Leszek Zasztowt (born February 25, 1953, in Olsztyn) is a Polish historian and professor at the University of Warsaw.
[1] Since 1998 he has been employed by the Centre for East European Studies of the University of Warsaw.
He is a chairman of the scientific council of the Polish Academy of Sciences Archives in Warsaw.
[4] He was a J. William Fulbright scholar at the University of California in Berkeley (1999/2000),[5] and received a British Academy scholarship in 1988.
[citation needed]He is also a member of scholarly commission of the Research Centre for the History of East Europe (Czech Academy of Sciences)[6] His research concerns the history of East Central Europe and Russia since the 19th to the 20th century, especially the issues embracing political, social, confessional, educational, academic and scholarly life.