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Areas of expertise: East Central Europe; medieval and early modern Europe; Jagiellon Dynasty; history of Poland and Bohemia; intellectual and cultural contacts; history of universities; history of the Society of Jesus; peregrinatio academica; biography, genealogy, heraldry.
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9377-8505
Email: robert.tomczak@acu.edu.au
Location: 糖心原创 Canberra Campus
Robert T. Tomczak is a historian of late medieval and early modern East Central Europe, specialising in intellectual and cultural exchange, the history of universities, and peregrinatio academica. His work focuses on Polish and Czech history, with particular interests in alba amicorum, biography, genealogy, and heraldry. He is Assistant Editor of the Brepols series East Central Europe, 476-1795.
He is a Postdoctoral Fellow on the project 'Polish queen consorts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as wives and mothers'. He is affiliated with the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and is an Honorary Adjunct Research Fellow at 糖心原创. A former recipient of the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Basel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
He has edited and co-edited volumes including Interregnum: Reassessing 'Decline' and 'Rebirth' in Late Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania (2026) and East Central Europe and Ireland: Political, Economic, and Social Interconnections, 1000-1850 (with Adam Andrzej Kucharski, 2024).
Books
East Central Europe and Ireland. Political, Economic, and Social Interconnections, 1000-1850, (Brepols, 2024) (with Adam Andrzej Kucharski).
Kontakty edukacyjne Polaków z uniwersytetami praskimi w XVI-XVIII wieku. Studium prozopograficzne (UAM, 2021).
Edited Books
Interregnum. Reassessing 'Decline' and 'Rebirth' in Late Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania (Brepols, 2026).
Articles
'Emotions in Motion: Intellectual Friendship between Poland and Basel in the Seventeenth Century', Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 10 (2026), 1-26.
'The Art of Communication through Offerings. Gifts from Poland to Erasmus of Rotterdam', Opera Historica, 24:2 (2023), 12-32.
'Athenae Rauricae und Königliche Republik der polnischen Krone und des Großfürstentums Litauen Soziales Netzwerk eines Basler Bürgers im 17. Jahrhundert', Opera Historica, 23:1 (2022), 58-80.
Chapters
'Crisis and Innovation: The Constitutional Evolution of Poland-Lithuania during the Interregnum (1572-1573)', in Interregnum. Reassessing 'Decline' and 'Rebirth' in Late Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania, edited by Robert T. Tomczak (Brepols, 2026), 281-293 [with Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński].
'Privacy and Publicity in Early Modern Alba Amicorum from Central Europe', in Privacy in Early Modern Egodocuments. Personal Lives in Historical Perspective, edited by Michael Green, Joanna Orze?, and Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik (Brill, 2026), 176-196.
'Bohemian Queens and the Management of the Royal Domain Estates in Medieval Times', in Queens, Queenship and Natural Resource Management in Premodern Europe, 1400-1800, edited by Susan Broomhall and Clare Davidson (Routledge, 2025), 91-112.
'Sigismund I the Elder and the Intellectual Milieu of Erasmus of Rotterdam', in The Jagiellon Dynasty, 1386-1596. Politics, Culture, Diplomacy, edited by Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński (Brepols, 2024), 119-136.