Abrams, Bradley , Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University @
Ph. D. Stanford University 1997
Phone: 212.854.6287 / Fax: 212.854.8577 / E-Mail: bfa4@columbia.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Czech Culture, History and Socialism
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
COURSES
  • Problems of Communism in East Central Europe
  • East-Central European Intellectuals and Communism, 1945-1989
  • Topics in Eastern European History: Communism in Eastern Europe
Agman, Nike, V. , Lector, Department of Slavic Language & Literature, Yale University
Ph.D.,
Phone: (203) 436-8083 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: nike.agman@yale.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS:. . .
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Anemone, Anthony, Jr .,Associate Professor, College of William and Mary @
Ph. D. University of California at Berkeley 1985
Phone: 212.854.6287 / Fax: 212.854.8577 / E-Mail: bfa4@columbia.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Russian literature and culture
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
PRESENTATIONS
  • Stanislaw Lem and Dostoevsky: On Ethical Utopias., Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Richmond, VA, March, 1999.
Askanas, Valerie Professor of Neurology, University of Southern California @
M.D., Warsaw Medical School, 1960.
Ph.D., Warsaw Medical School, 1967
Phone: (213) 743-1612 / Fax: (213) 743-1617 / E-Mail: askanas@usc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Neuromuscular diseases
Babby, Leonard H., Professor of Slavic Linguistics, Princeton University @
Ph.D., Harvard
Phone: 609-258-2433 / Fax: 609-258-2204 / E-Mail: babbylh@Princeton.EDU
MAJOR INTERESTS: Structure of Russian, History of Russian, Old Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Syntactic theory, Language universals, Turkish linguistics.
Bachminska, Ewa Adjunct Faculty, Department of International Languages and Cultures, Webster University @
M.A., Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, 2001
Phone: ... / Fax: ... / E-Mail: ewabachminska-AT-hotmail.com
MAJOR INTERESTS: The culture of Poland
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Baran, Henryk , Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies , State University of New York at Albany
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1976
tel: (518) 442-4226 / fax: 518/442-4217 / Email: hebaran@ibm.net
MAJOR INTERESTS: Historian of Russian and Polish literature and culture
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
COURSES TAUGHT
  • Topics in Slavic Literatures and Cultures (Rus 27)
ARTICLES
  • "Polish Literature" Chapters in: The Reader's Adviser, Vol. 2. 12th ed. New York and London: R. R. Bowker, 1977. 510-521
BOOK REVIEWS
  • "T. Konwicki, The Polish Complex" Library Journal 15. Mar. 1982
  • "Cz. Milosz, The Issa Valley" Library Journal 1. Aug. 1981
  • "T. Rozewicz, Unease" Library Journal 15. Jun. 1980
Baranczak, Anna, Preceptor, Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, Harvard University @
Ph.D. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, 1977
Phone: (617) 495-5808 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: barancz@fas.harvard.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Beginning through advanced Polish language instruction, oral proficiency testing.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
  • Beginning Polish I , II
  • From Mickiewicz to Bialoszewski: The Evolution of Polish Poets' Self-Images from the Romantic Prophet to the 20th-Century Lyrical Minimalist
Baranczak, Stanislaw, Alfred Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Language and Literature, Harvard University @
Ph.D. , Adam Mickiewicz University. Poznan, 1973
Phone: (617) 495-5808 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: barancz@fas.harvard.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Modern Polish literature, Polish poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries, literary translation.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
HONORS
  • Recipient of the Nike Literary Prize, Poland's most coveted literary award, for his collection of 25 poems, Chirurgiczna precyzja. Eledie i piosenki z lat 1995-1997
BOOKS
  • A Fugitive from Utopia: The Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert (1987)
  • Breathing Under Water, and Other East European Essays (1990)
TRANSLATIONS
  • View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska ed. and transl. with Clare Cavanagh 1995
  • Laments by Jan Kochanowski, transl. with Seamus Heany, 1995,
  • Spoiling Cannibals' Fun': Polish Poetry of the Last Two Decades of Communist Rule: , Northwestern University Press, January 1992
Berend, Ivan T. , Professor of History and Director of Central European Studies, University of California/Los Angeles @
Ph.D., Eötvös Lóránd University, Hungary 1958
Phone: (310) 825-1178; (310) 825-4601 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: iberend@history.ucla.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Social, cultural and economic history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Binkowski, Don , District Judge, 37th District Court, Warren, MI (RET) @
JD, Wayne State Univ. Law, 1958
Phone: (828) 891-8442; / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: donb@ioa.com; don@binkowski.org
MAJOR INTERESTS:Polish-Americans in the work force, unions and Michigan politics
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • Poles Together: Leo Krzycki and Polish Americans in the American Labor Movement, Vol. 1, Philadelphia, Xlibris, 2001
  • Poles Together: Leo Krzycki and the Detroit Left, Vol. 2, Philadelphia, Xlibris, 2001
PUBLICATIONS
  • "Constitutional Vindication: The Untold Story of Senator Anthony Wilkowski," in Polish American Studies, Vol. LII, no. 1, 1995 Spring, pp. 71-88
Biskupski, Mieczyslaw , Professor, Holder of the Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies,
Central Connecticut State University @
Ph.D., Yale University
Phone: (860) 832-2800 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: BiskupskiM@ccsu.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: History of Modern Central Europe, particularly Poland.
