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Washington, D.C. 20057
(202) 687-4328

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Polish Studies at Georgetown University

The Institution

Founded in 1789, Georgetown University is the nation's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. Located in the NorthWestern section of Washington it is a highly slective institution with a student body of some 12,600 students of whom 6,400 are undergraduates.

Polish Studies Courses

Language Courses

PLSH 001, 002 Beginning Polish @
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Fundamentals of grammar and acquisition of basic vocabulary. Comprehension and practice of everyday spoken and written Polish.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Grenier, S.
PLSH 101, 102 Intermediate Polish @
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Continued work on the finer points of grammar and vocabulary, with the development of a more active mastery of spoken and written Polish
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Grenier, S.

Poland-Related Courses

HIST-635 Republicanism and Absolutism in European History @
COURSE DESCRIPTION: A comparison of the origins and development of two opposing systems of 16th-18th century political philosophy and social and political structures. Examination of Novgorod, the communes of Renaissance Italy, Poland-Lithuania, Muscovy, Holland.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Kaminski, A.

Faculty

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:
Grenier, Svetlana , Associate Professor, Slavic Languages, Georgetown University @
Ph.D., Columbia University
Phone: (202) 687-6108 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: greniers@georgetown.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS: Government, politics, voting behavior, campaigns, elections
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
COURSES
Kaminski, Andrzej S. , Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University @
Ph.D., Jagiellonian University, 1966
Phone: (202) 885-2992 / Fax: (202) 885-2938 / E-Mail: kaminska@georgetown.edu.
MAJOR INTERESTS: History and culture of Eastern Europe and Russia, particularly the sixteenth to eighteenth century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:
BOOKS
  • Republic versus Autocracy: Poland-Lithuania and Russia in the late Seventeenth Century, (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University, Ukrainian Research Institute, 1993).
  • Historia Rzeczypospolitej Wielu Narodów, 1505-1795. (Lublin: Instytut Europy Stodkowo Wschodniej, 2000). Cambridge University Press is currently considering an English translation of this book.
  • Konfederacja sandomierska wobec Rosji w okresie poaltransztadzkim 1706 -1709 (The Confederacy of Sandomierz vis-?vis Russia after Altranstadt 1706 -1709). (Wroclaw, Warszawa, Krakow: Zajlad Narodowyim Ossolinskich, wyd, Polskiej Akademi Nauk, 1969)
CHAPTERS and ARTICLES
  • "Espace civique dans l'histoire de la Respublica de Plusieurs Nations," in The Borders and National Space in East-Central Europe, ed. J. Kloczowksi. (Lublin, 2000), 79-88.
  • "Imponderabilia spoleczenstwa obywatelskiego Rzeczpospofitej Wielu Narodow," (Imponderabilia of Civic Society in the Commonwealth of Many Nations), in Rzeczpospolita Wielu Narodow i Jej Tradycje (Krakow, 1999), 33-58.
  • "Poland - Lithuania as the Host Country for the Jews," (revised version of article published in 1986 in Poles and Jews; this version was translated into Hebrew) in The Broken Chain: The Polish Jewry through the Ages, ed. I. Bartal and I. Gutman, (Jerusalem, 1997), 115-25.
  • "History of Poland- Lithuania 1453-1795. Distortion of Common Legacy: Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine," in The Foundations of Historical and Cultural Traditions in East-Central Europe (Lublin, 1994).
COURSES

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

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
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
MAJOR INTERESTS: The cardiovascular actions of a novel peptide, neuropeptide Y (NPY)



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