Jadwiga Staniszkis (26 April 1942 – 15 April 2024) was a Polish sociologist and political scientist, essayist, a professor at the University of Warsaw and the Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu (Higher Business School), a Polish campus of National-Louis University.

Jadwiga Staniszkis studied sociology at the Warsaw University Faculty of Philosophy, obtaining a PhD in 1971 ("Patologie struktur organizacyjnych").

Her first book about the dialectics of socialist society was translated into Japanese,[2] but the Polish manuscript was confiscated by the secret service (SB) and lost.

Her second book on the Solidarity movement has never been translated to Polish due to controversy, although it was published in French (two years before the 'original' English edition).

On 31 August 2006, President Lech Kaczyński awarded her the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.