Jadwiga Staniszkis

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Jadwiga Staniszkis (born 1942) is a Polish sociologist and political scientist, publicist, a professor at the University of Warsaw and the Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu - National-Louis University.

She is granddaughter of an agricultural enigneer prof. Witold Staniszkis. Jadwiga Staniszkis studied sociology at the Warsaw University Faculty of Philosophy, in 1971 obtained a PhD (her dissertation was named in 1973 as the best dissertation of the year), in 1978 she got habilitation of humanistics, in the division of sociology. Since 1991 she is a professor.

After the graduation Staniszkis worked at the Department of Sociology at her alma mater. She contributed to the active political life at the University. For attending the student abd intellectual protests against the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland (during the 1968 Polish political crisis) she was dismissed from the University and arrested for 7 months.

In 2004 she received the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science.