NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Agata Fijalkowski

Agata Fijalkowski is a Reader at Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University, UK. Agata completed her Ph.D. at the University of London. She has published widely in the field of transitional justice and is concerned with the (mal)administration of justice in former Communist states, in the immediate post-WW2 period.

Agata has vast experience in archival work and has researched in Albania, Germany, Poland, Romania, and the UK. Her work is distinctly interdisciplinary, including an exhibition on the Albanian writer Musine Kokalari (1917-1983) at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford that involved the production of a short, ‘arty’ film,  An Unsung Hero: Musine Kokalari (2017).

Agata is pursuing an MA (p/t) in Screenwriting at Leeds Beckett University. During the EHRI Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD), Agata will investigate ‘Dutch Judicial Responses to German Crimes’.