C.V.

Employment:

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan (2010-present).
Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan (2000-2010).
Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan (1994-2000).

Education:

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Ph.D., 1994.
University of Warsaw, Poland: Fulbright Fellow, 1986-1988.
University of Tulsa, Oklahoma: B.A., 1986.

Books

Całkiem zwyczajny kraj. Historia Polski bez martyrologii, przełożyli Anna Dzierzgowska & Jan Dzierzgowski (Wydawnictwo Filtry, 2021).
Poland in the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland (Oxford University Press, 2011).
When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (Oxford University Press, 2000).
- Gdy nacjonalizm zaczął nienawidzić: Wyobrażenia nowoczesnej polityki w dziewiętnastowiecznej Polsce, translated by Agnieszka Nowakowska (Pogranicze, 2011).
Co-Editor (with Bruce Berglund), Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe (Central European University Press, 2010).
Co-Editor (with Michael Kennedy), Negotiating Radical Change: Understanding and Extending the Lessons of the Polish Round Table Talks (United States Institute for Peace, 2000).

Major Articles and Essays

“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, http://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/exhibits/roman-catholic-church/introduction.
“Catholicism, Ethno-Catholics, and the Catholic Church in Modern Poland,” NCEEER Working Paper (2004), http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/2004_818-12_Porter.pdf.
“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.

