Dariusz Stola is a professor at the Institute of Political Studies and the Polish Academy of Sciences, and fellow at the Centre for Migration Research, Warsaw University. Recipient of the Fulbright scholarship (New School for Social Research, New York) and of the Stefan Batory Foundation’s scholarship.
His main areas of focus are: history of the People’s Republic of Poland, international migrations in the 20th c., social memory, and Polish-Jewish relations.
He is author and editor of more than 100 articles and 9 books, including Patterns of Migration in Central Europe (co-edited with Claire Wallace), published in English by Palgrave Macmillan (2001). In 2011, he received Best Historical Book of 2010 Award from Polityka weekly for Kraj bez wyjścia? Migracje z Polski 1949-1989 (A Country with No Exit? Migrations from Poland, 1949-1989).
In 2013, he was awarded the Polonia Restituta Order of Military Cross for his input into the research, documentation and commemoration of the legacy of the March 1968 political crisis.