CURRICULUM VITAE MALGORZATA FIDELIS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 601 SOUTH MORGAN STREET 913 UNIVERSITY HALL CHICAGO, IL 60607 e-mail: [email protected] EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor Assistant Professor Lecturer

History Department, UIC, 2011-present History Department, UIC, 2006-2011 History Department, Stanford University, 2005-2006

EDUCATION Ph.D.

M.A. B.A. (Honors)

History, Stanford University, 2006 Dissertation title: “The New Proletarians: Women Industrial Workers and the State in Postwar Poland, 1945-1957” (Adviser: Norman Naimark) History, Stanford University, 2001 History, University of California, Davis, 1998

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS (SELECTED) • • • • •

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National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), Title VIII National Research Competition Grant, 2012-13 Faculty Fellowship, The Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2008-09 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, School of Humanities and Sciences and the Humanities Center, Stanford University, 2004-05 Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, 2004-05 Prize for Best Undergraduate Seminar Designed and Taught by a Graduate Student, “Women and Communism in Eastern Europe and Russia,” History, Stanford University, 2004 Fulbright Research Grant, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 2002-03 Dobb’s Prize for the Best History Honors Thesis of the Year, “Womanhood and National Liberation: The Cultural Construction of Gender Roles for Women in the Late Nineteenth-Century Kingdom of

Poland” (Adviser: William Hagen), Department of History, University of California, Davis, 1998 BOOKS • •

The Sixties Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth, Culture and Politics in Poland, 1954-1974 (in progress) Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

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“Communism and Postcommunism,” in The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700, edited by Irina Livezeanu and Arpad von Klimo, chapter co-authored with Irina Gigova (forthcoming 2013) “Red State, Golden Youth: The Student Culture and Political Protest in Poland in the 1960s,” in Between the Avant Garde and the Everyday: Subversive Politics in Europe, 1958-2008, edited by Timothy Brown and Lorena Anton (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2011), 145-153 “Recovering Women’s Voices in Communist Poland,” in Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010), 107-124 (The collection won the Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians, 2011) “Are You a Modern Girl? Consumer Culture and Young Women in 1960s Poland,” in Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe, edited by Shana Penn and Jill Massino (New York: Palgrave, 2009), 171-184 “Equality through Protection: The Politics of Women’s Employment in Postwar Poland, 1945-1956,” Slavic Review 63 (Summer 2004), 301-324 “’Participation in the Creative Work of the Nation:’ Polish Women Intellectuals in the Cultural Construction of Gender Roles, 1864-1890,” Journal of Women’s History 13 (Spring 2001): 108-131

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“’A Nation’s Strength Lies Not in Numbers’: De-Stalinization, Pronatalism, and the Abortion Law of 1956 in Poland” in Geschlechterbeziehungen in Ostmitteleuropa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Soziale Praxis und Konstruktionen von Geschlechterbildern, edited by Claudia Kraft (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2007), 203-215 “Czy ‘nowy matriarchat’? Kobiety bez mężczyzn w Polsce po II wojnie światowej (A New Matriarchy? Single Women in Poland after World War II),” in Kobieta i rewolucja obyczajowa. Społeczno-kulturowe aspekty seksualności. Wiek XIX i XX. (Woman and Sexual Revolution. Social and

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Cultural Aspects of Sexuality), edited by Anna Żarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2006), 421-436 “Młode robotnice w mieście. Percepcje kobiecej seksualności w Polsce w latach pięćdziesiątych XX-go wieku (Young Women Workers and the City: Perceptions of Female Sexuality in Poland in the 1950s),” in Kobieta i małżeństwo. Społeczno-kulturowe aspekty seksualności (Woman and Marriage. Social and Cultural Aspects of Sexuality), edited by Anna Żarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2004), 453475

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“Poland” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 468-472 “Warsaw Pact” in Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006)

