Polish Studies at University of Colorado at Boulder

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Polish Studies Courses

HIST 4643 History of Poland Since the 16th century, Democracy and Nation @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Traces themes of democracy and nationalism in polish history from the "noble republic" of the early modern era, through the struggles with fascism and communism in the 20th century, to Poland's current position on the eastern edge of Western Europe
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Kenney, P.

Language Instruction

Poland-Related Courses

Political Science 4062 Emerging Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Studies developments in the Soviet satellites and Yugoslavia, their governmental organizations, and their relation to the Soviet Union and the West.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Kenney, P.

History 4613 History of Eastern Europe to 1914 @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Examines the conquering of the kingdoms of Eastern Europe by the Russian, Prussian, Habsburg, and Ottoman Empires, and the formation of national consciousness among the subject peoples of the region before World War I.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Kenney, P.

History 4623 History of Eastern Europe Since 1914 @

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Examines the struggle of nations of eastern Europe to assert their independence, from break-up of the imperial system at the end of World War I, through the Soviet bloc which emerged after World War II, to the establishment of democratic governments after the 1989 revolutions.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Kenney, P.

Faculty

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

Kenney Padraic J. , Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder @

Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1992
Phone: 303-492-5729 / Fax: 303-492-1868 /Email: padraic.kenney@colorado.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Eastern Europe, European Labor History
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
PUBLICATIONS

• "The Organic Revolution: Grass-roots Activism in Eastern Europe, 1985-1989: Five Papers." Washington, D.C. : National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1998
  
• Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists 1945 - 1950 New York: Cornell University Press, 1997
• A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989, Princeton University Press, 2002
• "Framing, Political Opportunities, and Civic Mobilization in the East European Revolutions: A Case Study of Poland's Freedom and Peace Movement", Mobilization: An International Journal, vol. 6:2, 2001, pp. 171-88
• "Whose Nation, Whose State? Working-class Nationalism and Antisemitism in Poland, 1945-1947," POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry 13, 2000, pp. 224-35
• "The Gender of Resistance in Communist Poland," The American Historical Review 104:2, April, 1999, pp. 399-425
• "Working-Class Community and Resistance in pre-Stalinist Poland: The Poznaski Textile Strike, September 1947," Social History, 18:1, January, 1993, pp. 31-52

PRESENTATIONS

• "Communism's Negotiated Collapse: The Polish Round Table, Ten Years Later," Ann Arbor, April 1999

COURSES

• History of Poland Since the 16th century, Democracy and Nation

Mishtal, Joanna, Z. , Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder

M.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, 2000
Phone: . . . / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: Joanna.Mishtal@colorado.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Cultural Anthropology
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
RECOGNITION

• Fulbright Fellowship-Poland 2001-2: Democratization of Poland: can Polish women be successful mothers and workers in the changing political economy of the post-socialist era?

PRESENTATIONS

• Democracy for Whom? Reproductive restrictions and feminist responses in Poland; Paper at European Congress of Social Anthropologists, Copenhagen, August, 2002

META-FACULTY - Faculty who have studied and/or taught at Polish institutions of higher education

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

Frajzynger, Zygumunt , Professor, Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder @

Ph.D. University of Warsaw, 1968
Phone: 303-492-6959 / Fax: 303-492-4416 / E-Mail: Zygmunt.Frajzyngier@Colorado.EDU
MAJOR INTERESTS: System-interactional explanation for language structure

ADJOINT FACULTY - Faculty whose home base is another institution

Rozenburg, Grzegorz , Adjoint Professor, Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder

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