Alexandra Richie is the Wladyslaw Bartoszewski Chair co-chair and she teaches History and International Studies at the Collegium Civtas University, Warsaw, Poland. She is the author of Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin which was named one of top ten books of the year by American Publisher’s Weekly and Warsaw 1944 which won the Newsweek Teresa Torańska Prize for best non-fiction book of 2014.