Anna Dobrowolska, Ph.D.

Scientific activity

2023 – postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw

2022-2023 – EUI-IHEID postdoctoral fellow, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Genewa

2021-2023 – Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute, Florencja

2021 – D.Phil, Faculty of History, University of Oxford

2018 – MA, Institute of History, University of Warsaw

2016 – BA, Institute of History, University of Warsaw

Scientific interests

History of sexuality, sociology of intimacy, sociology of the body, gender history

Information about publications

 

 

 

Selected publications

Dobrowolska, A. (2023). “Why Don’t They Display Male Nudes?” Nude Photography, Women’s Art, and the Redefinition of Socialist Morality in 1970s Poland. Aspasia, 17, 164–182. https://doi.org/10.3167/asp.2023.170109

Dobrowolska, A. (2021). “Everyone dreams about leaving”: Debates on Human Trafficking in State-Socialist Poland. Journal of Women’s History, 33(4), 168–193. http://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2021.0049

Dobrowolska, A. (2021). Akt kobiecy i rewolucja seksualna w dekadzie Gierka. Historia wystaw „Venus” na tle przemian obyczajowych w PRL. Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 65(4), 139–156. https://doi.org/10.35757/KiS.2021.65.4.7

Dobrowolska, A. (2020). Zawodowe dziewczyny. Prostytucja i praca seksualna w PRL. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej.

Projects

Projects in progress

• The national habitus formation and the process of civilization in Poland after 1989: a figurational approach

Completed projects

Sexual Revolution or Evolution? The Transformations of Sexual Mores in Poland, 1956-1989 (Diamentowy Grant, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, 2017-2021)

Other

Anna Dobrowolska is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, and a Visiting Max Weber Fellow in the Department of History at the European University Institute in Florence. She holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford and her research is focused on the history of sexuality, visual culture, and gender under state socialism. Her first book, Zawodowe dziewczyny: Prostytucja i praca seksualna w PRL [Professional girls: Prostitution and sex work in state-socialist Poland] (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2020), explored the history of commercial sex in post-war Poland.