Tec, Nechama , Professor of Sociology , University of Connecticut/Stamford @
Ph.D. Columbia University
Phone: (203) 251-8539 / Fax: (203) 227-2439 / Email: nechama.tec@uconn.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Issues relating to the Holocaust, including compassion, altruism, resistance to evil and the rescue of the Jews during World War II.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland Oxford University Press, 1986
Thurmaier, Kurt , Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Kansas.
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1991.
Phone: (785) 864-3851 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: thurmaier@ku.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: State and local public budgeting and finance, intergovernmental relations, and development administration in developing nations and the newly democratized nations of Central and Eastern Europe.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Fulbright Scholar, School of Local Self-Government, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Krakow,, 1992-93
REPORTS
  • Using the Program Budget Model as a Tool for Local Development: Reforms in Lublin and Krakow, Poland, IMIS Monograph Series For Eastern Europe, Monograph prepared for Office of Housing and Urban Programs, US Agency for International Development, and the International City/County Management Association, Washington, DC, June 1995.
  • The Budget as a Policy, Management, and Communications Tool: Improving the Capacity To Budget In Lublin, Poland, Report prepared for Office of Housing and Urban Programs, US Agency for International Development, and the International City/County Management Association, Washington, DC, November 1994,(with Roger Kroh).
ARTICLES
  • "The Evolution of Local Government Budgeting in Poland: From Accounting to Policy in a Leap and a Bound, " in Public Budgeting and Finance 14(4), Winter 1994: 83-96.
  • "Primary School Decentralization in Poland: Nurturing the Roots of Democracy," in In Depth: A Journal of Values and Public Policy," 5(2) 1997: 1-22, (with Pawel Swianiewicz).
CHAPTERS
  • "Decentralization in Poland: shifting primary education administration to local self-government," in Urban And Regional Management In Countries In Transition, Chatterji, B. and R. Domanski, eds. (Warsaw: PWN, 1996), pp. 251-266 (with Pawel Swianiewicz).
Timberlake, Alan , Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures @
Ph.D., Harvard
Phone: (510) 642.1230 / Fax: (510) 642-6220 / E-Mail: timber@socrates.berkeley.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Descriptive grammar of Slavic languages including West Slavic
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Tolczyk, Dariusz , Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia, Charlottesville @
Ph.D., Harvard University
Phone: (434) 924-4015 / Fax:.... / E-Mail: dt8n@virginia.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Russian and Polish Literature, literature and ideology, Soviet Camp literature
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
  • Russian and Polish Literature
  • Literature and Ideology
  • Soviet camp literature
PUBLICATIONS
  • "Od Lubianki do Internetu (O pamiecie literatury), Gazeta Wyborcza, 12, August, 1997
Trochimczyk Maja, (aka Maria Anna Harley) Former Director, Polish Music Center, University of Southern California @
Ph.D. McGill University, 1994
Phone: . . . / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: majat@verizon.net
MAJOR INTERESTS: The history and aesthetics of 20th-century music, Polish composers (Bacewicz, Lutoslawski), women composers, philosophy of music, and music ecology
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Editor of the Polish Musical Journal
BOOKS
  • After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music, Los Angeles, Polish Music Center at USC, 2000
ARTICLES
  • "Paderewski in Poetry: Master of Harmonies or Poland's Savior?" in "From Poland to America: Paderewski and Polish Emigre Composers;" special issue of the Polish Music Journal 4:, Summer 2001
  • "Chopin and Women Composers: Collaborations, Imitations, Inspirations." in The Polish Review 45: #1, 29-52, 2000
  • "Górecki and the Paradigm of the 'Maternal.'" in. The Musical Quarterly, 82: #1, 82-130, 1998
  • "Bacewicz, Picasso and the Making of Desire." in Journal of Musicological Research 16: #4, 243-282, 1997
Tuch, Steven A. , Professor of Sociology, George Washington University @
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1973
Fulbright Fellowship, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University 1997-98
Phone: (202) 994-4780 / Fax: . . . . . . . . . / e-mail: steve@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Race relations, stratification, inequality, and mobility, public opinion, survey research, quantitative methods
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PRESENTATIONS
  • "Beliefs about inequality in post-Communist societies: A preliminary look." at Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, 1999
Turaj, Frank , Professor of Literature and American Studies, American University @
Ph.D., Brown University
Phone: (202) 885-2992 / Fax: (202) 885-2938 / E-Mail: fturaj@american.edu.
MAJOR INTERESTS: American Conservatism, the Cinema
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • The Modern Cinema of Poland with B. Michalek, Indiana University Press, 1988
CHAPTERS
  • "Poland" In Post New Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, D.J. Goulding ed., Indiana University Press, 1989
Valentino, Russell S, Associate Professor, Russian/Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa @ @
Ph.D. California-Los Angeles, 1993
Phone: (319) 335-2193 / Fax: ... / E-Mail: russell-valentino@uiowa.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: European cultural history; Literary translation
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Venclova, Tomas , Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Yale University @ @ @
M.A. University of Vilnius
Phone: (203)432-1304 / Fax: . . ./ E-Mail: tomas.venclova@yale.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: 19th and 20th-century Russian, Polish and Lithuanian literature
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast, Yale University Press, 1996
ARTICLES
von Hagen, Mark L. , Director, The Harriman Institute; Professor, Department of History, Columbia University @
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1985
Phone: [212] 854-6213/4623 / Fax: (212) 666-3481 / E-Mail: mlv2@columbia.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Hiostory of Russian Nation and Empire; Ukraine
POLAND RELATED ACTIVITIES:
COURSES
  • History of Modern Poland
Vorndran, Eva , Polish Language Coordinator, German and Slavic Language Department, George Washington University
Phone: . . . . . . . . . / Fax: . . . . . . . . . / e-mail: eva@gwu.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Polish Language Instruction
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
  • Basic Polish and Second-Year Polish
Waclawik, Andrew , Professor of Neurology, University of Wisconsin, Madison @
M.D., Warsaw Medical Academy, Warsaw, Poland, 1982
Phone: (608) 263-7539 / Fax: (608) 263-0412 / E-Mail: Waclawik@neurology.wisc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Pathology and Pathogenesis of Neuromuscular Disorders, In vitro techniques for studies of degeneration and regeneration of nerve and muscle.
Walaszek, Adam , Professor, Polonia Research Institute, Jagiellonian University @
Ph.D. Jagiellonian University, 1981 Dr. Hab. Jagiellonian University, 1974
Phone: (12) 421-98-22 x 373 / Fax: . . . . . . / e-mail: kateurop@if.uj.edu.pl
MAJOR INTERESTS: History of Eastern European Immigration to America
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • Swiaty emigrantów: tworzenie polonijnego Cleveland 1880-1930 Kraków, 1999: Nomos
Wasik, Mariusz A. , Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania @
M.D., Wroclaw Medical Academy
Phone: (215) 662-3467 / Fax: . . ./ E-Mail: wasik@mail.med.upenn.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Identification and characterization of oncoproteins which contribute to transformation of T lymphocytes and development of malignant lymphoma.
Weeks, Theodore R. , Associate Professor of History, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale @@
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1992
Phone: 618.453.7874 / Fax: fax 618.453.5440 / E-Mail: tadeusz@siu.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Ethnic Relations and Assimilation; Polish-Jewish relations during the period 1855 to 1914 and the effect thereon of the restrictions placed by the Russian authorities on Polish culture and political life.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
ESSAYS
  • "A National Triangle: Lithuanians, Poles and the Russian Imperial Government."  In Catherine Evtuhov, Boris Gasparov et al., eds. Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg: Multiple Faces of the Russian Empire.  Moscow: O.G.I., 1997, pp. 365-380.
ARTICLES
  • "Nationality and Municipality: Reforming City Government In the Kingdom of Poland,"  Russian History/Histoire Russe, XXI, No. 1 (Spring 1994), 23-47.
  • "Defining Us and Them: Poles and Russians in the 'Western Provinces', 1863-1914," Slavic Review, LIII, No. 1 (Spring 1994), 26-40.
  • "Lithuanians, Poles and the Russian Imperial Government at the Turn of the Century," Journal of Baltic Studies, XXV, No. 4 (Winter 1994), 289-304.
