He cooperates with the monthly Wpis regularly and is one of the main authors of the publishing house Biały Kruk.

Due to his expertise in history and modern politics he is a frequent guest of radio programs and talk-shows.

[2] Between 1980 and 1988 Andrzej Nowak was involved in anti-Communist journalistic and educational activities, publishing many articles in so-called underground magazines, such as Arka, Miesięcznik Małopolski, Alternatywy, Tumult.

He also participated in a system of alternative lectures of history for workers organized during the martial law in Poland by the catholic priest Kazimierz Jankowski in Krakow-Nowa Huta (Christian University for Workers) and in the so called Free Jagiellonian University.

After that he concentrated on his academic career and transferred to the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (since 1991) and then to the Jagiellonian University (since 2004).