Marcin Gołąb

Assistant Professor
Faculty of Polish Studies

Marcin Goląb is a cultural studies scholar and historian within the Section of Contemporary Culture, the Institute of Polish Culture at University of Warsaw, and a member of the Urban Studies Laboratory. In 2024, he earned his PhD with a dissertation Child and Childhood in Postwar Poland (1945-1956) at the Faculty of Polish Studies, UW. He teaches urban studies, including urban themes in autobiographies. He examines issues of the child and childhood historically, in contemporary Polish culture, and the question of new studies of childhood. He is interested in the cultural reception of contemporary media transformations and modern applied technologies. He co-organizes student cultural studies research tours. He co-edited a special issue of Autobiography. Literature, Culture, Media (2024), devoted to children’s autobiographies, as well as the edited collection Nasz Dom 1919-2019. Social Pedagogies, the City and Childhood in the Practice of Nasz Dom (2019). From 2019 to 2023, he was the PI of the National Science Center-funded project “Child and Childhood in Postwar Poland (1944-1956).” He was also an investigator in the grant “Topo-Graphics: City, Map, Literature” under the National Program for the Development of the Humanities (2014–2017). Since 2021, he has been an investigator and secretary for the NCN Opus 19 project “Life Written for Competition. Diary Practices in Poland 1918–1939.”