“Husbands Who Do Not Beat,” or on Gender and Sexuality in Polish American Studies

Marta Cieślak, Ph.D., is a Humanities Scholar at the Center of Arkansas History and Culture at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She specializes in the history of transatlantic migrations, nationalism and national identities, gender, and transatlantic reform movements. She is currently working on a project that investigates the unique experience of Polish female migrants in American cities at the turn of the 20th century. Email: mxcieslak@ualr.edu

Anna Müller is an Associate Professor and the Frank and Mary Padzieski Endowed Professor in Polish/Polish American/Eastern European Studies at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She is the author of If the Walls Could Speak. Inside a Women’s Prison in Communist Poland (2017). Between 2018–2020, she was the President of Polish American Historical Association. Email: anmuller@umich.edu