  • "Defending Our Own: Government and the Russian Minority in the Kingdom of Poland, 1905-1914," The Russian Review, LIV, No. 4 (October 1995), 539-551.
  • "The 'End' of the Uniate Church in Russia: The Vozsoedinenie of 1875," Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, XLIV (1995), 1-13.
  • "Polish 'Progressive Antisemitism,' 1905-1914."  East European Jewish Affairs, XXV, No. 2 (1995), 49-68.
  • "Poles, Jews, and Russians 1863-1914: The Death of the Ideal of Assimilation in the Kingdom of Poland."  South East European Monitor, III, No. 3 (1996), 36-54.
  • "The 'International Jewish Conspiracy' Reaches Poland: Teodor Jeske-Choi ski and His Works."  East European Quarterly, XXI, No. 1 (March 1997), 21-41.
  • "Fanning the Flames: Jews in the Warsaw Press,1905-1912."  East European Jewish Affairs (November 1998).
  • "Polish Jews and Jewish Poles: Assimilation in Russian Poland, 1863-1914."  Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies, vol. 12 (1999).
  • "Polish-Jewish Relations, 1903-1914: The View From the Chancellory," Canadian Slavonic Papers XL, 3-4, September-December 1998, pp. 233-249
COURSES
Weinberger, Marc G. , Professor of Marketing, University of Massachusetts/Amherst @
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1976
Phone: (413) 545-5674 / Fax: (413) 545-3858 / E-Mail: MARCW@MKTG.UMASS.EDU
MAJOR INTERESTS: Communication, the marketplace, market share, brand value and company valuation.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
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.
Weinstein, Marc , Assistant Professor of Management , University of Oregon @
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
Phone: (541) 346-3292 / E-Mail: marcw@oregon.uoregon.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Role of international and national institutions in the economic transition in Central Europe. Negotiations and Conflict Resolution; Reward Systems; Strategic Human Resource Management.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS
  • From Co-Governance to Ungovernability: The Reconfiguration of Polish Industrial Relations, 1980 1993, in K. Wever and L. Turner, eds., The Comparative Political Economy of Industrial Relations. Madison: IRRA Press, 1995.
  • "Unionists Against Unions: Towards Hierarchical Management in Post-Communist Poland," with D. Ost, Eastern European Politics and Society forthcoming
  • "Competing Approaches to Compensation in Post-Socialist Poland: Understanding the Origins of Divergent Human Resource Strategies," ed. D. Denison, Organizational Change in Transition Economies
Weiss, David , Professor of English , Hobart and William Smith Colleges @
M.F.A.
tel:(315) 781 3644 / Email:Weiss@hws.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Author of two collections of poems, The Pail of Steam, and The Fourth Part of the World, and of the novel The Mensch. He has published poems and essays in The New Yorker, Parnassus, Partisan Review
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
  • Resident faculty member in Krakow, Poland program 1997-1998
COURSES
  • 20th-Century Central European Fiction: from Kafka to Kundera
Wertz, Christopher, Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Russian, University of Iowa @
Phone: 319 337 5041 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: christopher-wertz@uiowa.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: . . .
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
  • First and Second Year Polish
Westwalewicz, Piotr, Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan @ @
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1998
Phone: (734) 764 5355 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: pwestwal@umich.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Russian & Polish Literature .
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
  • Second-Year Polish
  • Fourth-Year Polish
Wheatley, Christopher J. , Ordinary Professor of English, Catholic University of America @
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987
Phone: (202) 319-5488; (202) 319-5600 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: WHEATLEY@CUA.EDU
MAJOR INTERESTS: American Drama; Restoration & 18th Century British/Irish Drama; Thornton Wilder
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Fulbright Lecturer, Adam Mickiewicz Univ., Poznan, 2000-2001
Wieczerzak, Joseph W., Emeritus Professor of History, Bronx Community College, City University of New York@
Ph.D.
