Prague 
Research areas
cultural history of post-1945 Poland, gender and women’s history, history of popular culture and popular discourse analysis, history of everyday life, history of housework and household
Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees
1988–1994: Master in History, University of Warsaw, thesis title: Sins and sinners in the Geoffrey Chaucers’s Canterbury Tales
2001–2006: Ph.D. programme, Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
2008: Ph.D. in Literary Research, Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, thesis title: Confession Narratives in the Polish Women’s Magazines in XX century
Foreign internships and scholarships
6/2016: short time scholarship, Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO), Universität Leipzig
2–3/2022: scientific mission COST action, Central European University, Budapest
10–11/2023: Visegrad Scholarship at the Open Society Archives, Budapest (project Narratives of Crisis. Great History and a New Emotional Regime in Polish Personal Diaries and Memoirs of the 1980s)
International grants and projects
2006–2009: Social and cultural magazines during the communist era in Poland (Czasopisma społeczno-kulturalne w okresie PRL), grant MNiSW, team member
2013–2017: Women in Poland 1944–1989 / Kobiety w Polsce 1944–1989, NPRH 11H 12 0085 81, Principal Investigator
2016–2019: The history of gender as a subject of knowledge: theoretical frameworks and research practices in Polish studies on women’s past in an international context / Historia gender jako przedmiot wiedzy: teoretyczne ramy i praktyka badawcza polskich studiów nad przeszłości kobiet na tle międzynarodowym, Narodowe Centrum Nauki, 2015/17/B/HS3/00105, team member
2016–2021: “Modernity, quality and aesthetics” of home appliances. Turning ideologies into material culture artefacts in late state socialist Poland (1970–1989) / “Nowoczesność, jakość i estetyka“ wyposażenia gospodarstw domowych. Wpisywanie ideologii w artefakty kultury materialnej w socjalistycznej Polsce (1970–1989). Narodowe Centrum Nauki, 2016/23/D/HS3/03199, team member
2017–2021: COST Action CA16213: New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent, team member
2023–2028: ERC project: The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929–2001 (HERESSEE), Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), Vienna University, team member
2025–2027: Ženské expertky a feministická produkce znalostí v poválečné střední a východní Evropě v letech 1945–1989 [FemEx] / Women Experts and Feminist Knowledge Production in Post-War East Central Europe, 1945–1989 [FemEx], Czech Science Foundation, International Projects (Lead Agency Grant Projects), reg. n. 25-14627L, Czech beneficiary: Institute of History of the CAS, Polish beneficiary: Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, team member
Teaching
Course „Women’s question in Poland 1945–1989” – Postgraduate Gender Studies at the Institute of Literary Research, PAS (since 2019)
Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) (since 2019)
Women’s and Gender History Section of the Committee of Historical Sciences PAS (since 2024)
Significant awards
2025: The seal of excellence awarded annually by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARIS) for the book Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights. East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century, CEU Press, Budapest 2024, co-edited with: Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc
