Komitet Nauk Historycznych (KNH) is the Polish national historical committee representing the Polish historians and elected by all historians holding the higher academic degree (habilitation). The Committee is supported by the Polish Academy of Sciences and charged with the cooperation with the International Committee of Historical Sciences. The Committee discusses and formulates opinions mainly on general problems, directions and organization of the historical research, on popularization of historical science, and on the social and professional status of historians working in all institutions on all the levels.
The Board of the Committee:
Chairman
Prof. Tomasz Schramm (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu)
Vice-Chairmen
Prof. Cezary Kuklo (Uniwersytet w Białymstoku)
Prof. Krzysztof Mikulski (Uniwersytet im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu)
Board Members
Prof. Beata Możejko (Uniwersytet Gdański)
Prof. Rafał Wnuk (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II w Lublinie)
Secretary
Prof. Małgorzata Karpińska (Uniwersytet Warszawski)
The following specialized Commissions, grouping historians interested in particular problems or historical periods, are attached to the Committee:
Commission for the history of Czech Lands and Polish-Czech Relations
Commission for the history of the Renaissance and Reformation
Commission for Historical Geography
Commission for the History of Women
Commissionfor the History of Book and Libraries
Commission for the History of Culture
Commission for Urban History
Commission for the Comparative History of Christianity
Commission for the History of International Relations
Commission for the History of the Military
Commission for the History of Ancient Lithuania
Commission for the Auxiliary Sciences of History and Editing of Historical Sources
Commission for the Numismatics
Commission for History Didactics
Commission for Public History
Commission for the Slavonic Historical Studies
Under the aegis of Committee two periodicals are published: Acta Poloniae Historica (in co-operation with the Institute of History, in English), and Numismatic News (edited by our Commission for Numismatics).