MAJOR INTERESTS: Polish American History
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
  • Editor The Polish Review, The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, New York
BOOKS
  • Bishop Francis Hodur, Biographical Essays, East European Monographs, Columbia University Press, New York, 1999, pp320
  • A Polish chapter in Civil War America; the effects of the January insurrection on American opinion and diplomacy, New York, Twayne Publishers, New York, 1967, pp264
  • The ethnic dimension in American society LaGumina, S. J. et al., Contibuting ed., Holbrook Press, Boston : 1974
Wilamowski, Bogdan Maciej ,Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and in Computer Science Department,University of Idaho @
Ph.D., Technical University of Gdansk, Poland 1970
d. Hab., Technical University of Gdansk, Poland 1970
Phone: (208) 364-4083 / Fax: (208) 387-1246 / E-Mail: wilam@uidaho.edu ; wilam@ieee.org
MAJOR INTERESTS: Digital hardware, mixed signal microelectronics, CAD development, VLSI design, network programming, and soft computing
Willis, Cleve E. , Professor of Resource Economics, Dean of College of Food and Natural Resources, University of Massachusetts/Amherst @
Ph.D., University of California 1972
Phone: (413) 545-5708 / E-Mail: willis@resecon.umass.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Environmental economics and environmental policies that encourage voluntary cooperation by firms and individuals. Issues in research methodology.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
  • Poznan, Summers of 1993 and 1994 : three-week short courses on geographical information systems and econometric research methodology
Wiltowski, Tomasz , Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, Southern Illinois University @
Ph.D., Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
Phone: (618) 453-7000 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: tomek@siu.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Heterogeneous catalysis, solid state and materials engineering, reactor design, environmental engineering and pollution control.
Wimmer, Gayle E , Professor of Art @
MFA Tyler School Of Art, 1971
Phone: (520) 621-1181 / E-Mail: Patricia.A.Davis.30@nd.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Fibers/Mixed Media
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
  • Initiator and curator of the landmark fiber exhibitions "Contemporary Polish Fiber Art," at the Museum of Ein Harod in Israel in 1991
  • "Contemnporary Israeli Fiber Art" at the National Museum of Textiles in Poland in 1993
  • Her work is found in many collections including the National Museum of Textiles in Poland
Wiranowska, Marzenna , Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy, University of South Florida @
Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences, 1980
Phone: (813) 974-3289 / Fax: (813) 974-2058 / E-Mail: mwiranow@hsc.usf.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Neuroimmune relationships in health and disease. The specific area of research is biology of malignant glioma, their progression and various antiglioma immunotherapeutical approaches.
Witakowski, Thomas E. , Associate Professor of Performing Arts, Buffalo State College
D.M., Indiana University
Phone: 716 878-6415 / Fax: 716 / E-mail: WITAKOTE@buffalostate.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Performance of Polish choral music.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
  • Director, Buffalo State College Chorale;
  • Musical Director, The Chopin Singing Society.
Wnuk, Michael P. , Professor Emeritus in Engineering Mechanics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee @@
Ph.D., Technical University of Krakow, Poland,1962
Phone: (414) 229-5422 / Fax: .... / E-Mail: mpw@uwm.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Applied and Theoretical Mechanics, Computational Mechanics, mechanical aspects of fracture in metals and non-metals, Physics and Materials Science.
Wodiczko, Krzysztof. , Professor of Visual Arts, Department of Architecture, and Director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology @
M.F.A., Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, 1968
Phone: (617) 253-5862 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: wodiczko@mit.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: The history and theory of the avant-garde; the theory and criticism of public art; nomadic design; art, identity and community; design, technology and ethics; the art of counter-memory; and interrogative design.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
LECTURES
Wojciechowski, Krzysztof P. , Mathematical Sciences @
Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences, 1982
Phone: ((317)274-6934 / Fax: ... / E-Mail: kwojciechowski@math.iupui.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Global Analysis
Wolff, Lawrence , Professor of History, Boston College @
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1984
Telephone: (617) 552-3799 / E-Mail: lawrence.wolff@bc.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: The Enlightenment; Poland; the Habsburg monarchy; Mozart's Vienna, Freud's Vienna; early modern Italy, especially Rome and Venice; the Vatican, Church history, Baroque culture, issues of family and the culture of child
