Paulina Dominik

I am a historian of the nineteenth and early twentieth century and work at the intersection of global history and area studies with a focus on the connected histories of Central-Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and the Mediterranean. My broader research interests include the history of imperialism and nationalism, the history of migration, intellectual and cultural history, and the history of Orientalism.
My current project examines Polish imperial thought, (trans-)imperial agency and the practices of informal imperialism in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Mediterranean, and seeks to investigate the complex attitudes of historical actors from Central-Eastern Europe towards imperialism, colonialism and Orientalism.
I am currently a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. Before joining the EUI, I was awarded a PhD degree in History by the Freie Universität Berlin where I was a doctoral fellow at the Graduate School "Global Intellectual History" from 2017 to 2021. Prior to that, I received my BA and MSt degrees in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford.