Publications

Books (click on each title for a sample):

• Całkiem zwyczajny kraj: Historia Polski bez martyrologii, translated by Anna Dzierzgowska and Jan Dzierzgowski (Wydawnictwo Filtry, 2021).
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• Poland in the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
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• Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland (Oxford University Press, 2011).

• Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe (Central European University Press, 2010).

• When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in 19th Century Poland (Oxford University Press, 2000).

• Gdy nacjonalizm zaczął  nienawidzić: Wyobrażenia nowoczesnej polityki w dziewiętnastowiecznej Polsce, translated by Agnieszka Nowakowska (Pogranicze, 2011).

Selected Articles (click on each title to download)

• “Polish Intersectionality,” The Polish Review 66:4 (2021): 53-59.
• “Contextualizing Eastern Europe: The National, the Regional, and the Global in East European Studies,” in Slawisch-Deutsche Begegnungen in der Literatur, Sprache und Kultur, edited by Aleksandra Bednarowska, Beata Kołodziejczyk-Mróz, and Piotr Majcher (Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2020): 13-38.
• “Scale and Agency in the Writing of European History,” East Central Europe 47:2-3 (2020), 367-371.
• “Nationalism and Antisemitism,” in Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism, edited by Sol Goldberg, Jonathan Judaken, Adam Teller, Scott Ury, and Kalman Weiser (Palgrave, 2020), 161-172.
• “Conceptualizing Consumption in the Polish People’s Republic,” in The Socialist Good Life: Desire, Development, and Living Standards in Eastern Europe, edited by Zsuzsa Gille, Diana Mincyte, and Cristofer Scarboro (Indiana University Press, 2020), 82-103.
• “Meritocracy and Community in 21^st Century Poland,” Shofar 37:1 (2019): 72-95.
• “From Homo Sovieticus to Homo Economicus: The Transformation of the Human Subject in Polish Socialist Economic Thought,” East European Politics and Society (2019): 1-25.
• “The Triumph of National Communism,” in Poland’s Memory Wars: Essays on Illiberalism, edited by Jo Harper (Central European University Press, 2018), 65-79.
• “The Theology of the Nation in Postwar Poland,” in Nationalism and Secularism, ed. By Zohar Maor and Yochi Fischer (Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2018): 223-260.
• “The Birth of the Polak-Katolik,” Sprawy Narodowościowe 49 (2017), https://doi.org/10.11649/sn.1280.
• “Exclusionary Egalitarianism and the New Cold War,” Slavic Review 76, S1 (August 2017): 81-97.
• “A lengyel szélsőjobboldal és a római katolikus egyház,” Múltunk 2 (2014): 6-48.
• “Why Do Polish Catholics Hate the Jews? Making Sense of a Bad Question,” in François Guesnet and Gwen Jones, eds., Antisemitism in an Era of Transition: Genealogies and Impact in Post-Communist Poland and Hungary (New York: Peter Lang, 2014).
• “Beyond the Study of Nationalism,” in Nationalism Today, edited by Krzysztof Jaskułowski and Tomasz Kamusella (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), 3-15.
• “Podzwonne dla badań nad nacjonalizmem,” in Naród, tożsamość, kultura. Między konieczności a wyborem, ed. by Wojciech Burszta, Krzysztof Jaskułowski, and Joanna Nowak (Warszawa: Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, 2005), 79-89.
• “Hetmanka and Mother: Representing the Virgin Mary in Modern Poland,” Contemporary European History 14:2 (May 2005): 151-70.
• “Anti-Semitism and the Search for a Catholic Modernity,” in Robert Blobaum, ed., Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), 103-123.
• “The Catholic Church in Poland,” a multimedia teaching module in Making the History of 1989, edited by T. Mills Kelley.
• “Catholicism, Ethno-Catholics, and the Catholic Church in Modern Poland,” NCEEER Working Paper (2004). 
• “Making a Space for Anti-Semitism: The Catholic Hierarchy and the Jews in the early 1900s,” Polin 16 (2003), 415-29.
• “Thy Kingdom Come: Patriotism and Prophecy in 19^th Century Poland,” Catholic Historical Review 89:2 (2003): 213-38.
• “Marking the Boundaries of the Faith: Catholic Modernism and the Radical Right in Early Twentieth-Century Poland,” in Elwira M. Grossman, ed., Studies in Language, Literature and Cultural Mythology in Poland: Investigating “the Other” (Lewiston-Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002), 261-86.
• “The Catholic Nation: Religion, Identity, and the Narratives of Polish History,” The Slavic and East European Journal 45:2 (March, 2001): 289-99.
• “Democracy and Discipline in Late Nineteenth-Century Poland,” Journal of Modern History 71:2 (June 1999): 346-93.
• “The Construction and Deconstruction of Nineteenth-Century Polish Liberalism,” in Historical Reflections on Central Europe, ed. by S. Kirschbaum (New York: St. Martins, 1999), 37-64.
• “The Social Nation and its Futures: English Liberalism and Polish Nationalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Warsaw,” American Historical Review 101:5 (December 1996): 1470-92.
• “Konstrukcja i dekonstrukcja dziewiętnastowiecznego liberalizmu polskiego,” Studia Polityczne 6 (1996): 81-102.
• “Who is a Pole and Where is Poland? Territory and Nation in the Rhetoric of Polish National Democracy before 1905,” Slavic Review 51 (Winter, 1992): 639-53.