ABOUT YOURSELF
Born in Biała Podlaska. Graduated from the High School in Terespol n/Bug. Graduate of history at the Faculty of Humanities of UMCS (1984) and political science at the Intercollegiate Institute of Political Sciences of UMCS (1985). In 1990, Professor Trembicka obtained the degree of Doctor of Humanities. In 2002, she received the Team Award of the Minister of National Education and Sport for her contribution to the preparation of a synthesis of Polish political thought. In 2004, she obtained the post-doctoral degree (habilitation) in the humanities in the field of political science. The monograph being the basis for obtaining the post-doctoral degree „The Round Table in Poland. A Study on Political Agreement” (UMCS Publishing House, Lublin 2003) received the Individual Award of the Minister of National Education and Sport (2005) and was nominated for the Jerzy Giedroyc Award, established by the Senate of UMCS in Lublin. In 2014, she obtained the academic title of professor of social sciences. He is the editor of Annales UMCS. Sectio Balcaniensis et Carpathiensis”, member of the Editorial Committee of the journals „Myśl Polityczna. Political Thought” and „Teoria Polityki”.
PUBLIC ACTIVITIES
Director of the Sejm Research Bureau (2019-2021), Deputy Director of the Sejm Research Bureau (2017-2018).
Expert of the Chancellery of the Sejm (2017); Member of the team of experts of the Marshal of the Sejm (2018-2020), Member of the team of experts of the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee (2021-2022);
Expert of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for the assessment of grant applications under the program "Monuments of Polish philosophical, theological and social thought of the 20th and 21st centuries" (2016);
Member of the Council of the Public Opinion Research Center (2018-2020, from 2022);
Member of the Disciplinary Committee of the second instance for scientific and research and technical employees of institutes at the Minister of Education and Science (2021-2022);
Chairwoman of the Advisory Team at the Minister of Education and Science for the program „Development of scientific journals” (2022).
NAGRODY AWARDS
Team Award of the Minister of National Education and Sport (2002)
Individual Award of the Minister of National Education and Sport (2005)
Nomination for the Jerzy Giedroyc Award, established by the Senate of UMCS in Lublin (2005)
Individual Award of the Minister of Education and Science for a significant achievement in the field of implementation activities (2022)
The Rector's Awards: 1991, 1995, 2014, 2017, 2020, 2022
Decorations
Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2022)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
political thought, foreign policy of the Republic of Poland, political institutions, totalitarian political system, systemic and political transformations of Central and Eastern European countries; political theory; public administration
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
Research grants
2022-2023 Project of the Foundation of the Polish Academy of Sciences under the program of the Minister of Education and Science under the name "Science for Society" - Disputes in the 21st century about Polish foreign policy. Interpretations of raison d'état; Project manager
Scientific cooperation
Institute of National Remembrance
Scientific conferences
Poznań July 5-6, 2022
National scientific conference „Theoretical political science in Poland, Balance of the 50th anniversary”. Faculty of Political Science and Journalism UAM in Poznań
Vilnius, September 21-22, 2022
International Musicology Conference devoted to the musical heritage of the 17th-19th centuries. Opening of the Institute of Polish National Heritage; presentation of a paper – „Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine - common heritage of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Between apology and negation. A study of the political thought of the Communist Party of Poland in the years 1918-1932, UMCS Publishing House, Lublin 1995.
Typology of security systems in the 19th and 20th centuries, UMCS Publishing House, Lublin 1996. (co-author W. Paruch).
Visions and Realities: Studies on the Implementation of Polish Political Thought of the 20th Century, ed. W. Paruch, K. Trembicka, UMCS Publishing House, Lublin 2002.
Round Table in Poland. A study on political agreement, UMCS Publishing House, Lublin 2003.
Between utopia and reality. Political thought of the Communist Party of Poland (1918-1938), UMCS Publishing House, Lublin 2007.
The world around the Republic of Poland: Foreign issues in Polish political thought in the first half of the 20th century, ed. W. Paruch, K. Trembicka, UMCS Publishing House, Lublin 2007.
Independence – dependence – sovereignty. Foreign issues in the latest Polish political thought, ed. W. Paruch, K. Trembicka, UMCS Publishing House, Lublin 2007.
Enemies in the political thought of the Polish United Workers' Party, UMCS Publishing House, Lublin 2013.
Survey: „1989 - the "great transformation" of the communist system and the Soviet empire - from the perspective of a quarter of a century”, „Arcana” 2014, No. 7, p. 126-130.
Europe in the face of contemporary threats: selected issues, ed. K. Trembicka, B. Petrecka, K. Rejman, PWSTE Publishing House, Jarosław 2016.
Moderator, II Debate of the scientific journal „Political Thought” entitled Eastern policy in contemporary Polish political thought, „Myśl Polityczna. Political Thought” 2020, No. 4(5), p. 81-126.