Dr. Marta Cieślak, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

Marta Cieślak is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she teaches courses in modern European, world, and women's history. She received her Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo and specializes in transatlantic history. Her work spans East-Central Europe and the United States as she investigates historical connections and parallels between these two regions. Her research interests include transatlantic migrations, nationalism and nation-building, rural and urban poverty, and progressive reform movements.

In her current project, she examines migration in and out of partitioned Poland after the abolition of European serfdom and responses of the Polish and American progressive nationalists to this new development in the transatlantic world. More recently, she has begun works on a project that will focus specifically on the transatlantic experience of Polish rural women after the abolition of serfdom.