M.A. Klaudia Nowak
Biography
A graduate of the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. She completed her bachelor’s degree on the basis of a thesis entitled “Elżbieta of Szydłowiec Radziwiłł (1533–1562) as a Role Model” in 2023. She obtained her master’s degree in 2025 with a thesis entitled “Commemorations of Deceased Children in Poland and Lithuania in the Sixteenth Century (up to 1580): Origins, Functions, and Cultural Contexts.”
Title of the doctoral dissertation
Szlachecka rodzina zrekonstruowana w Małopolsce na przełomie XVI–XVII w.
Research topics
Her research interests include the history of family life, socio-cultural transformations, and issues related to religion, spirituality, and customs in early modern Poland and Lithuania. She is currently working on a PhD dissertation on noble stepfamilies in Lesser Poland at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.