Mary and Frank Padzieski Chair in Polish and Polish American History
About
Anna Müller is Professor of History and the Mary and Frank Padzieski Chair in Polish and Polish American History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, specializing in 20th-century Eastern European history with a focus on gender, memory, and the Polish-Jewish experience. At Dearborn, she also serves as Director of the Honors Program. She earned her Ph.D. in History from Indiana University and holds dual M.A. degrees in History and Political Science from the University of Gdańsk, Poland. Between 2010 and 2013, she worked as a curator at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, where she was responsible for the exhibits on the concentration camps and the Holocaust. She is President of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) and serves on the Board of the Polish American Historical Association.
She is the author of If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women’s Prison in Communist Poland and An Ordinary Life?. The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918–1996 (Ohio University Press, 2022).
