Joanna Beata Michlic is a Polish social and cultural historian specializing in Polish-Jewish history and the Holocaust in Poland.
[5] In 2000 she was awarded a PhD, also by the University of London, for a thesis entitled "Ethnic nationalism and the myth of the threatening other: The case of Poland and perceptions of its Jewish minority from the late nineteenth century to the modern period".
[7] In 2001–2002 she was a research postdoctoral fellow at Yad Vashem, again studying children during the Holocaust and "The Sociological Reconstruction of Daily Life Experience".
[8] Michlic joined Lehigh University as an associate professor of history, and served as chair of the Holocaust and Ethical Values Studies program.
[12] As part of that study, she examined unpublished correspondence between Jewish Holocaust survivors, rescuers and their families, and discussed the Polish myth of the "ungrateful Jew", a narrative that emerged in post-communist Poland.