Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

dr hab. Sławomir Dryja, prof. UPJP2
Pontifical John Paul II University in Kraków, Poland

He is an archaeologist and historian by training. He has conducted archaeological research on castles in Rabsztyn, Bobolice and Mirów (Poland), as well as on the Main Square in Krakow (he is co-author of the concept of the “Underground Market” exhibition in Museum of Krakow). Moreover, he is the head of the Center for the Historical Brewing Research, which cooperates with many institutions at home and abroad, as well as breweries (including Wawrzyniec Brewery, Nowotarska Manufaktura Piwa, Połczyn-Zdrój Brewery). His academic output includes many articles and books on the history of brewing. He is a founding member of the Polish Association of Home Brewers. He is also a member of several foreign associations of brewing historians and enthusiasts, such as Gesellschaft für Geschichte des Brauwesens e.V. and Brewery History Society. Member of the editorial board of the journals Folia Historica Cracoviensia and Staleta Praha.

 

Secretary

mgr Bartłomiej Karnasiewicz
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland

He was born in Wloclawek and is currently a doctoral student at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. The topic of his doctoral dissertation is "Piwa dobrze zrobione, tuczne i wystałe. Renoma i lokalność piwa w Rzeczpospolitej w II poł. XVIII w." [Beers Well-Made, Fattened and Lagered: The Reputation and Locality of Beer in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Second Half of the 18th Century), with Professor Jaroslaw Dumanowski as his promoter. He is a home brewer, focusing on modern adaptations of Old Polish brewing recipes.

 

Editorial Board

Dorota Dias-Lewandowska
Polish Academy of Sciences

She is a researcher of the discourse of drunkenness and sobriety. She is an author of numerous publications and research articles including the monograph "Historia kulturowa wina francuskiego w Polsce, od połowy XVII wieku do początku XIX wieku" [Cultural History of French Wine in Poland, from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century], an organizer of international scientific conferences and a manager of grant projects.

 

Jarosław Dumanowski
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland

He is a historian specializing in the history of food. He is a director of the Center for Culinary Heritage at NCU and an originator and editor of the "Monumenta Poloniae Culinaria" book series published by the King John III Palace Museum in Wilanow (Poland). His research interests include: cultural history of food and alcohol, history of cuisine, culinary literature, dietetics, fasting and food fads. Prof. Dumanowski is a recognized popularizer of knowledge about ancient cuisine and organizer of historical and culinary events. He works with restaurateurs, chefs, teachers of gastronomy, food producers and tourism organizers.

 

Petr Holub
National Heritage Institute, Brno, Czech Republic

He is an archaeologist and heritage conservator. He has devoted his entire career to the archaeology of medieval and modern Brno, specializing in building materials. He has an active interest in the history of brewing, especially in relation to the city of Brno and the Central European context, but also in the development of architecture and changes in technological processes in the Czech brewing industry in the 19th century. He is currently employed as a conservationist at the National Heritage Institute in Brno (Národní památkovy ústavu, Územní odborné pracoviště v Brně). In addition to numerous research articles, he has co-authored several monographs, including: "99 Brněnských cihelen", "Noback vs. Novák: stavitelé pivovarů" and "Příběh Dalešického piva."

 

Dobiesław Karst
Museum of the Old Merchants, Świdnica, Poland

He is a director of the Museum of the Old Merchants in Świdnica and an archaeologist by training. His research interests include the development of medieval urban centers, their buildings, as well as their craft and commercial infrastructure, visible through material culture, grasped in interdisciplinary studies, based primarily on archaeological and architectural research. He is particularly involved in analyzing the phenomenon of medieval communal cities, basing their economy on beer production. This phenomenon is particularly evident in medieval Central Europe, especially in what are now the lands of Poland and the Czech Republic. He was a pioneer in the archaeological study of the equipment and systems used in urban brewing in the medieval and early modern periods. He is an author of several articles on the history of beer, including in Wroclaw, or Świdnica, famous for its brewing, as well as a reviewer of several books related to the history of brewing on Polish soil.