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
  • Past President of Polish American Historical Association
BOOKS
  • The History of Poland, Westport CT: Greenwood, 2000
  • Edited (with J. Pula) Polish Democratic Thought from the Renaissance to the Great Emigration: Essays and Documents, New York, Columbia, 1990
  • Edited (with J. S. Pula) Selected Essays from the Fiftieth Anniversary Congress of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, New York, Columbia, 1994
    at University of Warsaw (1997)
Blackburn, Christopher A. , Assistant Professor of History, University of Louisiana at Monroe. @
Ph.D., Auburn University, 1996
Phone: (318) 342-1088 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: hiblackburn@ulm.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Late Eighteenth Century Poland; Napoleonic influence and events in Poland
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
COURSES TAUGHT
  • Europe, 1890-1945 (HIST 481)
PUBLICATIONS
  • Napoleon and the Szlachta. Boulder/New York: East European Monographs No. 497, distributed by Columbia University Press, 1998.
  • Tadeusz Kosciuszko (1746-1817) in Historic World Leaders. ed. Anne Commire. (Detroit, MI: Gale Research Inc., 1994), 2: 739-743
  • Reform or Renewal?: The Impact of the Napoleonic State on the Provencial Society of the Department Lubelski Annales: Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, Sectio F, vol. L (1995), 133-156.
  • Poles in the Confederacy? Who Let'em In!: The Grand Junction Riot of 1861 The West Tennessee Historical. 47 (1993), 11-17.
  • Prince Poniatowski finds an Army: West Galician Attitudes in 1809 22nd Proceedings of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe. (Tallahassee, FL: Institute for Napoleonic Studies, 1993), 215-222.
Blawzdziewicz, Jerzy , Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University @
Ph.D. University of Warsaw, Poland.
Phone: (203)432-7754 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: jerzy.blawzdziewicz@yale.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Theory and numerical simulations for microstructural evolution and macroscopic transport phenomena in complex fluids such as colloidal suspensions, emulsions, foams, and polymeric solutions.
Bobinski, George S. - Professor Emeritus, School of Information and Library Studies
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1966
Phone: 716 645-6481 / Fax: 716 645-3775 / Email: bobinski@acsu.buffalo.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Public libraries; history of libraries and media; academic libraries
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
AWARDS
  • Jagiellonian University Meritorious Medal, 1997
BOOKS
  • The Role of Libraries in the Democratic Process. Eds: Maria Kocojowa and George Bobinski, Krakow: Jagiellonian University, 1995
Bogucki, Peter I., Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Princeton @@@
Ph.D., Harvard University 1981
Phone: (609) 258-4554 / Fax: (609) 258-3996 / E-Mail: bogucki@princeton.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Early farming cultures of Europe and the spread of agricultural communities into temperate woodland environments
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP: excavations at Brześć Kujawski and Osłonki, Poland;
BOOKS
  • Early Neolithic Subsistence and Settlement in the Polish Lowlands, Oxford: BAR International Series 150, 1982
  • Forest Farmers and Stockherders. Early Agriculture and its Consequences in North-Central Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
  • The Origins of Human Society (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999)
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
  • "Neolithic manufacture of antler axes at Brzesc Kujawski, Poland," Archaeomaterials 4(1): 67-76. 1990 (with Ryszard Grygiel)
  • "The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age chronology of Poland," in Chronologies in Old World Archaeology, third edition, Robert W. Ehrich (ed.), pp. 362-374. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992
  • "Neolithic sites in the Polish lowlands: research at Brzesc Kujawski, Poland, 1933-1984," in Case Studies in European Prehistory, edited by Peter Bogucki, pp. 147-180. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 1993 (with Ryszard Grygiel)
  • "Sustainable and unsustainable adaptations by early farming communities of northern Poland," Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 1996
  • "Early farmers in north-central Europe: 1989-1994 excavations at Oslonki, Poland," Journal of Field Archaeology, 1997 (with Ryszard Grygiel)
  • "Holocene climatic variability and early agriculture in temperate Europe: the case of northern Poland," in Harvesting the Sea, Farming the Forest: the Emergence of Neolithic Societies in the Baltic Region and Adjacent Areas edited by Marek Zvelebil, Robin Dennell, and Lucyna Domanska, pp. 77-85. Sheffield Academic Press. 1998
  • "How agriculture came to north-central Europe," in Europe's First Farmers, edited by T. Douglas Price, pp.197-218. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
  • "Polish archaeology as world archaeology," Archaeologia Polona, 2002
WEBPAGES
Boruta-Sadkowski, Alicja, Instructor, Department of Modern Languages. University of Northern Iowa @
M.A., Warsaw University
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Phone: (319) 273-6951 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: boruta@uni.edu; alicja.boruta-sadkowski@uni.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: . . .
Brashear, Thomas G. - Assistant Professor, Marketing Department, University of Massachusetts/Amherst @
Ph.D., Georgia State University 1998
Phone: 413-545-5666 / E-Mail: Brashear@mktg.umass.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: His research currently focuses on sales management, international sales force development, research methodology, and business-to-business marketing.
POLAND-RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
  • International Marketing Management (Marketing 764) . Case studies on "Sony in Poland," and "Case: Harlequin Romances: Poland"
PUBLICATIONS
  • "A Test of Ad Appeal Effectiveness in Poland and the U.S.: The Interplay of Appeal, Product and Culture," with E. Lepowska-White and M.G. Weinberger, Journal of Advertising, 2003, 32, 3, 57-68.
Braun, Kazimierz - Professor of Directing, Department of Theater and Dance, University at Buffalo @
Ph.D. Poznan University, Poland, 1971
Dr.Hab. Wroclaw University, Poland, 1975
Dr.Hab. Warsaw University, Poland, 19885
Phone: 716 645-6898 x 1327 / Fax: 716 645-6992 / E-mail: kaz@acsu.buffalo.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: The Polish Theater
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
AWARDS
  • 1997: Chivalry Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in recognition of his outstanding work in Polish literature, theater and scholarship
THEATER PRODUCTIONS
  • 1995: Antigone in New York by Jacek Glowacki; 1997
  • The Ball of the Mannequins by Bruno Jasienski
PLAYS
  • Immigrant Queen, 1997
  • Tamara L, 2001
  • Paderewski's Children, 2004
BOOKS
  • A history of Polish theater. 1939-1989 : spheres of captivity and freedom Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1996
  • Pozegnanie z Alaska : powiesc emigracyjna (Goodby Alaska: An Emigrant Tale) Warszawa : Instytut Wydawniczy Pax, 1996
  • Wprowadzenie do Rezyserii (Introduction to Directing), Warsaw: Semper, 1998
  • Tajemince powszechne (Everyday Mysteries -Poems) Bernardinum, Poland: Pelplin, 1998
  • Theater Directing: Art, Ethics, Creativity (Studies in Theatre Arts), Edwin Mellen Press, 2000
  • A concise history of Polish theater from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, 2003
  • Day of witness : a novel tr. Zakrzewski C.A. Toronto : Omnibus Printers, 2002
Bristol, Evelyn C. , Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign @
Ph. D. University of California at Berkeley
Phone: (217) 333-3443 / Fax:...... / E-Mail: ebristol@staff.uiuc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS:Russian literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Russian poetry.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Bross, Addison C. , Professor of English, Lehigh University @
Ph.D., Louisiana State, 1967
Phone: 610-758-3331 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: acb2@lehigh.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS:Joseph Conrad, with special attention to Conrad's political notions as influenced by his Polish background.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS
  • "Beerbohm's `The Feast' and Conrad's Early Fiction," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 1971
  • "Almayer's Folly and the Polish Debate about Materialism," in Conrad: The Past and Future Splendor, Columbia U P, 1999.
  • "Apollo Korzeniowski's Mythic Vision: Poland and Muscovy," The Conradian, 1995
Bruzik, Karol S. , Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago @ @
Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences, 1980
Phone: 312-996-4576 / Fax: 312-996-7107 / E-Mail: kbruzik@uic.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Bio-organic chemistry. Mechanisms of phosphotransferases. Synthesis of biophosphate analogs as inhibitors and probes of enzyme mechanism
Buchowski Michal, Visiting Professor, Center of Russian, Central and East European Studies, Rutgers University @
Ph.D.
Phone: (48 61) 829-4701 x 4717 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: dhist@amu.edu.pl
MAJOR INTERESTS: Anthropology of Central European societies and culture, rural anthropology, and modes of thought and systems of beliefs.
POLAND/AMERICA TRANSATLANTIC SCHOLARSHIP:
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
  • Rutgers University/New Brunswick 2001-2002
COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
  • The Other in Poland and Central Europe
BOOKS
  • Rethinking Transformation. An Anthropological Perspective on Postsocialism, Humaniora, Poznan 2001 (pp.217)
AFFILIATION IN POLAND:
Professor of Social Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.
Buczkowski, Mieczyslaw (Mischa) , Slavic Librarian, University of Oregon
M.A. Theology, Lateran University, Rome
M.A. Sociology, Lateran University, Rome
M.A. International Affairs, California State University, Sacramento
M.L.S., Simmons College
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
COURSES
Bujarski, Jozef, Presidential Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University @
Ph.D., Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, 1987
Phone: (815) 753-0601 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: jbujarski@niu.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Plant Molecular Biology; Molecular Virology
Bukoski, Anthony V. - Professor of English, Department of Language and Literature @
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Phone: (715) 394-8471/ Fax: . . . . . . . . . / e-mail: ABUKOSKI@facstaff.uwsuper.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: - Writing short stories largely set amid Superior's East End, where Bukoski grew up.
POLAND-RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
HONORS
  • Recipient of 2002 Sarmatian Review Literary Prize awarded by the Polish Institute of Houston
  • Named the 2002 R.V. Cassill Fellow in Fiction from The Christopher Isherwood Foundation @
  • Recipient of the 2000 Anne Powers Book-length Fiction Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers for his book Polonaise
  • Publication of Polish translations of his short stories in Akcent (Lublin) and Arcana (Krakow)
BOOKS
  • Time Between Trains: Stories (Southern Methodist University Press, 2003)
  • Polonaise: Stories (Southern Methodist University Press, 1998)
  • Children of Strangers: Stories (Southern Methodist University Press, 1993)
  • Twelve Below Zero: Stories (1986)
ARTICLES
Bukowczyk, John J. , Professor of History, Wayne State University @
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1980
Phone: (313) 577-2799 / Fax: (313) 577-6987 / E-Mail: aa2092@wayne.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Polish-American Studies
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • And My Children Did Not Know Me: A History of the Polish-Americans, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987
    • Winner of Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University
    • Co-winner of Oscar Halecki Award (Best Book), Polish American Historical Association.
EDITED VOLUMES
  • Polish Americans and Their History: Community, Culture, and Politics, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
  • "Polish Americans," in The Oxford Companion to United States History, ed. M. Dubofsky et. al. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)
  • "The Image and Self-Image of Polish Americans," Polish American Studies 55, no. 2 (Autumn 1998): 63-71
  • The Poles' Other/The Poles as Other, Fiedorczyk Lecture in Polish American Studies, 1999 (New Britain: Polish Studies Program, Central Connecticut State University, 1998)
  • "Polish Americans, Ethnicity, and Otherness," The Polish Review 43, no 3 (1998): 259-279
  • Guest Editor and "Introduction," The Poles in America, special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History 16, no. 1 (Fall 1996): 3-15.
COURSES
  • History of the Polish Experience in America
Bulgakova, Oksana , Visiting Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Stanford University @
Ph.D., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 1982
Phone: (650) 326 90 05 / Fax: (650) 649 31 10 / E-Mail: oksana@stanford.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Eastern European Cinema
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Bystydzienski. Jill M., Professor of Sociology, Iowa State University @
Ph.D., SUNY Albany
Phone: 515-294-9733 / E-Mail: bystydj@iastate.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Women's movements in international perspective. The emergence of feminist movements in East and Central Europe, and especially in Poland.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS
  • "Poland: Gender Discrimination Unrecognized." in Humanity and Society 22
Bzymek, Zbigniew , Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs @
Ph.D., Warsaw University of Technology, 1967
Phone#: (860) 486-5088 / Fax: (860) 486-5088 / E-Mail: bzymek@engr.uconn.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Theory and practice of engineering design and modeling of engineering systems, intelligent CAD, and expert systems for engineering design.
Caflisch, Jacob , Professor, Theoretical Linguistics, University of South Florida @
Ph.D. Indiana University, 1974
Phone: 813. 974.3658 / Fax: 813. 974.1718 / E-Mail: caflisch@chuma1.cas.usf.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Linguistic theory; Slavic & Altaic linguistics; Cognitive Domain-theory
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
PRESENTATIONS::
  • The pro-drop continuum in Czech, Polish, Russian, and Serbian-Croätian.Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 1997
  • Pragmatosemantic filters in parameter theory for pro-drop in Czech, Polish, and Russian.Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 1996
Carmel, Erran Associate Professor ,Kogod School of Business, American University @
Ph.D., Arizona University
Phone: (202) 885-1928 / Fax: (202) 885-1992 / E-Mail: carmel@american.edu.
MAJOR INTERESTS: Global software development
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • Global Software Teams:Collaborating Across Borders and Time Zones, Prentice Hall PTR 1999
COURSES
  • Impacts of National Information Technology Environments on Business, which contains studies of various countries , including Poland @
Carpenter, Bogdana , Professor, Slavic Language and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor @
Ph.D., University of California, Berkley, 1974
Phone#: (734) 763-5715 / Fax: (734) 647-2127 / E-Mail: bogdana@umich.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS:20th century Polish literature with special interest in Polish and European avantgarde, and modern European drama
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
COURSES TAUGHT
  • Polish Literature from 1863 till present (POL 246),
  • Seminar in Polish Literature (POL 432),
  • Arts and Cultures of Central Europe (SLAV 225)
PUBLICATIONS
  • Translations (with J. Carpenter) of two poems by Bronislaw Maj, Chicago Review, October 2000.
