Natalia Jarska is a historian, associate professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History (Polish Academy of Sciences). Her research focuses on labor history, the history of the family and sexuality in post-war Poland from a gender perspective, the history of the women’s movement, and the history of expertise in comparative and transnational perspectives.
She authored the book Women of Marble: Women Workers in Poland 1945–1960 (in Polish) (Warsaw, 2015) based on her dissertation. In 2020, she received a three-year scholarship for outstanding young researchers from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland.
In 2020–2021, she was a visiting researcher at the Complutense University in Madrid with a Bekker Fellowship from the National Agency for Academic Exchange and a research project comparatively exploring the history of the International Women’s Year (1975) in Poland and Spain.
In the years 2021–2024, she held a post-doctoral position in the project “Expert Turn” (PI Kateřina Lišková). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Contemporary European History, European Review of History, Medical History, Women’s History Review, European History Quarterly, History of the Family, Historical Journal and Slavic Review. She serves on the editorial boards of the European History Quarterly and Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea.