I am a sociologist. My fields of interest include: Jewish/non-Jewish relations, Holocaust studies, memory studies, Jewish heritage and revival in Poland, antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence in postwar Poland, far-right movement in Poland, sociology of violence, appropriation and restitution. I studied within Interfaculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and La Sapienza University in Rome. I was awarded Fulbright Junior Advanced Research Award in 2012. I obtained my PhD from the Jagiellonian University (Institute of Sociology) in 2017. I took part in many projects investigating memory and history of the Holocaust in Poland. I was a postdoctoral researcher in the project “Mapping the Archipelago of Lost Towns: Post-Holocaust Urban Lacunae in the Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian Borderlands” (Gerda Henkel Foundation, 2020-2023) and assistant professor of sociology at the Jagiellonian University, at the Institute of Intercultural Studies (2023-2025). I am part of Magdalena Waligórska’s ERC – Consolidator Grant’s research project titled PLUNDERED LIVES Intimate Dispossession: The Afterlives of Plundered Jewish Personal Possessions in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (2024-2029. She is co-author of a collaborative book “The History of the Shtetl after 1945 (together with Magdalena Waligórska, Alexander Friedman, Ina Sorkina and Yechiel Weizman, De Gruyter, 2026)

Books:

Magdalena Waligórska, Duch-Dyngosz, Marta, Friedman, Alexander, Sorkina Ina and Yechiel Weizman. The History of the Shtetl after 1945. Berlin: De Gruyter Brill, 2026.

Marta Duch-Dyngosz, Commemoration of Jewish Communities in Former Shtetls in Present-Day Poland Working Through or Abuse of Memory? Berlin: De Gruyter Brill (under review)

Peer-reviewed journals

(under review) Marta Duch-Dyngosz. “Jewish Return and Property Restitution in post-Jewish towns in Lublin region in Poland – social network, main actors and social relations.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Marta Duch-Dyngosz. 2026. “The Meanings of Gratitude in the Narratives of Poles Saving Jews during the Holocaust.” The Journal of Holocaust Research, online first, https://doi.org/10.1080/25785648.2026.2638718.

Marta Duch-Dyngosz, Friedman, Alexander Sorkina, Ina and Magdalena Waligórska. 2025. “A History of Overwriting of Jewish Cemeteries in Postwar Poland, Ukraine and Belarus.” Holocaust Studies, 31(3): 469–497. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2024.2392323.

Marta Duch-Dyngosz and Magdalena Waligórska. 2023. “Wąskie widzenie: granice kolaboracji w świadomości świadków w procesach sierpniowych. Biłgoraj i Izbica jako studia przypadku.” Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, vol. 19: 325-354. https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.948.  

Marta Duch-Dyngosz. 2021. “W poszukiwaniu lokalnej pamięci o Zagładzie. Przypadek upamiętniania społeczności żydowskich w mniejszych miejscowościach we współczesnej Polsce.” Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, vol. 17: 435-463. doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.887.

Marta Duch-Dyngosz. 2021. “Jewish Heritage and Cultural Revival in Poland.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies. Ed. Naomi Seidman. New York: Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199840731-0213.

Marta Duch-Dyngosz. 2020. “Emplacing Vernacular Memory: Looking for the Unconscious and Affective Aspects of Collective Memory.” Rocznik Antropologii Historii, vol. X: 71-93.

Marta Duch-Dyngosz. 2016. “From Absence to Loss: Holocaust Commemoration in Present-day Poland.” Remembrance and Solidarity Studies in 20^th Century European History: Holocaust/Shoah 5, ed. Dan Michman and Matthias Weber, 115—136. https://enrs.eu/studies/studies5.

Marek Kucia, Marta Duch-Dyngosz and Mateusz Magierowski. 2013. “Anti-Semitism in Poland: Survey Results and a Qualitative Study of Catholic Communities.” Nationalities Papers, 42(1): 8—26, https://doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2013.830601.

Marek Kucia, Marta Duch-Dyngosz and Mateusz Magierowski. 2013. “Collective Memory of Auschwitz and World War II among Catholics in Poland: A Qualitative Study of Three Communities.” History and Memory, 25(2): 132—173. https://doi.org/10.2979/histmemo.25.2.132.

Book chapters

(forthcoming) Duch-Dyngosz Marta and Joanna B. Michlic, “Antisemitism in Contemporary Post-Communist Poland: Continuities, Transformations, and New Expressions.” In The Routledge Studies in Contemporary Antisemitism, ed. William Brustein and Joanna B. Michlic.

Marek Kucia, Maciej Koniewski, Katarzyna Stec, Marta Duch-Dyngosz and Sylwia Sadlik. 2025. “Polish Perceptions of Auschwitz.” In The Routledge Handbook of Auschwitz Birkenau, ed. Sarah M. Cushman, Joanne Pettitt, and Dominic Williams, 353—366. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003262848.

Marta Duch-Dyngosz. 2015. “The Revival of Jewish Life in Kraków?” In We were, we are, we will be. The Jewish community of Kraków after 1945, ed. Piotr Figiela, 150—179. Kraków: Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa.

Marta Duch-Dyngosz. 2015. “Materialne ślady trudnej przeszłości w dawnych sztetlach”. In Miejsce po. Miejsce bez, edited by Łukasz Klimek and Barbara Cisowska, 47—58. Kraków: Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa.

Marta Duch-Dyngosz. 2011. “Upamiętnianie Żydów w krajobrazie kulturowym Bobowej. „Przepracowanie pamięci?”. In Antysemityzm – Holocaust – Auschwitz w badaniach społecznych, edited by Marek Kucia, 93—113. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego.

Other, reviews

Review of Geneviève Zubrzycki’s book titled Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland's Jewish Revival, The Polish Review. (2025). 70 (2): 162–165, https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.70.2.22.

Marta Duch Dyngosz. 2020. Polyphonie des Holocaust:Stimmen zur Erinnerungskultur, edited by Maria Anna Potocka, 53-56. Kraków: Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej w Krakowie MOCAK.