Centrum Badań nad Kulturą i Mentalnością Dawnej Polski
Scientific Council of the Center
Adopted on October 21, 2025
Bożena Popiołek – Director of the Center
Research interests: early modern Polish and European history, the history of mentalities and the cultural history of the Baroque, the noble family and women’s history, Old Polish testamentary studies, manuscript news-sheets, clientelism, and the structure of magnate courts in the Saxon era.
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Urszula Kicińska – Deputy Director
Research interests: the mentality of the Saxon era, aristocratic women’s courts in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the social and economic activity of noblewomen, paranaetics, eschatology, and the material culture of early modern Poland.
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Karolina Kwaśna – Secretary
Research interests: cultural history, historical anthropology, and microhistory of the early modern period, with particular attention to colonial New England, critical cartography, geopoetics, cultural representations of space, cultural transfer, translation and memory, and the cultural history of fear, violence, and place.
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Jarosław Pietrzak – Secretary
Research interests: women’s history in early modern Europe, queenship and court life, court ceremonial in Polish and European contexts, royal and noble courts, female religious communities in the Polish lands, and the history of travel and mobility.
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