Associate Professor Dominik Ziarkowski, PHD

Scientific achievement in discipline culture and religion studies.

Research interests

Early modern and 19th century art, artistic historiography, history of tourism and recreation, protection of cultural property and landscape, the role of cultural heritage in tourism.

Functions performed

Member of KUE Management Faculty Council (2016–2020)

Secretary of the Program Committee for Tourism and Recreation (2016–2020)

Secretary of the Program and Didactic Team for Tourism and Recreation (2020–present)

Supervisor of student internships in Tourism and Recreation (2008–2010)

Tutor of Tourism and Recreation (2020–present)

Member of the Scientific Council of the Ojców National Park (2015–2019)

Member of the Editorial Board of the Prądnik. Works and Materials of the Museum of Prof. Władysław Szafer (2019–present)

Scientific activity

• Author and co-author of over 80 scientific publications including five independent monographs (among others Castles in the Krakow-Częstochowa Upland. Problems with conservation and accessible to tourists, Proksenia, Kraków 2014; Old Russian architecture in Giacomo Quarenghi’s watercolours, Polish Institute of World Art Studies and Tako Publishing House, Warsaw – Toruń 2015; Tourist guidebooks and their significance for the popularization of the findings in the sphere of Polish art historiography until the end of the 19th century, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2021);
• Principal investigator of an independent National Science Center grant (OPUS 13, project 2017/25/B/HS3/00041, 2018–2021);
• Head of four individual grants for young scientists and participants of doctoral studies, financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2013–2017);
• Team member in eight projects conducted by the Department of Tourism as part of statutory research (2009–2017);
• Co-implementer of the project Management of cultural and natural heritage of the Polish-Slovak borderland co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund under the INTERREG V-A Poland-Slovakia Cross-Border Cooperation Program 2014-2020;
• Member of the Association of Art Historians;
• Member of the Polish Institute of World Art Studies;
• Winner of a scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists (2016);
• Reviewer in many scientific journal, including Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Rocznik Biblioteki Naukowej PAU i PAN, Studia Polonijne, Turyzm, Studia i Materiały Lubelskie, Folia Turistica, Prądnik. Prace i Materiały Muzeum im. Prof. Władysława Szafera; Reviewer of scientific projects submitted to the National Science.

 
Lectures

• Interpretation of art
• Cultural tourism
• History of tourism and recreation
• Sightseeing
• Hospitality industry
• Organization and technique of work in hotel facilities

Additionally, he is a lecturer at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University (lectures for students on the protection of cultural property) and at the Heritage Academy (postgraduate studies conducted by KUE The Malopolska School of Public Administration in cooperation with the International Cultural Center in Krakow).