Malgorzata Fidelis, University of Illinois Chicago – social and cultural historian, focused particularly on everyday life and the relationship between individuals and state power in post-1945 Eastern Europe; the author of Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland (2022) and Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland (2010). She is currently working on a book about the post-1989 transition in Poland with an emphasis on grassroots protests in defense of reproductive rights.