Profile:
Malgorzata Fidelis teaches courses on East European, Polish, and Gender history. Her research focuses on social and cultural issues, particularly everyday life and the relationship between individuals and state power, in post-1945 Eastern Europe. Her first book titled “Between Tradition and Revolution: Women Industrial Workers and the State in Postwar Poland, 1945-1957” is a study of women workers and communist policies in Poland with a comparative dimension. The book's central theme explores how communist leaders and society reconciled pre-communist traditions with radically new norms imposed by the communist ideology. Her new research project concerns consumer cultures and transnational contacts in the Eastern Bloc, 1956-1989. She is also the author of "Equality through Protection: The Politics of Women's Employment in Postwar Poland, 1945-56” in the Slavic Review .