Natalia Jarska, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher 

Prague

Research areas

women’s and gender history, post-war history of Poland, labour history, history of sexuality and family planning, the history of women’s movement, including comparative and transnational perspectives 

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

2001–2006: Master of Arts in History, University of Warsaw, thesis title: The Women's Section of the Spanish Phalanx, 1934–1950

2007–2013: PhD in History, PhD obtained in 2014, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, thesis title: The professional activity of women workers in Poland 1945–1960

Foreign internships and scholarships

2020–2021: Visiting researcher and fellow at the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain (fellowship granted by the Polish Agency of Academic Exchange)

International grants and projects

2017–2020: the Polish National Science Centre: Women and Men in Marriage in Poland in years 1939–1980, Principal Investigator

2020–2022: the Polish National Science Centre: Catholicising Reproduction, Reproducing Catholicism: Activist Practices and Intimate Negotiations in Poland, 1930–Present”, team member

Projects of Excellence in Basic Research

2021–2026: EXPRO – Excellence in Research grant (2021-2026), Czech Science Foundation: Expertise in authoritarian societies. Human sciences in the socialist countries of East-Central Europe, team member 

Domestic grants and major projects

2017–2018: the Czech Science Foundation: Intimate life during state socialism in comparative perspective, team member

Teaching

Anthropos Doctoral School of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2020–2022) 

Membership in editorial boards

Assistant editor of Roczniki Dziejów Społecznych i Gospodarczych (Social and Economic History Annals)
Member of the editorial team of the journal Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea (Complutense University, Madrid) (since 2022) 

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

Board member of the Polish Studies Association, US (since 2022) 

Significant awards 

2020: Scholarship for the outstanding young scholars awarded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education