He studied History at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, graduating with honours in 2004. At the same time, he also studied History at Collegium Invisibile with Prof. Leszek Zasztowt and a year as a student of Ukrainian Philology at his native Alma Mater. After four years of Ph.D. studies at the Jagiellonian University, he was awarded a doctorate in 2008. He then held an Assistant and, in 2010, an Associate Professorship. In 2025, he received a Full Professorship. Between 2021 and 2023, he was also the Director of the Archives of Science of the Polish Academy of Science and the Polish Academy of Science and Arts in Kraków.
He was on leave from JU in 2015-16 as a Visiting Professor at Daemen College, Amherst, NY (USA), with which he has long cooperated. He was also a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York, NY (Winter semester 2012-13) and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (Spring semester 2017-18). He is a recipient of a joint scholarship of the Kosciuszko Foundation and the Piłsudski Institute of America (2019-25), the Josef Dobrovsky Fellowship of the Czech Academy of Science (2022), the Kosciuszko Foundation Grantee (2012-13, 2017-18), and the Fulbright Scholar (2015-16).
He has edited the journal Rocznik Przemyski since 2011 (as editor-in-chief) and is a member of the editorial board of several scholarly periodicals, including Krakowskie Pismo Kresowe, Pilar. Časopis za društvene i humanističke studije (Zagreb, Croatia) and З історії західноукраїнських земель (Lviv, Ukraine).
Professor Pudłocki's research focuses on the socio-cultural history of Galicia, the history of women, intellectual history, and, most recently, migration history. He is the author of over one hundred fifty scholarly publications, including monographs, edited volumes, and articles and chapters in refereed journals and collections. He is also a freelance journalist cooperating with the Przemyśl and New York City Polonia local press.
Selected publications:
A Taste of Poland in Interwar Manhattan: The Life and Death of the Polish Institute of Art and Culture, in: Poles, Polonia, and the Quest for Liberty, ed. John S. Micgiel, New York - London 2025, pp. 111-132.
Ego documents as sources for musical activities in the Galician High School, 1867-1914, "Studien zur Musikwissenschaft - Beihefte der Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich", 2024, Band 62: Musical practice in the long Nineteenth Century. Unknown ego documents from Central Europe, eds. Lili Veronika Békéssy, Martin Eybl Gesa Finke, pp. 137-154
Ecclesia, Nation or Kaiser? The Catholic Church in Austrian Galicia before 1914, w: Intellectual History and Culture Wars in Central and Eastern Europe in the Light of Modern Theories of Religion, eds. Bojan Žalec, Stjepan Štivić, Berlin - Münster, serie: Theology East - West. European Perspective, vol. 34, 2024, pp. 169-180.
Szekspir i Polska. Życie Władysława Tarnawskiego (1885-1951), Rzeszów - Warszawa 2023.
"Propaganda is much more difficult in countries with older and higher cultures. [.] England is particularly difficult terrain". Poland's public relations in Great Britain and the United States, 1918-1939, in: Communications, Audiences, and Strategies. Past Experience and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. C.-S. Dogaru, Lausanne - Berlin 2023, pp. 161-182.
The World of Czech Intellectuals in the Life of Roman Dyboski, "Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis" vol. 53, 2023, no. 2, pp. 107-129.
Power and Entertainment in the Shade of General Anton von Galgótzy - the Contribution of Military Music to the Cultural Life of the Przemyśl Fortress (1891-1905), "Musica Olomucensia" vol. 35, 2023, issue 1, pp. 27-47.