  • Translations (with J. Carpenter) of Zbigniew Herbert's individual poems appeared in the following magazines: The New York Review of Books, March 9, 2000; and May 25, 2000; The Paris Review, no. 154, Spring 2000; The Manhattan Review vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 2000; Chicago Review, October 2000; Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2000.
  • An entry on Zbigniew Herbert in Contemporary World Dictionary of Literary Biographies 4: South Slavic and Eastern European Writing, 2000.
  • For 16 other publications see bibliography.
Carter, Ronnie, Professor of English @
Phone: 765 973-8247 / Fax: 765-973-8485 / E-Mail: dcarter@indiana.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Translating Jack London books into Polish; Hemingway on the Polish stage.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
AWARDS
  • Fulbright Scholar in Poland for the academic year 1995-96
  • President's Council on International Programs grantee for a year's study in Poland in 1997.
  • Taught an MA seminar at Warsaw University's American Study Center on North American literature and the Western novel.
BOOKS
  • Opowiadania Pó³nocy (Jack London: Northland Tales) Carter, R. D., ed., and K. Molek, trans., Warsaw, Poland: Da Capo Press, 1997.;
  • Samuel i inne opowiandia (Jack London: Samuel and Other Stories). Carter, R. D., ed., and K. Molek, trans. , Warsaw, Poland: Da Capo Press, 1997. @
ESSAYS
Caswell, Julie A. - Professor of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts/Amherst @
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin 1984
Phone: (413)-545-5735 / E-Mail: caswell@resecon.umass.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: The operation of domestic and international food systems; evaluation of the effects of government policy. The economics of food quality, especially the quality attributes of safety and nutrition.
POLAND-RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
  • The Regulation of Business Practices in a Market Economy, the 1994 Polish-American Summer School in Economics, Pozna?
Cavanagh, Clare, A. , Associate Professor, Slavic and Gender Studies, Northwestern University @
Ph.D., Harvard University
Phone: (847) 491-8252 / Fax:...... / E-Mail: ccavanagh5@northwestern.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS:Modern Polish Poetry. Polish Literature and Culture. Comparative Modernism: Russian, Polish, English, French
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
TRANSLATIONS
  • View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska, with Stanislaw Baranczak, Harcourt Brace, 1995
    • Winner, 1996 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for, outstanding literary translation
    • 1996 AATSEEL Prize for outstanding literary translation
    • cited by Swedish Academy as an "excellent survey" in press announcement of Szymborska's Nobel Prize.
  • Poems New and Collected, by Wislawa Szymborska, with Stanislaw Baranczak, Harcourt Brace, 1998
    • A Los Angeles Times Outstanding Book of the Year.
  • Mysticism for Beginners, by Adam Zagajewski, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998.
    • A Los Angeles Times Outstanding Book of the Year.
  • Another Beauty, by Adam Zagajewski, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.
COURSES
Ceglarek, Dariusz , Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering , University of Wisconsin-Madison @
M.Sc. Warsaw University of Technology, 1987
Ph.D., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1994
Phone#: (608) 265-3457 / Fax: (608) 262-8454 / E-Mail: darek@engr.wisc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Manufacturing process performance and quality improvement Design and manufacturing with emphasis on: Reconfigurable/reusable assembly systems; Fusion of design and manufacturing characteristics with statistics; Automotive design and manufacturing. @@
Chelmicka-Schorr, Ewa , Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, University of Chicago @
M.D. Academy of Medicine, Warsaw
Phone: (773] 702-6394 / Fax: . . . / e-mail: echelmic@neurology.bsd.uchicago.ed
MAJOR INTERESTS: The effect of Sympathetic Nervous System on the immune system.
POLAND-RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
Cholewa, Marek., Associate Professor of Dance @
Studies at the National School of Ballet in Poznan
Phone: / Email: cholewa@butler.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Areas of special expertise are the full Vaganova syllabus, the entire Petipa repertoire (learned in St. Petersburg under Petipa expert Peter A. Gusiev) and Slavic Character Dance.
Chomicki, Jan - Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo @
M.S., Warsaw University, 1979
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1990.
Phone: (716) 645-3180 / Fax: (716) 645-3464 / E-Mail: homicki@buffalo.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Logical foundations of databases; database integrity and interoperability; spatiotemporal databases; policy management; electronic commerce and agent-based systems.
