Antoni Porayski-Pomsta is a historian of Poland and Russian empire contributing to Professor Jennifer Keating's Land Limits project. He received my BA from the University of Oxford, and MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge. His doctoral dissertation, A history of Russian Poland's urban outskirts, c. 1880-1914, explored how peri-urban spaces were 'produced' through the interactions between the imperial state, the domestic elite(s), and the local inhabitants, primarily migrants from small towns and the countryside.
These days he is particularly interested in the negotiation of belonging between Poles and Jews in the western borderlands of the Russian empire. He would like to learn how ethno-religious communities lived together, made spaces their own, and negotiated their borders. These negotiations were particularly complex between 1905 and 1920, a period in which Russian Poland went through revolutionary turmoil, the First World War and, in its aftermath, contested state-building and military conflict on multiple fronts.
He has published inKritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History andJournal Social History.
Full details on her UCD staff profile here(opens in a new window)https://people.ucd.ie/antoni.porayski-pomsta.