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Pawel Machcewicz, Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956, American Historical Review 116 no. 4 (October 2011): 1228 M.B.B. Biskupski, James S. Pula, and Piotr J. Wrobel, eds.,The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy, Slavic Review 70, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 680-681 Maria Bucur, Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in TwentiethCentury Romania, Aspasia 5 (2011), 218-220 Krzysztof Persak et al.,eds., Od Piłsudskiego do Wałęsy. Studia z dziejów Polski w XX wieku, The Polish Review 55, no.3 (2010): 368-373 “Diverse Voices: Women and Gender in Recent Polish History and Historiography,” review of Katherine Jolluck, Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union during World War II; Eva Plach, The Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Piłsudski’s Poland, 1926-1935; Kobieta i małzeństwo. Społeczno-kulturowe aspekty seksualności. Wiek XIX i XX, edited by Anna Żarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc; Kobieta i rewolucja obyczajowa. Społeczno-kulturowe aspekty seksualności. Wiek XIX i XX, edited by Anna Żarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc; in Aspasia 3 (2009), 23344 “Gendering the Front in Eastern Europe,” review of Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe, edited by Nancy Meriwether Wingfield and Maria Bucur, H-Net HABSBURG Discussion Network, http://www2.hnet.msu.edu/~habsweb/ (January 2008) Melissa Feinberg, Elusive Equality: Citizenship, Gender, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1950, History: Reviews of New Books 35, no 2 (Winter 2007), 69-70

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“Szukając traktorzystki. Kobiety i komunizm (In Search of a Female Tractor Driver: Women and Communism),” invited essay, Miesięcznik ZNAK, October 2012 (forthcoming) “Same chciały (They Wanted It),” interview about women and work in postwar Poland conducted by Adam Leszczyński, Wysokie Obcasy, 11 June 2011 http://www.wysokieobcasy.pl/wysokieobcasy/1,114757,9755972,Kobiety_w_PRL_u.html

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“Window to the World: Imagining the West in the Polish Popular Press, 1950s-1960s,” on the panel Popular Media and Publicity, Conference on the East-West Cultural Exchanges and the Cold War, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 14-16 June 2012 “The Other Marxists: Interpreting Student Revolts in Poland in the Global Sixties,” on the panel Fear and Fascination: War, Enemies, and the Other in the Soviet Bloc through the 1960s, Association for the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 43rd National Convention, Washington D.C., 17-20 November 2011 Round Table Commentator, Encounters between Central and South Eastern Europe in Modern History, Association for the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 43rd National Convention, Washington D.C., 17-20 November 2011 “Constructing Socialist Modernity in 1960s Poland,” invited speaker, The Institute for Literary Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 16 June 2011 “Heroines and Rebels: Women’s Strikes in Żyrardów, 1945-1951,” on the panel Economic Resistance and Strikes, invited participant, International Conference on Women in Popular Resistance and Political Opposition in Poland, 1944-1989. A Comparative Perspective, Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, 7-8 April 2011 “Virtual Tourists: Images of Western Travel in the Polish Popular Press in the 1960s,” on the panel From Mountaintops to Imagination: The Cultural History of Polish Getaways, 1956-1972, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 42nd National Convention, Los Angeles, CA, 18-21 November 2010 Panel Discussant, on the panel (How) Did Popular Culture Deconstruct Socialism? The Case of Poland, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 42nd National Convention, Los Angeles, CA, 18-21 November 2010 “Trade Unions and the Question of Gender Equality in Postwar Poland,” invited participant, Symposium on Trade Unions and Social Policy under Communism, Indiana University, Bloomington, 22 October 2010

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“The Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe,” invited speaker, the Newberry Teachers’ Consortium, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, 3 March 2010 and 14 October 2009 “A Laboratory for Social Change? Gender and Work in Postwar Poland,” on the panel Industrial Workers and Postwar Central and Eastern Europe, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 41st National Convention, Boston, MA, 12-15 November 2009 Panel Discussant, on the panel Writing and Performing Identity in Eastern Europe and Russia, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 41st National Convention, Boston, MA, 12-15 November 2009 “Does Feminism Exist in Eastern Europe? The Western Gaze and Women’s Movements in Eastern Europe,” on the panel From Human Rights to Gendered Rights: Protest Ethics from the Private into the Public, Shaping Europe in a Globalized World? Protest Movements and the Rise of a Transnational Civil Society, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 23-27 June 2009 “Red State, Golden Youth: Consumption, Politics, and the Student Culture in Poland in the 1960s,” on the panel Goods, Pleasures, and Wonderlands: Consumer Culture in Postwar Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 40th National Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 20-23 November 2008 “In Search of Communist Modernity: Consumer Culture and Cold War Politics in 1960s Poland,” invited speaker, DeSantis Speaker Series, Department of History, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 14 November 2008 “Red State, Golden Youth: The Student Culture and Political Protest in Poland in the 1960s,” on the panel Youth and Countercultures, Confronting Cold War Conformity: Peace and Protest Cultures in Europe, 1945-1989, Summer School at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 18-25 August 2008 “New Women and Old Communities: Gender and Coal Mining in Postwar Poland,” Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, 11 March 2008 “Sex after Stalinism: Defining Morality in Postwar Poland, 1950s-1960s,” on the panel Stalinism, De-Stalinization, and Sexuality, Seventh European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 26 February – 1 March 2008 “Sexual Politics and De-Stalinization in Poland,” Russian and East European Studies Workshop, Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, University of Chicago, 27 November 2007 “Sexual Politics and De-Stalinization in Poland,” Russian and East European Reading Group, Institute for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 19 November 2007 “The Years That Rocked the Bloc: Consumer Culture, Youth, and the Search for Identity in East-Central Europe in the 1960s,” on the panel Youth, Culture and Politics, New World Coming: The Sixties and the