 

Andrzej Klonder
Polish Academy of Sciences

He is employed at the Institute of History and International Relations of the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, where he heads the Department of Cultural History. His research interests include: standards and norms of behavior in various environments, social and cultural factors in the history of Polish art, everyday life of the Polish nobility in the 16th-18th centuries, and issues of food and the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Professor Klonder is an author of numerous books and research articles, including: "Napoje fermentacyjne w Prusach Królewskich w XVI-XVII wieku" [Fermentation Beverages in Royal Prussia in the 16th-17th Centuries], "Browarnictwo w Prusach Królewskich: (2 połowa XVI-XVII w.)" [Brewing in Royal Prussia: 2nd Half of the 16th-17th Centuries), or "Wszystka spuścizna w Bogu spoczywającego: Majątek ruchomy zwykłych mieszkańców Elbląga i Gdańska w XVII wieku" [All Legacy in God Rests: The Movable Property of Ordinary Residents of Elblag and Gdansk in the 17th Century].

 

Agata Kwaśnicka-Janowicz
Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland

She is employed in the Department of History of Language and Dialectology of Faculty of Polish Studies. She is a graduate of Polish philology from Jagiellonian University. On the basis of her dissertation "Polsko-ukraińskie związki leksykalne w zakresie obrzędowości wiejskiej w gwarach okolic Przemyśla" [Polish-Ukrainian Lexical Relationships in the Field of Rural Rituals in the Dialects of the Przemyśl Area], defended at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University in 2003, she received a doctoral degree. In 2018, she published a monograph "Staropolska terminologia bartnicza" [Old Polish Beekeeping Terminology] on the basis of which she received a postdoctoral degree in 2019. Prof. Kwasnicka-Janowicz is an author of many monographs and research articles. She is a member of the Polish Linguistic Society (the Review Committee for the term 2022-2025). Since 2013 she has been active in the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Museum of the Polish Language. Her research interests focus on the history of language, semantics, historical-comparative linguistics and computational and corpus linguistics.

 

Libor Zajíc
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

He was born in 1991 in Uherské Hradiště. He is a Czech historian, working on church history in the Middle Ages, saints' cults, relics, pilgrimages, religious orders, but also on the history of brewing, beer culture, and pubs. He is a member of the expert panel for the registration of beer culture in the Czech Republic on the List of Intangible Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

 

Martin Nodl
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praga

He is a recognized specialist in medieval history. From 1988 to 1995, he studied history at Charles University in Prague, where he defended his thesis “Stříbro 1380-1420. Populace-migrace-integrace.” From 2011 to 2013, he completed his doctoral studies at Masaryk University in Brno, where he defended his dissertation on the Kutná Hora decree. He works at the Center for Medieval Studies of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and also teaches at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University. He focuses on the late Middle Ages, especially social and cultural history, as well as the history of historiography. He is a member of many scientific associations. His extensive body of work includes works related to the history of malting and brewing.

 

Greg Ryan
Lincoln University, New Zeland

He is a researcher in Department of Tourism, Sport and Society. He is heavily involved in national and international research in the sub-disciplines of sports history and the social history of alcohol in New Zealand. His work challenges historians who interpret both sport and alcohol through preconceived historiographical lenses. He is widely recognized as a leader in developing the discipline of sports history in New Zealand, while he is currently developing a similar niche in alcohol history. His work is based on extensive archival research in New Zealand and overseas. He is editor-in-chief of The International Journal of the History of Sport and serves on the editorial boards and as a reviewer for other leading international journals in his research field. He is a member of the Australian Society for the History of Sport. In 2023, he published a comprehensive history of beer and brewing in New Zealand.

 

Marcin Szymański
University of Łódź, Poland

Assistant Professor in the Department of Recent Polish History of Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Lodz. He is a historian with a passion for economic relations in Poland, with a particular focus on Lodz. He has twice been awarded the prize for the Best Book about Lodz in the "Złoty Ekslibris" [Golden Bookplate] competition of the Marszałek Józef Piłsudski Provincial Public Library in Lodz. An important part of his academic achievements are articles and books on the history of brewing. Dr. Szymanski is a former employee of the Museum of the City of Lodz, where he used the opportunity to present unknown aspects of the history of his hometown by organizing exhibitions.

 

Marek Zdaniewicz
University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland

He is a researcher in Department of Fermentation Technology and Microbiology of Faculty of Food Technology at the Agricultural University in Krakow, as well as the manager of the university's mini-brewery. He is the author of many research articles on brewing technology. In one of the grant programs, he was involved in developing beer production technology using Polish forgotten hop varieties. An important aspect of his research is cooperation with breweries, so that the results of scientific work can be translated into everyday brewing practice.