Cienciala, Anna , Professor Emerita of History and Russian and East European Studies, Kansas University @
Ph.D., University of Indiana, 1962
Phone: (785) 864-3569 / Fax: ...... / E-Mail: annacien@ukans.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: European Diplomatic History with emphasis on Poland, 1914-45; Modern Poland.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • Poland and the Western Powers, 1938-1939. A Study in the Interdependence of Eastern and Western Europe, with Titus Komarnicki, London, Toronto, 1968
  • From Versailles to Locarno. Keys to Polish Foreign Policy, 1919-1925, ed. with Headlam-Morley J. W., Lawrence, KS., 1984;
  • A Memoir of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, London, 1972
PUBLICATIONS
  • "The Munich Crisis of 1938: Plans and Strategy in Warsaw in the Context of the Western Appeasement of Germany," in Lukas and Goldstein, eds., The Munich Crisis, 1938. Prelude to World War II (Frank Cass: London, 1999)
Clark, Joanna Rostropowicz, Lecturer, Rutgers University @@
M. A. Warsaw University
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Phone: (732) 932-7604; (609) 921-3348 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: Rostrop@aol.com
MAJOR INTERESTS: Literary criticism and Polish-Jewish relations
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Clyman, Toby , Professor and Director of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, State University of New York at Albany
PhD, New York University
tel: (518) 442-4228 / fax: (518) 442-4217 / Email:twc78@cnsvax.albany.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: 19th and 20th century Russian and Polish literature, Russian women's literature
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
PRESENTATIONS
  • Polish-Jewish youth Autobiographies of the 1930s presented at the international conference on "Ashkenaz: Theory and Nation," at the Jagelonian University in Krakow
Cole, Daniel H., M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law @@
J.S.D. Stanford Law School, 1996.
Phone: (317) 274-2340 / Fax: (317) 278-3326 / E-Mail: dcole@iupui.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: environmental and natural resources law, international environmental law, and property. He also writes extensively about Poland and Polish law.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • Instituting Environmental Protection: From Red to Green in Poland, New York, St. Martin's 1998
  • Environmental Protection in Transition: Economic, Legal, and Socio-Political Perspectives on Poland, Ashgate 1998 (co-edited with John Clark)
ARTICLES
  • From Renaissance Poland to Poland's Renaissance: Reflections on Mark Brzezinski's "The Struggle for Constitutionalism in Poland," Michigan Law Review, 97: 2062-2102, 1999.
WORKING PAPERS
Connelly, John , Associate Professor of History, University of California @
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1994
Phone: (510) 642-6779 / Fax: (510) 643-5323 / Email: jfconnel@uclink.berkeley.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Modern East and Central European Political and Social History
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
  • Fulbright research grants, Poland, 1982
  • Polish government scholarship for study of Polish History, Krakow, 1983-85
BOOKS
  • Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956 (2000)
  • "The Sovietization of Higher Education in the Czech Lands, East Germany, and Poland During the Stalinist period (1948-54)", in Gyorgy Peteri and Michael-David Fox, eds. Academia in Upheaval (Greenwood, 2000)
ARTICLES
  • "Foundations for Reconstructing Elites: Higher Education Policies in the Czech Lands, East Germany, and Poland, 1945-1948", East European Politics and Societies, Fall 1996
COURSES
Crago, Laura , Assistant Professor of History and Kellogg Institute Fellow @
Ph.D. Yale, 1993
Phone: 219 631-7260 / E-Mail: Crago.1@nd.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: East-Central European history, especially the social and political history of Poland. Professor Crago is currently researching the Polish labor movement between World War I and World War II
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP: Has taught course on the history of Poland and Eastern Europe.
Cygan, Mary , E. , Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut/Stamford @ @
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Phone: (203) 251-8426 / Fax . . . / E-Mail: cygan@uconnvm.uconn.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: The Polish American family, religion and popular culture.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
CHAPTERS
  • "Inventing Polonia: Notions of Polish American Identity, 1870-1990," Prospects, Cambridge University Press, 23 (1998): 209-246
  • "Polish American Socialism," in Immigrant Radicalism, Paul Buhle and Dan Georgakas, eds., Albany, SUNY Press, 1996):148-184
  • "Polish Women and Emigrant Husbands," in Roots of the Transplanted eds. Hoerder D. and Rossler, H., Columbia University Press, 1994, pp: 359-374.
  • "The New Art: Polish American Radio Comedy During the 1930's." Polish American Studies, XLV 1988: 5-21.
  • "Ethnic Parish as Compromise, The Spheres of Clerical and Lay Authority in a Polish American Parish, 1909-1930." Occasional Papers Series13, South Bend: Cushwa Center at Notre Dame University, 1983: pp 1-37.
