Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

dr Dorota Gregorowicz

e-mail address: dorota.gregorowicz@us.edu.pl

She was born in 1989 in Gliwice. In 2007, she started studying history at the University of Silesia in Katowice. After defending her BA thesis, she continued her education at the University of Silesia and, at the same time, at the Università degli Studi di Trento. She received both MA degrees in 2013. She defended herdoctoral dissertation entitled La Santa Sede nei confronti degli interregni nello Stato polacco-lituano della seconda metà del Cinquecento (1572–1589) in 2017 at the Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, where she was awarded the title of Doctor Europaeus.

Since 2018, she has been employed as an assistant professor at the Institute of History of the University of Silesia in Katowice, as a member of the Research Team on the History of Europe and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Early Modern Period (16th-18th centuries). She has received scholarships from the Istituto Sangalli (2015), the Lanckoroński Foundation (2016, 2019), the Foundation for Polish Science (2021), and the Minister of Education and Science (2021). Her research interests include Polish-Papal relations in the 16th and 17th centuries, the significance and organisation of the apostolic nunciature as an institution, and, more broadly, the issue of early modern political communication from the perspective of the New Diplomatic History. Historical editing plays an important role in her work. As part of the Acta Nuntiaturae Polonae series, she is responsible for publishing the records of Annibale Di Capua’s nunciature (1586–1591) and has been the Italian language specialist (for Italian) for the entire series since 2018.

She is currently leading a research project entitled The Geopolitical Specificity of the Post-Tridentine Apostolic Nunciatures (1562–1605) – A Prosopographical and Comparative Study, funded by the National Science Centre (No. 2020/39/D/HS3/00742): https://posttridentinenunciatures.com.

Most relevant publications:

1. 1. Impietas gravissima – the Warsaw Confederation in the Papal Diplomacy’s Discourse in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century, “Roczniki Humanistyczne” 71/2spec. (2023), pp. 89–108;
   2. Acta Nuntiaturae Polonae, XIII: Hannibale de Capua (1586–1591), vol. 1, Polska Akademia Umiejętności, Kraków 2023;
   3. The Audiences of Apostolic Nuncios at the Court of Polish Vasas (1587–1668), in: Monarchie und Diplomatie Handlungsoptionen und Netzwerke am Hof Sigismunds III. Wasa, hg. O. Hegedüs, K. Lichy, Brill-Schöningh, Paderborn 2023, pp. 224–249;
   4. The 'Obstacle of Sex’. Christina of Sweden and Her Aspirations to the Polish-Lithuanian Throne, “Gender & History” 35/1 (2023), pp. 68–84;
   5. Una protezione ben accetta? La nobiltà polacco-lituana nei confronti dell’impegno pontificio nelle elezioni dei re (1572–1587), “Archivum Historiae Pontificiae” 55 (2021), pp. 123–148;
   6. Diplomats and diplomacy in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ed. by D. Gregorowicz, A. Boccolini, Settecittà, Viterbo 2021;
   7. Audiencja publiczna nuncjusza apostolskiego Galeazza Marescottiego na sejmie elekcyjnym 1669 r. Znaczenie i ceremoniał, “Res Historica” 52 (2021), pp. 109–140;
   8. The Polish-Lithuanian Interregna and Papal Diplomacy, in: Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe, ed. by R. Anderson, C. Backerra, Routledge, London 2021, pp. 11–39;
   9. La Santa Sede nei confronti dell’istituzione della libera elezione nello Stato polacco-lituano della seconda metà del XVI secolo, “Rivista Storica Italiana” CXXXI/3 (2019), pp. 812–846;
   10. Tiara w grze o koronę. Stolica Apostolska wobec wolnych elekcji w Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów w drugiej połowie XVI w., Polska Akademia Umiejętności, Kraków 2019.