Malgorzata Mazurek

Małgorzata Mazurek specializes in the modern history of Poland and East Central Europe, and is the Co-Deputy Director of the East Central European Center. Her interests include history of social sciences, international development, social history of labor and consumption in the twentieth-century Poland and Polish-Jewish studies. She published Society in Waiting Lines: On Experiences of Shortages in Postwar Poland, which deals with history of social inqualities under state socialism, and articles on labor, consumption, and history of human and social sciences in twentieth-century east central Europe. Her latest book, A Place for All to Prosper: How Development Economics Emerged in Twentieth-Century Poland, revises the history of developmental thinking by centering east-central Europe as the locality of innovations in economic thought in post-imperial Europe and the postcolonial world. It investigates the role of Warsaw-based social scientists in shaping Eastern European debates on population, migration and capitalism and further, in transforming this locally produced knowledge into development policies for the so-called “Third World.” 

Małgorzata Mazurek serves as an Advisory Committee Member.