Misiuk Andrzej
prof. dr hab. Andrzej Misiuk – Professor of Humanities (2008), member of research and teaching staff at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw, Head of the Department of Internal Security. He has been engaged in academic and research work since 1983. His research interests include broadly understood security, in particular the history of police institutions and special services in Poland as well as internal security systems at national and European levels. He initiated work on the creation of a new university course, Internal Security (2005), and a new scientific discipline, security sciences (2010). He defended his doctoral thesis at the age of twenty-nine and was awarded a habilitacja postdoctoral degree at thirty-eight. On 23 July 2008, he received the title of Professor of Humanities from the President of the Republic of Poland. He received all his degrees and his academic title from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, of which he is a graduate. Since 1997, he was associated with universities in Olsztyn, first the University of Pedagogy, then the University of Warmia and Mazury, where he was Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration. In 2008, he started his research and teaching career at the Institute of Political Science, University of Warsaw. Member of the editorial committee of “Przegląd Policyjny” [Police Review] since 1990 and of “Internal Security” since 2011. Member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in New York since 2000. Since 2016, he has been a member of the Central Committee for Degrees and Titles to the Prime Minister. In the Committee, he represents his discipline (security studies) in the Social Sciences and Humanities section. Even before 1989, he initiated pioneering scientific research on the pre-war police, which he continued for many years. He established the Department of Police History at the Police Academy in Szczytno, where he held the position of Director of Institute from 1990 to 2007. He was part of an international team of historians who authored Policing Interwar Europe, a book on the history of European police in the interwar period, published in London in 2006 by the renowned Palgrave Macmillan publishing house. He also took an active part in the work of social organisations seeking to commemorate the tragic fate of Poles in Soviet Russia after 1939, especially all the pre-war police officers. He was involved in work aimed to identify the victims of the 1940 Soviet massacre in Tver, conducted by the “Karta” Centre as part of the Index of the Repressed initiative, and penned the gravestone inscriptions commissioned by the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom. For these achievements, he was awarded the “Pieta Miednoje 1940” Memorial Medallion of Honour on 25 May 2004. To date, Professor Andrzej Misiuk has published 56 books, seven primary sources, 177 articles and scientific contributions, six popular science publications and seven reviews, which appeared in both domestic and foreign journals (in Germany, Lithuania, France, the United Kingdom, Romania, Russia and Spain).
Research interests
Theory of security, internal security systems, history of police and special services.
Unit
Department of Internal Security
Recent publications:
A. Misiuk, Służby wywiadu i kontrwywiadu II Rzeczypospolitej, Warszawa, 2016.
A. Misiuk, Zarys ustroju administracji spraw wewnętrznych w Polsce. Przemiany prawno-organizacyjne od połowy XVIII wieku do współczesności, Warszawa, 2018.
A. Misiuk, M. Jurgilewicz, A. Babiński, Bezpieczeństwo wewnętrzne państwa. Wybrane problemy teorii i praktyki, Szczytno, 2018.
