Polish Studies at University of Connecticut/Stamford

Faculty

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.

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