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
AWARDS
  • Recipient of the 2002 Guggenheim fellowship for a research project on the history of Galicia (Hapsburg Poland)
BOOKS
  • The Vatican and Poland in the Age of the Partitions: Diplomatic and Cultural Encounters at the Warsaw Nunciature, East European Monographs, Columbia University Press, 1988
ARTICLES
  • "Dynastic Conservatism and Poetic Violence in Fin-de-siccle Cracow: The Hapsburg Matrix of Polish Modernism," The American Historical Review, vol. 106, no. 3, June, 2001, pp. 735-764
  • "Poland and Switzerland: Philosophical Perspective and Geographical Displacement in the Age of Enlightenment," Der letzte Ritter und erste Burger Europas: Kosciuszko, das aufstandische Reformpolen und die Verbundenheit zwischen Polen und der Schweiz, eds. H. O. Haumann and J. Skowronek, Studia Polono-Helvetica III, (Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1996) pp. 239-256
  • '"A Heating of the Blood': From Early Modern Patriotism to Modern Polish Nationalism," Ethnic Studies, vol. 10, 1993, pp. 85-99
  • "Vatican Diplomacy and the Uniates of the Ukraine after the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth," Harvard Ukranian Studies, vol. 8, no. 3/4, December 1984, pp. 396-425
  • "Czas and the Polish Perspective on the Austro-Hungrian Compromise of 1867," The Polish Review, vol. 27, no. 1/2, 1982, pp. 65-75
ESSAYS
  • "Jan Potocki: From Poland to Saragossa," New York Times Book Review, Jan. 14, 1996
COURSES
Woloszczan, Alexander , Evan Pugh Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University @
Ph.D., Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, 1975
Phone: ( 814) 863-1756 / Fax: (814) 863-3399 / E-Mail: alex@astro.psu.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Searches for planetary systems, experimental gravitation, late stellar evolution.
Wolynska, Ewa , Associate Librarian and Head of Special Collections, Central Connecticut State University @
M.L.S., Simmons College
Phone: 832-2086 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: wolynska@ccsu.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Polish and Polish-American literature and publications
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS
  • Polish American Anniversary Booklets & Miscellaneous Publications at Connecticut Polish American Archive & Manuscript Collection, New Britain, Conn.,1994
Woodruff, David M. , Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology @
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, in 1996
Phone: (617) 253-6643 / Fax: (617) 258-6164 / E-Mail: woodruff@mit.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Contextually sensitive approach to law and economics after Communism. Also, the intellectual history of the social sciences and issues of philosophy and methodology in the social sciences.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
  • Political Economy of the Post-Socialist Transition
Wortham, Thomas , Professor, English, University of California, Los Angeles @
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1970
Phone: (310) 825-4459 / Fax:... / E-Mail: WORTHAM@humnet.ucla.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: 19th Century American Literature
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Fulbright Lecturer, Univ. of Warsaw, Poland, 1976-1977
Wosinska, Wilhelmina , Senior Lecturer of Social Psychology, Arizona State University - West @
Ph.D., Jagiellonian University, Poland
Phone: (602) 543-3011 / Fax: . . . . . . . . / Email: wilhelmina@asu.edu
MAJOR INTEREST: Culture Shock and Cultural Behaviors from a Social Psychological Perspective
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS
  • Cultural differences in social behavior between US and Poland, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin @
Wright, Stephen K. , Ordinary Professor of English, Catholic University of America @
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1984
Phone: (202) 319-5488 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: wrights@cua.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Medieval English and European literature; Chaucer and his contemporaries; interdisciplinary approaches to medieval drama, art and music; translating medieval texts.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Fulbright Lecturer, Adam Mickiewicz Univ., Poznan, 2001-2002
Wroblewski, Jarda T. , Associate Professor Pharmacology, Georgetown University @
Ph.D., Polish Academy of Sciences, 1979
Phone: (202) 687-1566 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: wroblewj@georgetown.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Glutamate receptors and their role in controlling the intracellular concentrations of calcium and sodium ions; also G protein-coupled metabotropic glutamate receptors
Zaborowska Magdalena , Assistant Professor, Department of American Culture & Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, and Coordinator for the Poland Site, "Global Feminisms Project" (Institute for Research on Women and Gender), University of Michigan @ @
