Karolina Morawska (b. 1993) is a Project Assistant in ELITES project. She completed her PhD studies at the Faculty of Culture and Arts of the University of Warsaw (PhD thesis regarding sexuality in medieval Poland defended in October 2022). She graduated in history at the Department of History of the University of Warsaw (MA in 2016) and in American studies at the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw (MA in 2018).
In 2017 – 2019 she was a research assistant in the project Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures (CRUSEV), financed by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) under HERA’s ‘Uses of the Past’ theme. The project explored LGBTQ social and sexual cultures of the 1970s and their significance for LGBTQ people accross Europe. As a CRUSEV team member, Morawska published articles and co-edited a volume on LGBTQ social and sexual cultures in Poland (1970s and 1980s).
From 2019 she leads the project Development of sexual ethics in Poland from the 11th to the 13th century under the influence of the Western European Christianization patterns, financed by the National Science Centre in Poland under the PRELUDIUM 15 call.
As the ELITES project assistant she supports the PI in cooperation with external service providers, organization of the events, coordination of the work on publications, as well as running the project website and social media profiles.
Her most important publications include:
- No authorities are interested in us, no-one interferes in our affairs? Policing Homosexual Men in the People’s Republic of Poland, w: Queers Under State Socialism. Cruising 1970s Poland, ed. by J. Burszta, T. Basiuk, Routledge 2021
- Kobiety w XI-wiecznej Europie. Główne problemy i wyzwania historiograficzne, w: Święty Piotr Damiani, Kazania o dziewicach, red. naukowa K. Skwierczyński, „Źródła Monastyczne” series, v. 89, Tyniec 2020
- W poszukiwaniu świętego patrona. Translacja św. Floriana a kult św. Stanisława w trzynastowiecznym Krakowie, [in:] Kult świętych w Europie łacińskiej X – XIII wieku, red. J. Pysiak, K. Skwierczyński, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego (forthcoming)
- „Którego serdeczna, uczciwa przyjaźń będzie motorem mojego życia…” – anonse towarzyskie w Relaksie z lat 1984 – 1988, „InterAlia”, v. 14/2019, Różowy język, ed. by A. Kościańska, K. Morawska, J. Burszta, T. Basiuk, pp. 51 – 72
- Did true love exist in medieval Poland? A study of love based on the collections of the accounts of miracles of saints, „International Journal of Arts & Sciences”, ISSN: 1944-6934 :: 08 (08):519-528 (2015) http://www.universitypublications.net/ijas/0808/html/U5K527.xml