Publications

If the Walls Could Speak. Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland (Oxford University Press, November 2018). It received the Oskar Halecki Polish History Award, PIASA award.

PRZETRWAĆ. ŻYĆ DALEJ Rozmowy z więźniarkami z Europy Środkowej 1945-1956

An Ordinary Life? The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918–1996

Co-authored with Marta Cieslak, “Husbands Who Do Not Beat,” or on Gender and Sexuality in Polish American Studies" (an introduction to a special issue on gender and sexuality, eds. Muller, A., & Cieslak, M). Polish American Studies, Spring 2021.

“Neighbors and Ghosts” as part of a forum: “Is There a History of Poland Beyond the Holocaust?" accepted for a publication in The Polish Review in 2021 (vol. 66, no. 4).

“Writing Władysław Gomułka’s Life: Historiography of Władysław Gomułka’s Biographies,” accepted to be published in East European Politics & Societies and Cultures, Fall 2021.

“The Return: The Long Road Home of Female Concentration Camp Inmates,” Polish Review, vol. 65, no. 3, 2020, 3-29.

“Walls that Unite: Unlikely Friendships in Mokotów Prison, 1949-1956,” Rocznik Antropologii Historii [Yearly in Anthropology of History], Fall 2016: pp. 245-262.

“Polish Solidarity’s Heroine - Anna Walentynowicz– an exercise in memory studies, Rocznik Antropologii Historii [Yearly in Anthropology of History], Winter 2015, pp. 55-75.

“The Second Shore. The Poetry of Male and Female Political Prisoners in Post-war Poland,” ASPASIA. International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History 3 (2009): pp. 79-105.

“Jeśli ściany mogłyby mówić... Ciało więźniarek politycznych jako źródło siły i słabości” [If the walls could talk... The body of political prisoners as a source of power and weakness], Przegląd Historyczny 100 (2009): pp. 587-601.

“Gender, Generational Conflict, and Communism: Tonia Lechtman’s Story,” in: Gender, Generations and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond (Routledge, 2020).

“Masculinity and Dissidence in Eastern Europe in the 1980s,” in: Gender in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe and the USSR, ed. Catherine Baker (Palgrave Macmillan: UK, 2016), pp. 185- 200.

“Codzienność i opór. Próba usystematyzowana pojęcia oporu na przykładzie więźniarek stalinowskich z lat 1945-1956, (Everyday life and resistance. The attempt to systematize the concept of resistance on the example of Stalinist prisoners, 1945-1956),” (in:) Płeć Buntu (The Gender of the Rebelion), ed. Natalia Jarska and Jan Olszak (Warszawa: IPN, 2014), pp. 15-31.

“Exponate und ihre intellektuelle und emotionale Botschaft. Die Ausstellung über nationalsozialistische Konzentrationslager im Museum des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Gdańsk/Danzig/ Eksponaty i ich emocjonalny i intelektualny przekaz. Wystawa o obozach koncentracyjnych w Muzeum II Wojny Światowej w Gdańsku, in: Gedenkstättenarbeit und Erinnerungskultur. Ein deutsch-polnischer Austausch/ Kultura pamięci i praca w muzeach- miejscach upamiętania. Polsko-niemiecka wymiana, eds. P. Ciupke, etal. (Essen, 2014), pp. 281- 293.

“Between Social and Individual Memory: Being a Polish Woman in a Stalinist Prison,” in Tapestry of Memory. Evidence and Testimony in Life-Story Narratives, eds. Nanci Adler and Selma Leydesdorff, (London: Transaction Publishers, 2013), pp. 55-74.

“Women soldiers and women prisoners: Oral Testimonies of Ruta Czaplińska and Elżbieta Zawacka,” in Oral History. The Challenges of Dialogue, eds. Marta Kurkowska-Budzan and Krzysztof Zamorski (Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009), pp. 115-128.

“The Bim-Bom Theatre as a Reaction to Cultural de-Stalinization in the 1950s Polish People’s Republic,” Slavic and East European Performance (Fall 2006): pp. 44-55.

“War, Dialogue, and Overcoming the Past. The Second World War Museum in Gdańsk, Poland,” (Coauthored with Daniel Logemann, Public Historian, August 2017: pp. 85-95.

Black Lives Matter, czyli ile warte jest ludzkie życie, co-authored with Marta Cieślak, [Black Lives matter, or how much human life is worth], at: http://ohistorie.eu/2020/08/11/black-lives-matter-czyli-ile-warte-jest-ludzkie-zycie/ (2021)

An interview with Erica Lehrer, one of the curators of an exhibit on the representation of the Holocaust in Polish post-war folk art (interview was done in English and then I translated it into Polish), at: http://ohistorie.eu/2019/03/17/widok-zza-bliska-inne-obrazy-zaglady-rozmowa-z-erica-lehrer/?fbclid=IwAR0zYqWgd3FN7nu-ISjf9UWpdJjA2HlVM6WgDj-FeI2YxuEjXYNkacA-9Cg (2019)

Review of two books: Marci Shore, The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, Yale University Press, New Haven 2018 and Ioulia Shukan, Génération Maïdan. Vivre la crise ukrainienne, L’Aube (La Tour-d’Aigue) at: http://ohistorie.eu/2018/11/27/zycie-rewolucji-a-omowienie-ksiazek-ukrainska-noc-marci-shore-i-pokolenie-majdanu-ioulii-shukan/ (2019)

“Poetyka i polityka Muzeum II Wojny Światowej” at: http://laboratorium.wiez.pl/2017/11/15/poetyka-i- polityka-muzeum-ii-wojny-swiatowej/ (2018)

“Objects have the power to tell history” at: http://politicalcritique.org/cee/poland/2016/museum-of-the-war/ (2018)

“Inside-Out, czyli nauka wolności w więzieniu,” at: http://krytykapolityczna.pl/swiat/inside-out-czyli-nauka-wolnosci-w-wiezieniu/ (2018)

“When History Speaks Through Objects...” 45: The End of the War in 45 Artefacts at http://www.cultures-of-history.uni-jena.de/exhibitions/poland/when-history-speaks-through- objects-45- the-end-of-the-war-in-45-artefacts/ (2017)