Marek Lasota works within the Institute of National Memory in Krakow, in its Commission for Tracking Down Crimes Agasint the Polish Nation.  In 1984 he completed a degree in Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University.  He also took up film studies while studying there.  Between 1982 and 1984 he simultaneously studied at the Ecclesiastical History Department of the Papal Academy of Theology in Krakow—earning a doctorate for his efforts.  Cultural critic, author and editor of books covering the history of Communist Poland and of the communist's  repression of the Church.  He has devoted much of his newspaper articles to these same topics.  He is the co-author, consultant and participant of television and radio programs devoted to these themes.