Delegate of the Rector for Gender Equality
dr hab. Lidia Michalska-Bracha, prof. UJK
Office hours:
Rectorate, Żeromskiego Street 5, Room 310, Wednesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 pm
Phone: 41 349 7349
Email: lidia.michalska-bracha@ujk.edu.pl
Dr. Hab. Lidia Michalska-Bracha, Prof. UJK - historian, professor at the Institute of History at Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce.
Deputy Director of the Doctoral School at UJK since October 1, 2019; Member of the Gender Equality Plan Committee since 2021 as part of the project: Gender Equality Plan at Jan Kochanowski University (within the research and innovation project co-financed by the HORIZON 2020 Program – ATHENA); Member of the National Museum Council in Kielce (2013-2026); Expert in project evaluation under the National Program for the Development of Humanities (2023-2025); External stakeholder of the Doctoral School of the University of Rzeszów.
From 2018 to 2021, she was a member of the ministerial Advisory Team as part of the Support for Scientific Journals program; collaborator of the Commission on the Theory and History of Historiography and Methodology of History at the Committee on Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2020-2023); member of the first University Council at UJK (2019-2020); member of the UJK Senate (2012-2020); Dean for Research at the Faculty of Humanities at UJK (2012-2019); member of the Commission on the History of Women of the Committee on Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2012-2016).
Her research interests focus on the history of Poland (19th-20th centuries), historiography, cultural memory, and the history of women in the 19th and 20th centuries. She conducted research in foreign research centers (France, Lithuania, Germany, Russia). She was a fellow of the Historical-Literary Society in Paris under the name of dr. Maria Zdziarska-Zaleska and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Krakow, as well as a guest of the Polish Historical Mission at the University of Würzburg. She presented the results of her research at over 70 national and international scientific conferences. She has supervised five doctoral students.
She is the executive in the research project: Center for Women's History, under the direction of prof. dr hab. M. Dajnowicz - Institute of Women's Studies - University of Białystok (DIALOG program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education), conducting research on: Autobiographical narratives of 19th-century Polish women as a source for women's history - methodological and source-critical aspects. From 2012 to 2019, she participated in the work of several international research teams, including projects under the National Program for the Development of Humanities: Pamiętniki i listy polskich autorów z Ziem Zabranych (Litwa, Białoruś, Ukraina) w latach 1795–1918 oraz Polscy zesłańcy na Syberii Zachodniej w drugiej połowie XVIII wieku — XIX wieku w oczach Rosjan i ludności syberyjskiej, under the supervision prof. dr. hab. W. Caban.
Author of over 150 scientific publications, including dozens in the field of women's history, recently published: Wspomnienia Emilii ze Szwarców Heurichowej (1819-1905) i jej córki Teodory z Heurichów Kiślańskiej (1844-1920) z czasów powstania styczniowego, Warszawa 2023 (jointly with E. Noiński); „Wedle ideału Klaudynek…” Wizerunek dziewiętnastowiecznej Polki w piśmiennictwie historycznym Antoniny Machczyńskiej, "Scientific Journal of the Institute of Women's Studies" 2023, No. 1 (14); Przestrzenie kobiecych wspomnień. Autobiograficzne narracje dziewiętnastowiecznych Polek jako źródło do historii kobiet – wybrane aspekty, w: Historia kobiet. Źródła, metody, kierunki badawcze, edited by. M. Dajnowicz, A. Miodowski, Białystok 2022; Nineteenth-century women's egodocuments in the historian's research workshop: (On the margins of the NPRH project: "Memoirs and letters of Polish authors from the Western Krai (Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine) 1795-1918"), "Scientific Journal of the Institute of Women's Studies" 2020, No. 1 (8); Wspomnienia Wandy z Wolskich Umińskiej (1841-1926), Warsaw 2020 (jointly with E. Noiński).
