Research Projects

Ethics, Justice, and the Ideal Society in Late Medieval Poland: An Anthology (2024-2026, edited volume)

How fifteenth-century Polish intellectuals stood and fought for a just and ethical world before the dawn of the Renaissance.

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Sparks: Political, Intellectual, and Religious Utopia in the Premodern World (2024-2027, co-edited volume)

Utopia is not merely a literary genre. Utopian history, as a system of inquiry, should become a legitimate and needed field of historical study, particularly for historians investigating the premodern era.

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Turn back to the Future: Faith and Foresight in the Various Renaissances (2025-2028, edited volume)

What were people dreaming and scheming while busy reviving the ancient world? What plans did they conceive while mining classical texts? The volume hopes to establish the relationship between the future and the renaissance and offer a full-bodied futuristic interpretation of world renaissance cultures.

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The Annales School after a Century: Legacy, Controversy, and Historiography (2026-2029, co-edited volume)

The volume aims to present new and creative interpretations of the French Annales heritage and its impact on the historical discipline from a North American perspective.

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Euchronia: Hope, Anxiety, and the Polish Renaissance (2022-2030, monograph)

A cultural and emotional examination of a body of sixteenth-century Polish political thinkers and their imaginations of the ideal republic. Could the Polish Renaissance possibly be a renaissance of utopianism?