Maria Antosik-Piela

Maria Antosik-Piela is a historian and researcher at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, specializing in Polish-Jewish cultural intersections and disability studies in historical contexts. She earned her PhD from the Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University in 2019.

• Primary Affiliation: Faculty of History, University of Warsaw (since 2020)
• Education: Graduate of Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw; PhD in Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University (2019)
• Research Focus: Polish-Jewish press, disability representations in Jewish literature, Galician history, and socio-political ideologies in cultural texts.

Her recent work analyzes the 1860s-1914 Jewish press to explore disability discourse, published in Medical History (2024). Earlier publications examine pogrom motifs in literature (2017), Yiddish writers in interwar Poland (2014), and Jewish women's emancipation in Galicia (2015). These studies reveal her interdisciplinary approach, bridging disability history, ethnic identity, and media analysis.

Antosik-Piela has participated in projects funded by the Foundation for Polish Science, National Science Centre, and National Programme for the Promotion of Humanities. Her scholarship emphasizes marginalized voices and the medicalization of disability in Jewish public discourse.