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1992
M.A., Warsaw University, 1987
Phone: (734) 763-1460 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: mzaborow@umich.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: 20th century immigrant literatures; East European immigrant women writers; race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and (trans)national/-Atlantic identity in the novel; American identity and the city; architecture, erotics, urban and social space.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS
  • "Three Passages through (In)Visible Warsaw," in Harvard Design Magazine v13, ): 52-59, Winter/Spring 2001
  • "The Height of (Architectural) Seduction: Reading the 'Changes' through Stalin's Palace of Culture in Warsaw, Poland," in Journal of Architectural Education special issue, "Political Change and Physical Change" Chusid, J.M. ed., Cambridge: MIT Press, v54.4, ): 205-217,.May 2001
Zaluski, Irene V. , Lecturer, Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Chicago @
M.A., Columbia University, 1967
Phone: (312) 996-3215 / Fax: (312) 996-0953 / E-Mail: Irenez@uic.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Polish language, 19th and 20th-century Polish literature
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Zarembka, Paul , Professor of Economics, University at Buffalo @
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1967
Phone: 716 645-2121 x 438 / Fax: 716 645-2127 / E-Mail: zarembka@buffalo.edu"
MAJOR INTERESTS: Marxism, History of Labor Movements, Economics Development.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS
  • "Poland: the deepening crisis in the summer of 1992," Monthly Review 44, 8 21-29, 1993
FELLOWSHIPS
  • Fulbright-Hayes Lecturer, Academy of Economic Studies, Poznan, Poland, October-November, 1979.
Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska , Park Professor of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo @
M.A., Warsaw University, 1984
Ph.D., University at Buffalo, 1989
Phone: 645-2066 x. 1069 / Fax: (716) 645-5979 / E-Mail: epziarek@buffalo.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Feminist theory, modernism, continental philosophy, ethics, and critical theory
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
EDITED BOOKS
  • Gombrowicz's Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality, SUNY, 1998
ARTICLES
  • "Nationality as Form in Gombrowicz's Trans-Atlantyk" Periphery: Journal of Polish Affairs, 3 (1997) 100-106.
Ziarek, Krzysztof , Professor of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo @
M.A., Warsaw University, 1985
Ph.D., University at Buffalo, 1989
Phone: 645-2066 x. 1069 / Fax: (716) 645-5979 / E-Mail: kziarek@buffalo.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Contemporary poetry and poetics, aesthetics, philosophy and literature, and literary theory
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS OF POETRY
  • Zaimejlowane z Polski (Emailed from Poland), SUNY, 2000
ARTICLES
  • "Nationality as Form in Gombrowicz's Trans-Atlantyk" Periphery: Journal of Polish Affairs, 3 (1997) 100-106.
Ziemian, Krystyna , Mathematical Sciences @
Ph.D., Warsaw University, 1985
Phone: (317)274-8101 / Fax: ... / E-Mail: kziemian@math.iupui.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Dynamical Systems
Zochowski Michal , Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Univesity of Michigan @
Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 1995
Phone: (734) 647-5552 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: michalz@umich.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Formation of spatio-temporal patterns, nonlinear systems, and neural integration
Zubrzycki Genevieve , Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan @
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2002
Phone: (734) 764-7501 / Fax: (734) 763-6887 / E-Mail: genez@umich.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Theories of nationalism, religion, culture and politics, collective memory and the politics of commemoration, social change and historical and comparative sociology.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS
  • "The Broken Monolith: The Catholic Church and the 'War of the Crosses at Auschwitz' (1998-99)," in Religion und Nation: Beiträge zu einer unbewältigten Geschichte/Nation and Religion: An Unfinished History, ed. Geyer M. and Lehmann H. Wallstein-Verlag: Göttingen, 2003.
  • "The Classical Opposition Between Civic and Ethnic Models of Nationhood: Ideology, Empirical Reality and Social Scientific Analysis," Polish Sociological Review, 3: , 275-295, .2002.
  • "'We, the Polish Nation': Ethnic and Civic Visions of Nationhood in Post-communist Constitutional Debates," Theory and Society, 30: 5: , 629-668, 2001.
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Zukowska, Zofia. , Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University @
M.D., Medical Academy, Warsaw 1972
Ph.D., Medical Academy, Warsaw, 1980
Phone: (202) 697-1034; (202) 697-3015 / Fax: (202) 687-7407 / E-Mail: zzukow01@gusun.georgetown.edu
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