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Shaping of Global Consciousness, Interdisciplinary Conference at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 13-16 June 2007 “’A Nation’s Strength Lies Not in Numbers:’ De-Stalinization, Pronatalism, and the Abortion Law of 1956 in Poland,” invited participant, on the panel Familie und Staat, Geschlechterverhältnisse in Ostmitteleuropa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Soziale Praxis und Konstruktionen von Geschlechterbildern, Bad Wiessee, Germany, 17-22 November 2005 “A New Matriarchy? Single Womanhood in Postwar Poland, 1945-1950,” on the panel Women, Family Formation, and the State in TwentiethCentury Eastern Europe, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 36th National Convention, Boston, MA, 4-7 December 2004 “Mothers of Society: Women without Husbands in Postwar Poland, 19451948,” invited participant, on the panel War, Revolution, and Sexuality, Sexuality and Culture Conference, Historical Institute, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 27-29 May 2004 “’New Occupations’ and Traditional Hierarchies: The Case of Female Coal Miners in Postwar Poland, 1951-1957,” on the panel Work, Domesticity and the Marketplace: Women under Communism in Poland, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 35th National Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 20-23 November 2003 “Gender and Ideology: Women Workers’ Writings in Postwar Poland in the 1950s,” on the panel Women in Postwar Eastern Europe, Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference, Berkeley, CA, 6-8 June 2003 “Histoire du travail des femmes en Silésie dans les années 1950,” invited speaker, Séminaire Doctoral en Sciences Sociales, French Studies Institute, University of Warsaw, Poland, 19 May 2003 “’New Occupations’ and Traditional Hierarchies: The Case of Female Coal Miners in Postwar Poland, 1951-1957,” invited speaker, Polish Women’s History Commission, Historical Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 9 April 2003

TEACHING Undergraduate • Eastern European Borderlands, 1500s to the present • Gender, Work, and Leisure in the Modern World • History of Poland • Stalinism in Eastern Europe • Survey of Central and Eastern Europe (team-taught with Slavic/Baltic and Germanic Departments) • Women and Communism in Eastern Europe and Russia Graduate • Gender and Work in Cross-Cultural Perspective • Historiography of Modern Europe

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Poles, Jews, and Germans: The Problem of Proximity? (team-taught with Elspeth Carruthers and Richard Levy)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE UIC • • • • • • •

Associate Chair, Department of History, 2010-12 Member, Executive Committee, History, 2010-12 Member, Program Committee, History, 2010-12 Member, Teaching Advisory Committee, History, 2010-12. Member, Undergraduate Advisory Committee, History, 2006-12 Member, Graduate Advisory Committee, History, 2010-11 Member, Search Committee for Endowed Chairs in Polish History and Polish Language and Literature, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2009-10 General • Member, Editorial Board, Aspasia: International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History • Invited Expert, “Polish History at UIC,” radio program “Co słychac (What’s New),” Polish Radio, Chicago, IL, aired 4 May 2009 and 10 May 2009; and “Studying Polish History at UIC”; television program “Z daleka a z bliska (From a Far, but Up Close),” TV Polonia, Polish Television, SA, aired 19 March, 2009 • Reader, manuscript reviews for Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Longman, Northwestern University Press, Oxford University Press, Agricultural History, Aspasia, European History Quarterly, Feminist Studies, Global Society, and Signs PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Polish Studies Association