and was previously employed at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IH PAN). She holds a PhD from IH PAN and the University of Florence, and a Master’s from the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on the cultural and political history of medieval Italian cities, particularly Florence and Milan, with special emphasis on urban space, perception, and administration in the late Middle Ages. Her research interests include: History of pre-modern cities, urban planning in the Middle Ages, spatial rationalization, material culture, sumptuary laws, heraldic symbolism, and historiography. She investigates how mathematical tools, visual culture, and legal frameworks shaped urban life and political legitimacy in medieval Italy. Her work often bridges quantitative analysis with cultural interpretation, focusing on sources such as chronicles, property registers, and luxury inventories. The trends in her publications reveal a strong focus on the intersection of urban space, measurement, and political symbolism in late medieval Italy. She frequently analyzes how cities like Florence and Milan were described mathematically and visually to convey power, order, and identity. Her articles span journals such as Acta Poloniae Historica , Kwartalnik Historyczny , and Archivio Storico Italiano , and include entries in the Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle . Lanckoroński Foundation Scholarship (2023) Erasmus+ Program Scholarship Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska leads an NCN Preludium grant titled Urban Space of Late Medieval Florence: Imagination and Perception and has contributed to internal IH PAN projects on medieval spatial issues. She has presented at international conferences such as Urban Visual Culture(s) in Durham and the Residential Seminar on Late Medieval Studies in San Miniato. She has also co-authored works on research paradigms in medieval urban studies and serves as the editorial secretary of Acta Poloniae Historica . She collaborates with scholars like Halina Manikowska and is cited in studies on medieval Italian communes and urban symbolism. She is actively engaged in academic publishing, conference presentations, and editorial work, contributing significantly to the historiography of medieval urban space and material culture.
