Dr. phil. Mag. rer. soc. oec. Jan Jakub Surman

Education

• 2007–2012: PhD History, University of Vienna, Vienna
• 2003–2007: Mag. phil., History, University of Vienna, Vienna
• 2001–2006: Mag. rer. soc. oec., Sociology, University of Vienna, Vienna

Research Interests

• Political-historical epistemology;
• history of Central and Eastern Europe;
• history of post-Soviet scientific transformation;
• history of history.

Research Projects

• Czech Academy of Sciences: Lumina quaeruntur: “Images of science” in Czechoslovakia 1918–1945–1968: https://imagesofscience.wordpress.com/ (Principal Investigator)
• Czech Science Foundation (CSF): Czechoslovak-Polish Scholarly Entanglements in the Cold War Between High Politics and Individual Strategies (Principal Investigator)

Teaching Practice

• University of Vienna
• University of Frankfurt

Membership in Editorial Boards

• Prace Komisji Historii Nauki PAU / Studia Historiae Scientiarum (since 2015)
• Nauka Polska: Jej potrzeby, organizacja i rozwój (since 2016)
• Dějiny věd a techniky (since 2017)
• Práce z dějin Akademie věd (since 2018)

Foreign Scholarships, Fellowships and Research Stays

• 10/2017–8/2020: Visiting Researcher, Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• 10/2017–2/2018: Junior Research Fellow, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna
• 4/2017–9/2017: Fellow, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt
• 3/2015: Visiting Researcher, The Program in History of Science at Princeton University
• 5/2014–3/2017: Postdoctoral researcher, Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association, Marburg,
• 1/2014–3/2014: Research Fellow, German Historical Institute, Warsaw
• 10/2012–10/2013: Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellow, Herder-Institute Marburg
• 4/2012–5/2012: Post-Doc Fellow, Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational Contexts
• 3/2011–8/2011: Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Department I
• 10/2010–2/2011: Visiting Scholar, Instytut Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Nauk (Institute for History of Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
• 10/2009–7/2010: CAS/BMWF Research Fellow, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota
• 2/2008–6/2008: MOEL Scholarship (Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft) 
• 3/2007–9/2009: PhD Scholarship at the Initiativkolleg “Sciences in historical Context”, Vienna
• 7/2006–2/2007: Erasmus Scholarship (Paris IV, Sorbonne)

Publications

Publication list at MIA CAS in ASEP: here

Most Important Publications

Books

• Surman, Jan. Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space, West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2018. ISBN 9781557538611, 9781557538376

Articles in Impacted Journals

• Surman, Jan. Epidemic fatigue? The flu epidemic of 1926–1927 in Czechoslovakia, Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, accepted for publication.
• Surman, Jan. The Quest for the Language of Socialist Modernisation: (Re)writing Ukrainian Scientific Language in the Long 1920s, Contemporary European History. Published online first (2025), pp. 1–19.
• Surman, Jan. Between Science and Architecture: Exhibiting Science and Technology in Interwar Europe, Perspectives on Science 33 (2025), no. 2, pp. 127–157.
• Surman, Jan – Pavlíček. Tomáš W. The Formal and the Informal in the History of Socialist Scholarly Interconnectedness in East Central Europe, NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 32 (2024), no. 2, pp. 137–166.
• Surman, Jan. K istorii «nauki men’šinstv», Neprikosnovennyj zapas 154 (2024), no. 2, pp. 135–137.
• Surman, Jan. Stýkání a proplétání středoevropské vědy, Práce z dějin Akademie věd 15 (2023), no. 1, pp. 1–26.
• Surman, Jan – Rossman, Ella. New dissidence in contemporary Russia: Students, feminism and new ethics, New Perspectives 30 (2022), no. 1, pp. 27–46.
• Surman, Jan. Imperial Science in Central and Eastern Europe. Histories 2 (2022) no. 3, pp. 352–361.
• Surman, Jan. Localising Credibility: Julian Ochorowicz’s experiment with Euspia Palladino and the crisis of Warsaw Positivism, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 58 (2022): pp. 24–41.
• Surman, Jan – Petushkova, Daria. Between Westernization and Traditionalism: Central and Eastern European Academia during the Transformation in the 1990s. Studia Historiae Scientiarum 21 (2022), pp. 435–483.
• Surman, Jan. Julian Ochorowicz's experiments with Eusapia Palladino 1894: The temporality of mass media and the crisis of local credibility. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 58 (2022), pp. 24–41.
• Surman, Jan. Productive marginalities: The history of science in/about Poland since 1989. Centaurus, An International Journal for the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects 63 (2021), pp. 569–584.
• Surman, Jan – Pleshkov, Alexei. Book reviews in the history of knowledge. Studia Historiae Scienfiarum 20 (2021), pp. 629–650.
• Cain, Friedrich – Kleeberg, Bernhard – Hüchtker, Dietlind – Reichenbach, Karin – Surman, Jan. Introduction: Scientific Authority and the Politics of Science and History in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte / History of Science and Humanities 44 (2021), pp. 339–351.
• Surman, Jan. Terminology between chemistry and philology: A Polish interdisciplinary debate in 1900? Centaurus, An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects 61 (2019), pp. 232–253.
• Surman, Jan. Science and Terminology between Empires: Ukrainian Science in a search for its Language in the 19th century. History of Science 57 (2019), no. 2, pp. 260–287.
• Surman, Jan. University Scandals and the Public Sphere of Imperial Austria: Wahrmund and Zimmermann Affairs, European Review of History/ Revue europeenne d’histoire 26 (2019), no. 3, pp. 428–452.
• Surman, Jan. Wissenschaft als Übersetzung? Translation und Wandel polnischsprachiger Wissenschaft in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Eine Einfuhrung. Zeitschrift fur Ostmitteleuropaforschung (2016), no. 4, pp. 484–506.
• Surman, Jan. Übersetzung der Dialektik: Polnische nationale Philosophie von August Cieszkowski und Bronisław Trentowski als Übersetzung des deutschen Idealismus. Zeitschrift fur Ostmitteleuropaforschung 65 (2015), no. 4, pp. 531–550.
• Surman, Jan. The Circulation of Scientific Knowledge in the Late Habsburg Monarchy: Multicultural Perspectives on Imperial Scholarship. Austrian History Yearbook 46 (2015), pp. 397–398.
• Surman, Jan. Paris–Wien–St. Petersburg oder Alger–Brno–Charkiv?: Wissenstransfer und die ‚composite states‘. Quaestio Rossica 3 (2015), no. 3, pp. 98–118.
• Surman, Jan – Straner, Katalin – Haslinger, Peter. Introduction: Nomadic Concepts. Biological Concepts and Their Careers beyond Biology. Contributions to the History of Concepts 9 (2014), no. 2, pp. 1–17.
• Surman, Jan – Straner, Katalin – Haslinger, Peter. Nomadic Concepts in Biology,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 48 B (2014), pp. 127–129.
• Surman, Jan. Центральноєвропейська історіографія і її постколоніальні повороти (postcolonial turns): русини, українці і міраж польської „цивілізації”,Схід-Захід. Історико-культурологічний збірник 16–17 (2012), pp. 232–246. (Translation: Iaroslava Kravchenko)
• Surman, Jan. Symbolism, communication and cultural hierarchy. Galician discourses of language hegemony at the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century. Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 42 (2012), pp. 151–174.
  • Polish translation: Symbolizm, komunikacja i hierarchia kultur: Galicyjski dyskurs hegemonii językowej początku drugiej połowy XIX wieku. Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 42 (2012), pp. 115–132.
• Surman, Jan – Kaps, Klemens. Postcolonial or Post-colonial? Post(-)colonial Perspectives on Habsburg Galicia, Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 42 (2012), pp. 7–35.
  • Polish translation: (with Klemens Kaps) Galicja postkolonialna czy postkolonialnie? Postcolonial theory pomiędzy przymiotnikiem a przysłowkiem. Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 42 (2012), pp. 7–27.
• Surman, Jan. Supranational? Die habsburgischen Universitaten im Spannungsfeld zwischen „republique des lettres“ und „republique des nations“. Kulturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuchs „Moderne“ 4 (2008), pp. 213–224.
• Surman, Jan. Imperial, Kolonial, Hegemonial? Die Wissenschaften in der Habsburger-monarchie. Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit 9 (2009), no. 2, pp. 119–133.

