Assistant professor in the Institute of History and Archival Studies at the Pedagogical University of Cracow. Interested in such research themes as Modern Polish and international history, Women in the early-modern period, Widows and widowers, History of private life, History of family, Anthropology of everyday life and holidays, Anthropology of emotions, History of travel and travelling. Currently, the beneficiary of NCN grant Women’s noble court in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Saxon times. Structure, people, culture, functions.

Books:

„W tym osieroconym stanie…”. Pozycja wdowy w społeczeństwie szlacheckim w Rzeczypospolitej (od schyłku XVII do połowy XVIII wieku), Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego, Kraków 2020, ss. 680. LINK

Studies on Female Patronage in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries, edited by Bożena Popiołek, Urszula Kicińska, Anna Penkała-Jastrzębska, Agnieszka Słaby, Kraków 2019 LINK

Articles:

Beyond the Standards of the Epoch – The Phenomenon of Elżbieta Sieniawska Née Lubomirska and Anna Katarzyna Radziwiłł née Sanguszko based on Selected Aspects of Their Economic Activities in Times of Political Unrest in the Saxon Era, in: Open Military Studies, 2022, Vol. 2, iss. 1, s. 12-19. LINK

Sources for studying the position of widows in noble families and society in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth : an outline of the problem and research questions, “Res Gestae. Czasopismo Historyczne”, 2021, T. 13, s. 42-55 LINK

Political activity of widows as an example of shaping cliental dependencies in the second half of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, “Theatrum Historiae” 2019, nr 24, s. 41-53 LINK

 Bożena Popiołek, Urszula Kicińska, Panie Zamoyskie: Anna Franciszka z Gnińskich, Teresa z Potockich i Urszula z Kalińskich – okruchy biografii w świetle korespondencji i aktów ostatniej woli, “Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej” 2017, T. 65, nr 1, s. 19-38 LINK