The Gender of Smuggling: East German Customs and the Criminalization of Polish Workers’ Consumption, 1980-1989
Presented at the workshop “Between Deviance and Marginalization: Gendered Perspectives on Transnational Crime” at the Universität Erfurt.
Warszawa w październiku / Warsaw in October
In October 2021, I made several trips to Warsaw to conduct research in the Archiwum Akt Nowych. Equipped with my trusty camera (and sometimes with my GDR-made Pentacon 135mm lens), I photographed not only untold quantities of archive documents but also some of the sights of Stary Mokotów and central Warsaw.
Window on Wrocław
Signs, text, graffiti, posters, and murals in Wrocław’s public spaces.
Wrocławianie
People in Wrocław.
Wrocław reopens
It has been an unusual year to do research abroad, as I have spent most of my time in Poland inside my own apartment, “Zoomed out” in front of a computer screen. Travel long remained restricted, restaurants and bars were closed, and public spaces felt risky due to the coronavirus pandemic. Spring 2021 felt like…
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Wrocławska zima / Wrocław Winter
Photos from the Winter in Wrocław, where I have been conducting a research project about the German-Polish border.
Pracujący nad granicą: Kontrola Polek i Polaków zatrudnionych w NRD, 1980-1989
Prezentacja w seminarium naukowym Ośrodku Badań Regionalnych i Obszarów Pogranicza (OBROP) w Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim Pomimo, że NRD zdecydowało o zamknięciu granicy z PRL w 1980 r., a w kolejnym roku został w Polsce ogłoszony stan wojenny, tysiące Polek i Polaków nadal codziennie przekraczało granicę w latach osiemdziesiątych, żeby pracować we wschodnioniemieckich fabrykach. Dla nich praca…
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Jesień we Wrocławiu / Fall in Wrocław
Starting in September 2020, I moved for a year to Wrocław, Poland, to conduct research as part of my DAAD project, entitled “Working the Border: Policing Labor along the Polish-East German Border, 1980-1989.” Here are some of my first impressions of the city in Fall 2020.
Working the Border: Policing Labor along the Polish-East German Border, 1980-1989
Project outline presented for DAAD PRIME seminar in Bonn. See also the page devoted to this research project.
Caught in the Net: GDR-Poland Border Conflicts in Everyday Life
Presentation at the “New Transnational and Global Approaches to the GDR Border” international workshop at the University of Erfurt, 10 July 2019.