Czubinski, Zbigniew A. , Adjunct Professor, Institute of Political Science, Jagiellonian University @
Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1984
Phone: . . . . . / Fax: . . . . . . / e-mail: kateurop@if.uj.edu.pl
MAJOR INTERESTS: Poland, the European Union and NATO.
POLAND-RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS
  • "The European Union and the Transformation in Central Europe: European Democratic Establishment" in Osterreichische Gesellschaft fur Mitteleuropaishe Studien, Vol. 7, (Vienna, Poznan: 1996)
Czuchajowski, Leszek , Professor, Computer and Electrical Engineering, University of Idaho, Boise
Ph.D., University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, 1957
d. Hab., University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, 1961
Phone: (208) 885-6768 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: . . .
MAJOR INTERESTS: Synthesis of porphyrinyl-nucleosides
Czygrinow, Andrzej , Assistant Faculty of Mathematics, Arizona State University-West
M.Sc., Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland1994
Ph.D., Emory University 1998
Phone: . (480) 965 2352 / Fax: . . . . . . . . / Email: andrzej@math.la.asu.edu
MAJOR INTEREST: Mathematics
Dabrowska, Dorota , Professor, Biostatistics and Statistics, Universtiy of California, Los Angeles. @
M.S. University of Warsaw, 1978
Ph.D., University of California, 1984
Phone: (310) 206-9624 / Fax: (310) 267-2113 / E-Mail: dorota@brahms.ph.ucla.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Statistical methods for analysis of multiple event times which arise for example in familial survival studies or complex multistage diseases.
Dabrowski, Konrad , Professor, School of Natural Resources, Ohio State University. @
Ph.D, Agriculture University, Olsztyn, 1976
D.Sc. Agricultural University, Szczecin, 1984
Phone: (614) 292-4555/ / E-Mail: Dabrowski.1@osu.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Fish physiology, nutrition, and reporduction particularly metabolism and requirement of ascorbic acid and tocopherol. Evolutionary aspects of ascorbic acid synthesis in aquatic animals.
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
PUBLICATIONS
  • Mechanism of establishing bimodality in a size distribution of age +0 pike perch, Stizostedion lucioperca (L.) in the Sulejow Reservoir, Central Poland. Frankiewicz, P., K. Dabrowski and M. Zalewski. 1996. Ann. Zool. Fennici 33:321-327.
Daun, Henryk, Professor of Food Science, Cook College, Rutgers University @ @
D.T.S., Gdansk Technical University
Phone: (732) 932-9611 x.230 / Fax: (732) 932-6776 / E-Mail: daun@aesop.rutgers.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Food processing technology
Dawson, Jane , Virginia Eason Weinmann '51 Associate Professor of Government, Connecticut College @
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993
Phone: (860) 447-2385 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: jidaw@locust.conncoll.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Comparative environmental politics; Post-Soviet and East European politics; transitions to democracy; comparative social movements; nationalism.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
  • The Politics of Eastern Europe
Day, Marek , Research Fellow, Jagiellonian University   [Permanent position: Department of Law, University of Leeds, UK]
Ph.D. University of Warwick, 1999
Phone: . . . . . . / Fax: . . . . . . / e-mail: s.r.day@leeds.ac.uk
MAJOR INTERESTS: Central and Eastern Europe's Political and Social History in the 20th Century
POLAND-RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
CHAPTERS
  • `Poland: Significance and Limitations of the Democratization Process' - in Gerd Nonnemon (ed.) - Economic and Political Liberalization: An International Comparison - (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner, 1996).
  • "From the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic (SdRP) to the Democratic Left Alliance' - in Hieronim Kubiak (ed.) - Political Parties and their Social Matrix - (Warsaw: Scholar Agency, Warsaw, 2000)
Demerath, Nicholas Jay, III. , Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts/Amherst @ @
Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley) 1964
Phone: (413) 545-4068 / Fax: (413) 545-3204/ E-Mail: demerath@soc.umass.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Culture-Religion, Organizations-Movements, Politics, Theory
POLAND-RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • Crossing the Gods: World Religions and Worldly Politics, New Brunswick, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2001
DeLaura, James A. , Professor of Manufacturing and Construction Management, Central Connecticut State University @
Ed.D., University of Northern Colorado, Certified Manufacturing Engineer
Phone: (860) 832-1840 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: Delaura@ccsu.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Technology Management
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
INSTRUCTION
Derewenda, Zygmunt , Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics, University of Virginia
Ph.D., University of Lodz, 1981
Phone#: (434) 243-6842/ Fax: . . . / E-Mail: zsd4n@virginia.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Protein structure and function; macromolecular crystallography; mechanisms of signaling by small GTPases; protein-protein interactions
Dickson, Jean E. - Associate Librarian
M.A. University of Chicago
Phone: 716 645-2814 x 425 / Fax: 716 645-3859 / E-Mail: dickson@acsu.buffalo.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Collection development for French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish literatures and languages.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP: Curator of the Polish Collection
Dienes, Leslie Professor of Geography, Unversity of Kansas @
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1968
Phone: (785) 864-5537 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: dienes@ku.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Energy, Economics, Eastern Europe, Russia
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
  • Geography of Eastern Europe
Dollar, Marek , Professor and Dean of School of Engineeringa and Applied Sciences, Miami University, Ohio @
Ph.D., University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, 1981
Phone#: (513) 529-4040 / Fax: (513) 529-4036 / E-Mail: dollarm@muohio.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Materials science and engineering, mechanical and physical metallurgy
Dompkowski, Judith A. , Professor of English, Canisius College @
Ph.D., University at Buffalo 1983
Phone: 716 888 2656 / Fax: 716 888 2525 / E-mail: dompkowj@canisius.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Modern English literature with emphasis on the writers of the "Other Europe." The study of Czeslaw Milosz's uncollected poems
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
BOOKS
  • Down a spiral staircase, never-ending: motion as design in the writing of Czeslaw Milosz. New York: P. Lang, 1990.