Book Chapters

• Surman, Jan. “The Making of a Western Socialist Scholar: J. D. Bernal in Eastern Europe,” in: Adela Hîncu, Stefan Baghiu, Alex Cistelecan, and Christian Ferencz-Flatz (eds.) Situated Marxism: Theoretical Practices in State Socialist Europe, Amsterdam: Central European University Press, 2026, pp. 227–247.
• Surman, Jan. Internationality in Nauka Polska: Infrastructure, Translation, Language, in: Friedrich Cain, Bernhard Kleeberg (eds.), A New Organon. Science Studies in Interwar Poland. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024, pp. 33–51.
• Surman, Jan. Re-connecting Central European Science: An Introduction, in: Jan Surman et al. (ed.). Science Interconnected: German-Polish Scholarly Entanglements in Modern History, Marburg: Verlag Herder Institut, 2022, pp. 1–36.
• Surman, Jan. Science Interconnected: German-Polish Scientific Entanglements in Newer History, in: Jan Surman et al. (ed.). Science Interconnected: German-Polish Scholarly Entanglements in Modern History, Marburg: Verlag Herder Institut, 2022, pp. 37–82.
• Surman, Jan Translating Positivism: Framing Positivism in Book Series in Czech and Polish, in: Jan Suman, Rocio G. Sumillera, Katharina Kuhn (eds.), Translation in Knowledge, Knowledge in Translation, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020, pp. 145–168.
• Surman, Jan Habsburg Education in the eyes of foreigners: Ludwik Tęgoborski and William Wilde, in: Jan Arend (ed.). Science and Empire in Eastern Europe: Imperial Russia and the Habsburg Monarchy in the 19th Century. Gottingen: V&R, 2020, pp. 55–76.
• Surman, Jan How Romance Studies Shaped the Ukrainian Language and How the Ukrainian-Romanian Conflict Helped to Create Ladinian: A (Very) Entangled History of A-Political Science, in: Anil Bhatti, Johannes Feichtinger, Cornelia Hulmbauer (eds.) How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making: Interaction, Circulation and the Transgression of Cultural Difference. New York: Springer, 2020, pp. 73–90.
• Surman, Jan Eine Wissenschaft – eine Sprache? Nationalismus, Internationalismus und Übersetzung in den Wissenschaften in der Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918, in: Aleksandra Nuč, Michaela Wolf (eds.). Das habsburgische Babylon, 1848–1918. Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2020, pp. 84–98.
• (with Johannes Feichtinger, Marianne Klemun, Petra Svatek) Wandlungen und Bruche. Wissenschaftsgeschichte als politische Geschichte: Einleitung, in: Johannes Feichtinger, Marianne Klemun, Petra Svatek, Jan Surman (eds.), Wandlungen und Bruche. Wissenschaftsgeschichte als politische Geschichte. Gottingen, V&R, 2018, pp. 13–20.
• Surman, Jan. Peregrinatio Medica. Mobilitat von Medizinern in den Jahren 1848–1914 und die Konstruktion einer Hauptstadtuniversität: Medizin und Wissenschaft in Wien 1848–1955, in: Daniela Angetter, Birgit Nemec, Herbert Posch, Christiane Druml und Paul Weindling (eds.), Strukturen und Netzwerke. Medizin und Wissenschaft in Wien 1848–1955. Vienna University Press | V & R unipress, 2018, pp.411–424.
• Hofeneder, Philipp – Surman, Jan. Wissen Übersetzen: Schulbücher in der Habsburgermonarchie als Gegenstand translationswissenschaftlicher Forschung, in: Dybaś, Bogusław, Kąkolewski, Igor (eds.). Lehrbucher fur den Geschichtsunterricht in Galizien. Wien: Polnische Akademie der Wissenschaften Wissenschaftliches Zentrum in Wien, 2018, pp. 141–159.
  • Polish translation: Przetłumaczyć wiedzę – podręczniki szkolne w monarchii habsburskiej jako przedmiot badań przekładoznawczych, in: Dybaś, Kąkolewski (eds.) Szkolne podręczniki do nauki historii w Galicji, Wien: Polska Akademia Nauk. Stacja Naukowa w Wiedniu 2018, pp. 120–137.
• Surman, Jan. The contexts of Early Polish Positivism, 1840–1900s, in: Feichtinger, Johannes – Fillafer, Franz L. – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Worlds of Positivism. A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 239–272.
• Feichtinger, Johannes – Fillafer, Franz L. – Surman, Jan. Introduction: Particularizing Positivism, in: Feichtinger, Johannes – Fillafer, Franz L. – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Worlds of Positivism. A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 1–27.
• Surman, Jan. Sprachen – Grenzen – Übersetzungen: Überlegungen zum translatorischen Kulturbegriff am Beispiel Zentraleuropas, in: Lavinia Heller (ed.) Interkulturalität. Studien zu Sprache, Literatur und Gesellschaft. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2017, pp. 235–260.
