Dr Katarzyna Nowak is a historian specialising in cultural and social history of the early Cold War and the author of Kingdom of Barracks: Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria.

She is currently working on her book project Knocking on the Vatican’s Gates. Refugees, the Holy See, and the Spectre of Communism, 1945-1958  as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Vienna.

Research interests:

• Cold War

• Population displacement

• Refugee studies

• Soviet and Eastern European history

• Intellectual history of communism and anti-communism

• The Vatican and the origins of the Cold War