FILMS
  • Scriptwriter for the 1985 short feature Issa Valley (Joe Steinmetz, producer) based on a fragment of Czeslaw Milosz's novel of the same title.
OTHER
Donachie, Stuart Peter, Scientist, Department of Microbiology @
Ph.D., Institute of Ecology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 1995
Phone: (808) 956-6945 / Fax: (808) 956-5339 / Email: donachie@soest.hawaii.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Microbial Diversity, Extremophiles, Discovery of Novel Microorganisms, Bacterial Systematics
Dowling, Barbara Tolley , Instructor, English Language Institute, Oregon State University @
Phone: 541-737-6989 / E-mail: barbara.dowling@orst.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Teaching English as a second language.
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES: Has taught and consulted in Poland.
Downing, John , Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1974
Phone: 512-471-6680 / E-mail: jdowning@mail.utexas.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS:International and ethnicity/racism studies.
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
BOOKS
  • Internationalizing Media Theory: Reflections on Russia, Poland and Hungary, 1980-95.
Dunn Elizabeth, C. , Assistant Professor, Geography and International Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder @
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1998
Phone: 303-492-5388 / Fax: . . . . . / E-Mail: Elizabeth.Dunn@Colorado.EDU
MAJOR INTERESTS: Geography, human anthropology, and work focusing on the industrial reorganization in Poland.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • The Fruits of Change: Privatization, Personhood, and the Transformation of Work in Postsocialist Poland
PUBLICATIONS
  • "Trojan Pig: Paradoxes of Food Safety in Postsocialist Poland", forthcoming in Environment and Planning A
Dydak, Jerzy - Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee @
Ph.D., Warsaw University
Phone: (865) 974-4322 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: dydak@math.utk.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Geometric and Algebraic Topology - geometric and algebraic ideas in dimension theory.

Dziewanowski, M. Kamil (deceased) - Professor Emeritus of History, Univeristy of Wisconsin - Milwaukee @
Ph.D., Harvard
Phone: . . . / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: . . . /Address: . . .
MAJOR INTERESTS: Poland, Central Europe
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
RECOGNITION
  • "M. Kamil Dziewanowski and the Study of Contemporary Poland." Article by Paul J. Best in The Polish Review 22:3 (1977): 107-109.
BOOKS
  • Joseph Pilsudski: A European Federalist, 1918-1922 (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1969)
PUBLICATIONS
Endelman, Todd., Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan @ @
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1976
Phone: (734) 764-7308 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: endelman@umich.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: The social history of the Jews in Western Europe and Anglo-Jewish history.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
  • Modern Jewish History to 1880
Engel, David , Professor Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University @
B.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1979, California (Los Angeles)
Phone: 212 998-8974 / fax: 212 995-4178 / E-mail: de2@is.nyu.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: History of the Jews in Eastern Europe, Holocaust, Zionism and Israel.
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
BOOKS
  • Between Liberation and Flight: Holocaust Survivors in Poland and the Struggle for Leadership, 1944- 1946, in Hebrew. Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers. 1996;
  • Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943-1945. University of North Carolina Press. 1987
  • In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1939-1942, University of North Carolina Press. 1987.
Ehrenfeucht, Andrzej , Professor, Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder @
Ph.D., Mathematical Institute of P.A.N., Warsaw
Phone: (303) 492-7212 / Fax: (303) 492-2844 / E-Mail: Andrzej.Ehrenfeucht@Colorado.EDU
MAJOR INTERESTS: Theory of computation, combinatorics, mathematical biology
Evtuhov, Catherine, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1991
Phone: (202) 687-6197 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: evtuhovc@georgetown.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: History of ideas, culture and society in Russia, with particular attention to their European context.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES

 

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