• Surman, Jan. Linguistic Precision and Scientific Accuracy: Searching for the proper name of “oxygen” in French, Danish and Polish, in: MacLeod, Miles – Smirnova, Ekaterina - G. Sumillera, Rocio – Surman, Jan (eds.). Language as a Scientific Tool: Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions. New York: Routledge, 2016, pp. 131–148.
• Surman, Jan. Imperiale „go betweeners“: Jozef Dietl und Tomaš Garrigue Masaryk, in: Buchen, Tim Buchen – Rolf, Malte (eds.). Elitekarrieren in den Vielvolkerreichen der Habsburger, Romanovs und Osmanen 1850–1918 // Elites and Empire: Imperial Biographies in Russia and Austria-Hungary (1850–1918). Berlin: De Gruyters, 2015, pp. 311–337.
• Surman, Jan. Vom „akademischen Altersheim“ zur Spitzenforschungsanstalt? Mobilität der Wiener Professoren 1848–1918, in: Ash, Mitchell G. – Ehmer, Joseph (eds.). Universität – Politik –Gesellschaft, (=650 Jahre Universitat Wien – Aufbruch ins neue Jahrhundert, Bd. 2). Gottingen, Wien: Vienna University Press, 2015, pp. 621–648.
• Surman, Jan. Divided Space–Divided Science? Closing and transcending scientific boundaries in Central Europe, in: Rayward, Boyd W. (ed.). Information Beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Époque. Burlington-Surrey: Ashgate, 2014, pp. 69–84.
• Surman, Jan. Zwischen Internationalisierung und Popularisierung: Visionen der tschechischen Sprache der Naturwissenschaften der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, in: Ehlers, Klaas-Hinrich – Nekula, Marek– Niedhammer, Martina– Scheuringer, Hermann (eds.). Sprache, Gesellschaft und Nation in Ostmitteleuropa: Institutionalisierung und Alltagspraxis. Gottingen: V&R, 2014, pp. 131–154.
• Surman, Jan – Fillafer, Franz L. Габсбургский девятнадцатый век? [Habsburg neunzehntes Jahrhundert?], in: Сдвижков, Д.А. [Denis Sdvizkov] (ed.), Изобретение Века. Проблемы и модели времени в россии и европе xix столетия. Moscow: Новое литературное обозрение, 2013, pp. 209–228. (Translation: Iaroslava Kravchenko)
• Surman, Jan. Science and its publics. Internationality and National Languages in Central Europe, in: Ash, Mitchell G. – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848–1918. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 30–56.
• Ash, Mitchell G. – Surman, Jan. The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe: An Introduction, in: Ash, Mitchell G. – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848–1918. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 1–29.
• Surman, Jan – Angermann-Mozetič, Gerald. Ludwik Gumplowicz i jego socjologia, in: Surman, Jan – Angermann-Mozetič (eds.). Dwa życia Ludwika Gumplowicza. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2010, pp. 9–82.
• Surman, Jan. Gumplowicz i konteksty jego recepcji: Esej bibliograficzny, in: Surman, Jan – Angermann-Mozetič (eds.). Dwa życia Ludwika Gumplowicza. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa 2010, pp. 443–455.
• Surman, Jan. „La decouverte du social.“ Ludwik Gumplowicz i francuskie nauki społeczne, in: Surman, Jan – Angermann-Mozetič (eds.). Dwa życia Ludwika Gumplowicza. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa 2010, pp. 471–482.
• Surman, Jan. Du barbarisme et civilisation. Le conflit entre les etudiantes polonais et ruthenes en 1907 et sa construction journalistique, in: Le Rider, Jacques– Raschel, Heinz (eds.). La Galicie (1772–1918): histoire, societe, cultures en contact. Tours: Presses Univ. Francois Rabelais 2010, pp. 175–188.
• Surman, Jan. Die Konformitat der Universitaten? Die Hierarchie der osterreichischen Universitaten in der späten Habsburgmonarchie und ihr Einfluss auf die Mobilitat der Hochschullehrer, in: Motz-Linhart, Reinelde (ed.). Tagungsbericht des 25. Osterreichischen Historikertag, St. Polten, 16. bis 19. September 2008. Vienna: NO Landesarchiv und NO Institut fur Landeskunde Niederosterreich, 2010, pp. 468–479.
• Surman, Jan. Cisleithanisch und transleithanisch oder habsburgisch? Ungarn und das Universitatssystem der Doppelmonarchie, in: Lengyel, Zsolt K. – Nagy, Jozsef Zsigmond – Ujvary, Gabor (eds.). Osterreichisch-ungarische Beziehungen auf dem Gebiet des Hochschulwesens. Szekesfehervar, Budapest, 2010, pp. 235–252.
• Surman, Jan. Die Figurationen der Akademia. Galizische Universitaten zwischen Imperialismus und multiplen Nationalismus, in: Doktoratskolleg Galizien (ed.). (De-)Konstruktionen Galiziens. Innsbruck, Wien, Bozen:Studienverlag, 2009, pp. 17–40.
• Surman, Jan. Kopie der Geschichte – Geschichte einer Kopie, in: Brandstetter, Thomas – Rupnow, Dirk – Wessely, Christina Wessely (eds.). Sachunterricht. Fundstucke aus der Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Wien: Locker-Verlag, 2008, pp. 262–268.

