Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz is a cultural historian with a degree in general history and a Ph.D in literary studies (Institute of Literary Research PAS, Warsaw, 2008). Her research interests include women’s history in post-1945 Poland, the history of feminist thought in the second half of the 20th century and discourse analysis. She is a member of the Women’s Archive research team at the Institute of Literary Research PAS.
She was a fellow of the Visegrad Scholarship at the Open Society Archives in Budapest as well as an investigator and a member of the editorial team in the project “Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights. East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century”, which resulted in a source texts volume published by CEU Press.
Next to her position in FemEx, she is currently a researcher affiliated with the ERC-project “The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001" (HERESSEE) at the University of Vienna. She co-authored the monograph Kobiety w Polsce 1945-1989. Nowoczesność, równouprawnienie, komunizm (Krakow 2020), soon to be published in English. Her papers appeared among others in the Journal of Consumer Culture, Slavic Review, and Gender&History.