Malgorzata Fidelis

Malgorzata Fidelis, PhD, is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on social and cultural history of post-1945 Poland, with expertise in gender studies, communism, and the global sixties. She teaches courses on Eastern Europe, gender, and modern European history. Her work bridges local and transnational contexts, examining youth culture, state-society interactions, and the legacies of communist policies.

Her major publications include Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland (2010) and Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain (2022), which won the Oskar Halecki Prize. She actively advises graduate students in Eastern European history, emphasizing UIC's strengths in Polish Studies and Chicago's unique resources. Her research has been published in leading journals such as the American Historical Review and Slavic Review.

• Awards: Oskar Halecki Prize (2023), Heldt Prize Honorable Mention (2023)
• Expertise: Social history, cultural history, gender, youth culture, Cold War studies