Editorships

• Surman, Jan – Pavlíček. Tomáš W. Scientific Internationalism in Cold War Central and Eastern Europe: The Age of Reciprocity, New York: Berghahn 2026 (forthcoming).
• Surman, Jan (in cooperation with Friedrich Cain, Marcin Dolecki, Maciej Górny, Peter Haslinger, Adam Kożuchowski, Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen, Ewa Manikowska, Thomas Strobel), Science Interconnected: German-Polish Scholarly Entanglements in Modern History, Marburg: Verlag Herder Institut, 2022.
• Cain, Friedrich – Kleeberg, Bernhard – Hüchtker, Dietlind – Reichenbach, Karin – Surman, Jan (eds.). Scientific Authority and the Politics of Science and History in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte / History of Science and Humanities 44 (2021) no. 4.
• G. Sumillera, Rocio – Kühn, Katharina – Surman, Jan (eds.). Translation in Science, Science in Translation, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020.
• Cain, Friedrich – Kleeberg, Bernhard – Hüchtker, Dietlind – Surman, Jan (eds.). A New Culture of Truth? On the Transformation of Political Epistemologies since the 1960s in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe, Special Issue of Stan Rzeczy/State of Affairs 17 (2019), no 2.
• Cain, Friedrich – Kleeberg, Bernhard – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Past and Present of Political Epistemologies of (Eastern) Europe. Thematic section of Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 49 (2019).
• Feichtinger, Johannes – Klemun, Marianne – Svatek, Petra – Surman, Jan (eds). Wandlungen und Brüche. Wissenschaftsgeschichte als politische Geschichte. Gottingen, V&R, 2018.
• Feichtinger, Johannes – Fillafer, Franz L. – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Worlds of Positivism. A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Surman, Jan (ed.). Wissenschaft als Übersetzung? Translation und Wandel polnischsprachiger Wissenschaft im langen 19. Jahrhundert, Special issue of Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 65 (2016), no. 4.
• MacLeod, Miles – Smirnova, Ekaterina – G. Sumillera, Rocio – Surman, Jan (eds.). Language as a Scientific Tool: Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions, New York: Routledge, 2016.
• Surman, Jan – Straner, Katalin - Haslinger, Peter (eds.). Concepts in Biology, Special Panel in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 48 B (2014).
• Surman, Jan – Straner, Katalin - Haslinger, Peter (eds.). Concepts in Focus: Nomadic Concepts, Contributions to the History of Concepts 9 (2014), no 2.
• Surman, Jan – Klemens Kaps (eds.). Galicja postkolonialna: możliwosci i granice // Postcolonial or postcolonial? Post(-) colonial perspectives on Habsburg Galicia, Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 42 (2012). Polish version: http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/journal/98722; English, German: https://www.academia.edu/15087613/_full_issue_Jan_Surman_Klemens_Kaps_Postcolo nial_Galicia_Prospects_and_Possibilities_Historyka_42_2012
• Ash, Mitchell G. – Surman, Jan (eds.). The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848–1918. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• Surman, Jan – Gerald Angermann-Mozetič (eds.). Dwa życia Ludwika Gumplowicza. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 2010.

Articles in other Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Cain, Friedrich – Hüchtker, Dietlind – Kleeberg, Bernhard - Surman, Jan. A New Culture of Truth? On the Transformation of Political Epistemologies since the 1960s in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Stan Rzeczy/State of Affairs 17 (2019), no. 2, pp. 9–21.
• Cain, Friedrich – Kleeberg, Bernhard – Surman, Jan. The Past and Present of Political Epistemologies of (Eastern) Europe. The Past and Present of Political Epistemologies of (Eastern) Europe. Thematic section of Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 49 (2019), pp. 7–13.
• Surman, Jan. Adolf Dygasiński als Übersetzer: Pädagogische Biographie zwischen Wissenschaft und Literatur. OderÜbersetzen, Deutsch-polnisches Übersetzungsjahrbuch – Karl Dedecius Archiv / Polsko-niemiecki rocznik translatorski – Archiwum Karla Dedeciusa 5–6–7 (2016), pp. 64–76.
• Gordin, Michael – Jan, Surman. Beyond the center: Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe and their histories An interview with Professor Michael Gordin conducted by Jan Surman. Studia Historiae Scientiarum 15 (2016), pp. 433–452.
• Surman, Jan. Cyrkulacja, globalizacja, go-betweens: czyli jak pisać globalną historię nauki XIX wieku. Rozmowa z Kapilem Rajem. Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 46 (2016), pp. 423–437.
• Surman, Jan. Historyzowanie nauki lub jak nowe przychodzi na świat. Rozmowa z Hansem-Jorgiem Rheinbergerem. Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne 44 (2014), pp. 51–65.
• Surman, Jan. Entre indifference et transfert d’idees: la reception de la sociologie autrichienne en France avant la Premiere Guerre mondiale, in: Austriaca. Cahiers universitaires d'information sur l'Autriche 63 (2007), pp. 119–132.
• Surman, Jan. Uniwersytety Galicyjskie w Monarchii Habsburskiej: Nacjonalizacja nauki i internacjonalizacja wiedzy. Prace Komisji Historii Nauki PAU 12 (2012), 12, pp. 39–52.

Translations (selected)

• Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Epistemologia Historyczna, Warsaw: Oficyna Naukowa (2016), 336 pp. (chosen articles by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger), German → Polish
• articles of Mitchell Ash, Marva Elshakry, Kapil Raj, Karin Knorr-Cettina, fur Historyczna Epistemologia: Teksty Wybrane, Warsaw: IHN PAN, Aspra, in Vorbereitung. German & English → Polish
• Vyacheslav Artyukh, Elements of positivism in the Ukrainian philosophy and culture of the second half of the 19th century, Studia Historiae Scientiarum 16 (2017), pp. 270–301, Ukrainian → English
• Articles for Dwa życia Ludwika Gumplowicza. Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa (2010), Deutsch, French → English
• Articles for (ed. with Klemens Kaps), Galicja postkolonialna: możliwosci i granice, „Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne“ 42 (2012), German, English → Polish