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Prof. habil. Agnieszka Mrozik, PhD

01.01.2026 - 31.03.2026

Literary Studies

  • GWZO Fellow

    Research topic at the GWZO:

    »From Cold Warriors to Organizers and Interpreters of the World: Polish Leftist Women Activists and the Gender History of the Cold War«

  • Institution

    Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

  • Research topics

    • Women, gender and generations in state-socialist and post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe
    • Communist women in post-World War II Poland: biography, memory, cultural and women’s activism
    • Cultural relations between Poland and the Global South after World War II through the lens of gender
    • Remembering post-socialist transitions in Central and Eastern Europe: literary, visual and autobiographical perspectives.
       

  • Research region

    Poland

  • Publications (selection)

    • Agnieszka Mrozik, “Bringing the Global South in: Polish women journalists’ efforts to foster solidarity with Asian women during the Global Sixties,” The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1 (2025): 107–126.
    • Agnieszka Mrozik, “Locally and Globally: Polish Communist Women Activists and Post-War Transnational Emancipation Efforts, and How to Write About Them Today,” in Transnational Feminism in Non-English Speaking Europe, c.1960–1990, ed. Agnes Andeweg and Heidi Kurvinen (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 177–201.
    • Kristen Ghodsee and Agnieszka Mrozik, “Authority, Authenticity, and the Epistemic Legacies of Cold War Area Studies: Some Reflections on Women’s History and State Socialism in Eastern Europe,” Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History 17 (2023): 31–52.
    • Agnieszka Mrozik, Architektki PRL-u. Komunistki, literatura i emancypacja kobiet w powojennej Polsce (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2022), 532 pp.
    • Anna Artwińska and Agnieszka Mrozik, “Generational and Gendered Memory of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe: Methodological Perspectives and Political Challenges”, in Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond, ed. Anna Artwińska and Agnieszka Mrozik (New York and London: Routledge, 2020), 9–28.

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