Major reseach areas:

History
History of the ancient Near East
History of the ancient Greek-Roman World (in particular the history and archaeology of the Roman Empire borderland)
History of the middle ages (general history and history of Poland)
Modern history from the 16th to the 21st century (general history and history of Poland)
History of Eastern Europe (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania)
History of Germany and the history of the Polish-German relations
History of the Balkan states
Different aspects of history of culture, of military and economic history
Methodology and theory of history
Historical sources and the auxiliary historical sciences

Art History
Symbolics of Ancient Architecture, Roman Portraits
Ancient Art of Asia
Japanese Art of Edo Period
Medieval Architecture
Medieval Iconography
Baroque Art and Music
Residentnial Architecture
Painting of the 15th-19th Centuries
Modern and Contemporary Art
Methodology and Philosophy of Art
History and Theory of Art History
Art Criticism

Musicology
The History and Theory of Music from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
History of Polish Music
History of Performance Practice
Analysis of Musical Work
Transformation of Composer's Styles
Theory and History of Opera
Ethnomusicology
Music in the Traditional Cultures
Music of National Minorities
Methodology and Theory of Musicology
Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology
Music Acoustics and Physiology of Hearing
Music as a Communication Medium
The Work of Polish Emigre Composers
Music of Slavonic Peoples
Historicism in the Musical Writing and Work of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries
Music and Fine Arts
The Musical Culture of the German-speaking Realm
Philosophy of a Musical Work

Archaeology
The Neolithic in the Baltic Sea Region
The intercultural importance of Middle Great Poland in the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age
Agriculture and farming in Northern Mesopotamia between 3,000-500 BC
History of archaeological research and the Polish gentry's scientific patronage on that subject in Great Poland in the 19th century
The Western Baltic zone in the Pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age
Stylistic studies on the La Téne Period in Poland in the light of con-tacts with the Celtic world and ancient culture
Early medieval sets of ornaments on the territory of Poland
Palace-and-chapel complex on the Ostrów Tumski in Poznań
Medieval and Modern pottery production on Great Poland territory
Settlement and building of Przeworsk culture in the Pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age
Rituals and sacrifice-places on the territory of barbaric Europe
Ex-Cistercian monastery in Bierzwnik
Theories and methods of study of past societies and their culture
Przeworsk culture in Kujawy
Lusatian culture in Kujawy in its genetic aspect
Re-evaluation of the synthesis of the prehistory of the Polish Low-lands in the light of sources unearthed along the course of a transit gas pipeline
Bio-cultural borderland between the East and West of Europe in the Stone Age and Early Metal Age
Contacts between the societies of circum-Baltic and circum-Pontic zones at the turn of the Ages
Stone in the culture of prehistoric and early historic societies of the Polish lowlands
The dynamics of social processes in the northern part of Central Europe in the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age
Trzciniec Cultural Circle (society-culture-economy)
Methods of study of past societies and their culture
Methodology and theory of prehistory
Archaeological sources
Archaeozoology

Ethnology
Theory, methodology and history of ethnology and cultural anthropology
Ethnic processes and identity problems
Patterns and values of contemporary culture in Poland and European countries
Traditional Polish folk culture
Anthropological interpretation of the cultures of developing countries

Eastern Studies
Pre-history of the borderland of the Eastern and Western part of Europe
History of the communities of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Siberia
Present ethnic changes in the Post-Soviet States
The Polish minority in the Post-Soviet States
Communities of the Post-Soviet States in the light of social sciences
Transformations of the political systems in the Post-Soviet States
The Economy of the Balkan states
Russian Art and Architecture
Russian philosophical and religious thinking