At the Cultural History Section, we combine an interest in the past with methodologies of cultural studies and anthropology. We focus on the history of Polish culture of various periods – from the Middle Ages to the early 21st century – asking questions about cultural practices and experiences, cultural institutions, ideas, mentalities, and customs.
Our recent research projects and plans include, among others, such topics as:
- cultural memory and the co-existence of literacy and orality in the culture of past ages,
- writing practices in 19th- and 20th-century Poland,
- experiences of modernity in 19th-century culture,
- transformations of the Polish memory of the Holocaust,
- cultural history of the Polish People’s Republic,
- social functioning of communist ecological ideas,
- modern Catholic practices and institutions,
- environmental history of the two last centuries,
- sports and bodily practices,
- modern social associations,
- landscape studies.
Faculty
prof. dr hab. Paweł Majewski, pj.majewski@uw.edu.pl
dr hab. Małgorzata Litwinowicz-Droździel, prof. ucz., m.litwinowicz@uw.edu.pl
dr hab. Paweł Rodak, prof. ucz., p.rodak@uw.edu.pl
dr hab. Justyna Kowalska-Leder, j.kowalska-leder@uw.edu.pl
dr hab. Igor Piotrowski, igorpiotrowski@uw.edu.pl
dr Ada Arendt, ada.arendt@uw.edu.pl
dr Piotr Kubkowski, Head of Section, piotrkubkowski@uw.edu.pl
dr Agnieszka Laddach, a.laddach@uw.edu.pl
dr Weronika Parfianowicz, w.parfianowicz@uw.edu.pl
dr Joanna Zięba, j.zieba@uw.edu.pl
Graduate students
mgr Anna Jaroszuk, anna.jaroszuk@uw.edu.pl
mgr Justyna Jaworska, j.jaworska9@uw.edu.pl
mgr Karolina Kolinek-Siechowicz, k.kolinek-siechowicz@uw.edu.pl
mgr Joanna Piechura-Velychenko, j.piechura—v@student.uw.edu.pl
mgr Justyna Szklarczyk, j.szklarczyk@uw.edu.pl
mgr Karolina Wróbel-Bardzik, k.wrobelbardzik@uw.edu.pl