Reviews and Miscellaneous Publications

“What is at Stake in Poland’s Elections?” The Globe Post (October 12, 2019).
“30 Years of Post-Communism in Poland: What Should be Remembered,” The Globe Post (June 12, 2019).
“One Way Trump is Different From European Nationalists,” The Conversation (January 18, 2017).
- reprinted in Salon; Business Insider; Huffington Post; History News Network; Associated Press.
Europe has Lost its Polish Anchor,” The Conversation (February 1, 2016).
Review of Hierarchy and Pluralism: Living Religious Difference in Catholic Poland, by Agnieszka Pasieka, H-Poland (January, 2016).
“Why We Should Pay Attention to Poland’s Elections,” The Conversation (October 23, 2015).
“With History of Emigration, Poland Now Confronts Immigration Crisis,” The Conversation (September 24, 2015).
- reprinted in U.S. News and World Report.
“Why Pope Francis Makes Republicans Squirm,” Newsweek (September 19, 2015).
“Najsłabsza wśród mocnych i najpotężniejsza wśród słabych,” Czas Kultury 4 (2014): 18-27..
“Faith and Fatherland in Poland,” East West Church & Ministry Report 22:4 (Fall 2014): 10-13.
Review of Hierarchy and Pluralism: Living Religious Difference in Catholic Poland, by Agnieszka Pasieka, H-Poland (January, 2016).
Review of Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-1956, by Katherine Lebow, Canadian Slavonic Papers 55, 3-4 (September-December, 2013): 567-568.
Review of Patrons of History: Nobility, Capital and Political Transitions in Poland, by Longina Jakubowska, Slavic Review 72:2 (Summer 2013).
“Radio Maryja i Tygodnik Powszechny to dwie twarze soborowej nowoczesności,” Kultura Liberalna (September 10, 2012).
“Poland’s New Patriotism,” Eyes on Europe (June 14, 2012), http://eurocomment.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/polands-new-patriotism.
Review of The Land Between: Conflict in the East European Borderlands, 1870-1992, by Alexander V. Prusin. Slavic Review 70, 4 (Winter 2011): 907-908.
Review of Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and National Socialism, by Derek Hastings, Holocaust and Genocide Studies 25:3 (2011): 314-316.
“The Shadow of the Cross,” Transitions Online (15 October 2010), http://www.tol.org/client/article/21877-the-shadow-of-the-cross.html.
Review of Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, by Neal Pease, The Catholic Historical Review 97:1 (1 January 2011) 171-172.
Editor and Translator of Krzysztof Czyżewski, “Line of Return: Cultivating ‘The Borderland’ in Dialogue with Czesław Miłosz,” Michigan Quarterly 46, 4 (Fall 2007).
Review of The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881, by Israel Bartal, Jewish Currents (November 2007): 30-32.
Review of Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era, by Magda Teter, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75, 2 (2007): 477-479.
“Adam Czartoryski,” “Nationalism,” “The Polish National Movement,” “Warsaw,” and “The Endecja,” in The Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006).
“The Return of the Polish Radical Right” Jewish Currents 60:5 (September-October 2006): 14-17, 41.
“August Hlond,” “Wojciech Korfanty,” “Tadeusz Rydzyk,” “Józef Tischner,” “Jerzy Turowicz,” and “Stefan Wyszyński,” in The Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics, edited by Roy Domenico and Mark Hanley (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2006), 271-272, 309-310, 479, 561-562, 572-573.
Review of From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The ‘Jewish Question’ in Poland, 1850-1914, by Theodore R. Weeks, American Historical Review (December 2006): 1626-1627.
Review of Religion and the Rise of Nationalism: A Profile of an East-Central European City, by Robert E. Alvis, Slavic Review 65, 4 (Winter 2006): 805.
Review of The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999, by Timothy Snyder, Slavic Review 64 (Spring 2005): 166.
Review of The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919–1945, by Richard Steigmann-Gall, Holocaust and Genocide Studies 19 (Spring 2005): 125-27.
“Polish Uprising of 1863” and “Sarmatians,” in The Encyclopedia of Russian History, edited by James Millar (New York: Macmillan, 2004), 1198-1199, 1350.
“The Warsaw Uprisings,” Detroit News (August 4, 2004).
Review of History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century, by Ivan T. Berend, American Historical Review 109 (June 2004): 996.
Review of A Concise History of Poland by J. Lukowski and H. Zawadzki, Slavic Review 62, 1 (Spring 2003): 157-58.
“Explaining Jedwabne: The Perils of Understanding,” The Polish Review 47: 1 (2002): 23-26.
“Pojednanie – niełatwe rzemiosło,” Gazeta Wyborcza 252 (27-28 October 2001).
Review of Containing Nationalism by Michael Hechter, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32 (Autumn, 2001): 285-87.
Review of A History of Polish Christianity by Jerzy Kłoczowski, Slavic Review 60 (2001): 837-38.
“Solidarność i jej przemilczenia,” Nowy Dziennik (13 October 2000).
Review of Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe by Timothy Snyder, Austrian History Yearbook 31 (2000): 195-96.
“Making History,” The Journal of the International Institute (Summer, 1999): 1.
“Ucieczka z więzienia historii,” Gazeta Wyborcza 29 (4 February 1999): 19.
Review of The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism, by Adrian Hastings, International Affairs 75 (July 1999): 667.
“Vocabularies of Identity in Eastern Europe,” Ethnos-Nation 6 (1998): 159-60.
Review of The Gypsies by David Crowe, Slavonica 3/1 (1996/97): 55-56.
“The Politics of Discursive Analysis,” Dialogues on Discourse 3 (Fall, 1994): 4-5.
Review of Reluctant Socialists, Rural Entrepreneurs: Class, Culture, and the Polish State, by Carole Nagengast, Slavic Review (Winter 1994): 866-67.
“The Language of Nationalism,” Dialogues on Discourse 1 (Fall, 1993): 1-2.
Review of Continuity and Change in Poland: Conservatism in Polish Political Thought, by Rett Ludwikowski, Slavic Review 52 (Summer, 1993): 380-81.
Review of Kościuszko po insurekcji, by Jan Lubicz-Pachoński, American Studies 9 (1991): 157-61.
“An Evaluation of Tadeusz Kościuszko’s Contribution to the American Revolution,” American Studies 10 (1991): 93-101.

Awards, Honors, Grants and Fellowships

Michigan Humanities Award (2021).
Best Syllabus Award, Austrian Studies Association (2019)
ACLS Fellowship (2016-2017).
Fulbright Fellowship (2016-2017, declined).
Kulczycki Prize for best book in Polish studies, for Faith and Fatherland (2012).
Michigan Humanities Award (2012-2013).
Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship, University of Michigan (2012).
John Dewey Award for Outstanding Teaching, College of LS&A, University of Michigan (2011).
Fellow of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan (2009-2010).
Induction as an Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tulsa University (May 2008).
Project Completion Leave, History Department, University of Michigan (Winter 2007).
Excellence in Education Award, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan (2006).
$36,000 Research Grant, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (2003).
$25,000 Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Council for Learned Societies (2003).
Faculty Recognition Grant, University of Michigan (2003).
Oskar Halecki Award of the Polish Institute for Arts and Sciences in America, for best new book on Polish history, for When Nationalism Began to Hate (2001).
Faculty Career Development Award, University of Michigan (2001).
Amicus Polonae award, presented by Ambassador Przemysław Grudziński of Poland (2000).
Polish Studies Association Award for best new book, for When Nationalism Began to Hate (2000).
Metchie J. E. Budka Award for outstanding scholarship on Poland, Kościuszko Foundation (1999).
$50,300 from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research for a project entitled “Negotiating Revolution In Poland: Conversion and Opportunity in 1989,” in collaboration with Professor Michael Kennedy, Department of Sociology (1999-2000).
$30,000 from the United States Institute of Peace for a project entitled “Negotiating Radical Change: Understanding and Extending the Lessons of the Polish Round Table Talks,” in collaboration with Professor Michael Kennedy, Department of Sociology (1999-2000).
$340,000 from a variety of private and University sources for a conference entitled “Communism’s Negotiated Collapse: The Polish Round Table, Ten Years Later,” in collaboration with Professor Michael Kennedy, Department of Sociology (1999).
Funding from UROP, CAUP, and OVPR to support an exhibit entitled “Making a Space for History,” in collaboration with Professor Craig Borum, College of Architecture and Urban Planning (1999).
William T. Ludolph, Jr. Junior Faculty Development Award (1999).
University of Michigan International Institute Travel Grant (1999).
Funding from CREES, CES, II, OVPR, Rackham, and the History Department for a conference entitled “Vocabularies of Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe” (1998).
ACLS/SSRC Joint Committee on Eastern Europe Postdoctoral Fellowship in East European Studies (1996-1997).

Professional Presentations

“Why Did Socialism Fail?” University of Washington (October 22, 2020).
“The Aftermath of the 2020 Elections” University of Michigan Copernicus Program for Polish Studies (October 15, 2020).
“Poland Compared,” National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (November 25, 2019).
“Catholics, Communists, and Dissidents: Who was Responsible for Poland’s Austerity Doctrine?” National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (November 24, 2019)
“The Birth of Homo Economicus and the Origins of Austerity in Communist Poland,” University of Michigan conference on Austerity and Anti-Austerity Beyond Capitalism (September 13, 2019).
“The Devil Really is in the Details: Why Specificity Matters in Understanding the Global Radical Right,” University of California – Berkeley (February 1, 2019).
“The Warsaw Uprising and the Politics of Martyrdom,” Duke University (November 1, 2018).
“Polish and Jewish Identity Before WWI,” Fordham University, Columbia University, and the YIVO Institute (October 4, 2018).
“Nationalism and Populism in Poland,” University of Wisconsin – Madison (March 10, 2018).
“The Return of National Communism” University of Indiana (March 8, 2018).
“Polish History and the Politics of Martyrdom,” Oakland University, Michigan (February 6, 2018).
Socialist Austerity,” National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (November 10, 2017)
“Poland at the Crossroads,” Harvard University (October 24, 2017).
“Problematizing Populism: The Polish Radical Right and the Return of National Communism,” UM CREEES (September 20, 2017).
“From Homo Sovieticus to Homo Economicus,” Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt-Oder (July 13, 2017).
“The Politics of Populism in Poland,” paper presented at a conference entitled “Back to the 1930s? Economic Crises, Populism, and World Disorder,” Diplomatische Akademie Wien (June 8, 2017).
“The Communist Origins of Austerity Economics,” Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt-Oder (July 13, 2017).“The Return of National Communism” University of Indiana (March 8, 2018).
“The Communist Origins of Austerity Economics,” University of Vienna (June 7, 2017).
“Polityka grzechu w polskim Kościele,” Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk (May 26, 2017).
“Everyday Authoritarianism in Poland,” UM Teach-Out on Authoritarianism (March 31, 2017).
“Contextualizing Poland: The National, the Regional, and the Global in Polish Studies,” University of Łódź (December 15, 2016).
“PiS and the Return of National Communism,” Cambridge University (December 8, 2016).
“Contextualizing Poland: The National, the Regional, and the Global in Polish Studies,” Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt-Oder (November 24, 2016).
“Nationalism and Antisemitism,” at a conference on “Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism,” The University of Toronto (October 28, 2016).
“Globalizing Polish History,” keynote address at the conference “Slawisch-Deutsche Begegnungen in der Literatur, Sprache und Kultur,” Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny, Kraków, Poland (October 23, 2016).
“Supply-Side Socialism: Communist Poland and the Foundations of Neoliberalism,” workshop on “Iron Curtain Crossings: Eastern Europe and the Global Cold War,” Ohio State University (March 4-5, 2016).
Roundtable on “Europe’s Right Turn? The Political Shift in Hungary, Poland, and France,” UM International Institute (February 1, 2016).
Roundtable on Hierarchy and Pluralism: Living Religious Difference in Catholic Poland, by Agnieszka Pasieka, National Convention for the Association on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (November 19, 2015).
“Poland Goes Global,” National Convention for the Association on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (November 21, 2015).
“Chances and Pitfalls of Transatlantic and Interdisciplinary Polish Studies,” National Convention for the Association on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (November 21, 2015).
“Supply-Side Socialism,” Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan (September 30, 2015).
“The Birth of the Polak-Katolik,” Instytut Kultury Polskiej, University of Warsaw, Poland (June 13, 2015).
“Conceptualizing Consumption in the Polish People’s Republic,” University of California – Berkeley (April 24, 2015).
“Martyrology and Nationalism in Modern Poland,” University of Michigan (March 26, 2015).
“The Limits of ‘Identity’ as a Conceptual Framework in Polish-Jewish History,” keynote address for the conference “Pragmatic Alliances – Persistent Fidelity. Conceptions of Loyalty in the Polish-Jewish Context in the 20th Century,” Leipzig University (November 6, 2014).
“Antisemitism and Catholicism in Post-WWII Poland,” Clark University (April 2, 2014).
“The Memory Wars: Competing Claims of Martyrdom During WWII in Eastern Europe,” Ann Arbor District Library (January 9, 2014).
“Piłsudski and the Polish Revolution,” UM Copernicus Program and Polish Students’ Club (November 5, 2013).
“Fighting for God and Fatherland (or not): Catholicism and Modern Politics in Partitioned Poland,” New York University (October 19, 2013).
“A Tale of Two Popes: The Church of John Paul II and the Church of Francis,” UM Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center (October 4, 2013).
“Catholicism and Antisemitism in Modern Poland,” keynote address for the conference “Antisemitism in East-Central Europe, 1880-1939,” German Historical Institute, Warsaw (May 16, 2013).
“Globalizing Poland’s Communist Modernity,” Midwest East European Historians’ Workshop, University of Illinois-Chicago (April 10, 2013).
“A Perfectly Normal Place: Globalizing Modernity in Eastern Europe,” keynote address for the convention of the Midwest Slavic Studies Association, Ohio State University (April 5, 2013).
“Religion in the History of East-Central European Political Thought,” Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria (March 14, 2013).
“Clickers in the Humanities Classroom,” Eastern Michigan University (February 20, 2013).
“Faith and Fear in Early 20^th Century Polish Catholicism,” Backus Memorial Lecture, University of Kansas (November 12, 2012).
“The Politics of Sin in 19th and 20th Polish Catholicism,” University of Virginia (October 26, 2012).
“Nationalism and Universalism in 19th Century Polish Catholicism,” German Historical Institute, Warsaw (October 11, 2012).
“A Perfectly Normal Place: Globalizing Polish History,” German Historical Institute, Warsaw (June 13, 2012).
“Austerity and Stimulus in Historical Perspective,” Michigan School of Public Policy (March 15, 2012).
“Beyond the Polak-Katolik,” National Convention for the Association on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (November 19, 2011).
“Beyond Martyrdom: Polish-Jewish Relations During WWII,” UM Frankel Center (October 25, 2011).
“The Polish Radical Right and the Roman Catholic Church,” Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (October 5, 2011).
“Polish Catholicism and Antisemitism,” Conference on Antisemitism in Hungary and Poland at University College, London (May 26, 2010).
“The Ecclesia Militans and the Catholic Nation in Modern Poland,” Columbia University (April 16, 2010).
“The Ecclesia Militans and the Catholic Nation in Modern Poland,” University of Wisconsin – Madison (March 4, 2010).
“Anticommunist Dissent and the Catholic Church,” University of Wisconsin – Madison (March 4, 2010).
“Catholicism and the Ideology of Homogeneity in Polish History,” UM – Flint (January 15, 2009).
“The Ecclesia Militans and the Polak-Katolik,” National Convention for the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston (November 14, 2009).
“The Antisemite and the Antichrist: Love, Fear, and Catholicism in Modern Poland,” University of Illinois-Chicago (October 20, 2009).
“The New Lines of Tolerance in Europe,” a round-table symposium sponsored by the UM’s CREES, CES, and EUC (December 6, 2008).
“New Digital Projects for East European History,” National Convention for the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans (November 17, 2007).
“The Commemorated Talk Back: Excess Meaning and Historical Politics in Eastern Europe”, UM Institute for Historical Studies / CREES Symposium on “Anniversaries, Commemorations, and Historical Memory” (November 1, 2006).
“Apocalyptic Antisemitism: Faith, Fear, and Polish Catholicism in the early 20th century,” Columbia University (October 30, 2006).
“Apocalyptic Antisemitism: Faith, Fear, and Polish Catholicism in the early 20th century,” UM Religious Studies Workshop (December 6, 2006).
“Giving Unto Caesar: Catholic Political Theology in Modern Poland,” Conference on Religion and the Challenges of Modernity, Warsaw, Poland (June 24, 2006).
“Love, Hate, and Polish Catholicism at the Start of the 20th Century,” Yale University (April 19, 2006).
“One Day after the Polish Presidential Election: An Analysis of the New Political Landscape,” UM Center for Russian and East European Studies (October 10, 2005).
“Polish Catholicism after the Fall of Communism,” Christianity in Eastern Europe Conference, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan (June 9, 2005).
“For God and Fatherland: Studying Catholicism in Modern Poland,” Christianity in Eastern Europe Conference, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan (June 7, 2005).
“The Legacy of John Paul II,” UM Center for Russian and East European Studies (April 6, 2005).
“Poland after the US Elections,” UM Center for European Studies (December 15, 2004).
“Is the Pope Catholic? Drawing the Boundaries of Roman Catholicism in Modern Polish History,” Louisiana State University (November 12, 2004).
“Love, Hate, and Polish Catholicism in the early 20th Century,” Hebrew University, Jerusalem (May 17, 2004).
“Who is a Catholic and What is Catholicism: Defining the Church in Modern Poland,” CREES Brownbag Lecture, UM (April 7, 2004).
“Hetmanka and Mother: Representing the Virgin Mary in Modern Poland,” National Convention for the American Historical Association, Washington, DC (January 9, 2004).
“Love and Hate in Interwar Polish Catholicism,” National Convention for the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto (November 21, 2003).
“The People of God: Poland, Catholicism, and History,” The University of Wisconsin (March 31, 2003).
“The Many Meanings of the Modern Mary: The Virgin in Polish Catholicism.” UM CREES Faculty Colloquium (March 11, 2003).
“Beyond Jedwabne: Setting a New Research Agenda,” National Convention for the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (November 23, 2002).
“For God and Fatherland: Poland, Catholicism, and Modernity,” Stanford University (November 7, 2002).
“Is the Pope Catholic? Defining Roman Catholicism,” University of West Virginia (September 25, 2002).
“Antisemitism and the Search for a Catholic Modernity,” University of West Virginia (June 22, 2002).
“The Silences of Polish History,” CREES, UM (April 20, 2002).
“What’s Wrong with the History Channel,” Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture, UM (February 20, 2002).
“Does ‘Religion’ Exist?” PROFS Lecture, UM (February 19, 2002).
“The Resurgence of Religious History,” Phi Alpha Theta lecture, UM (December 5, 2001).
“Polish Jews and Jewish Poles: Overcoming the Dichotomies of Identity,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C. (November 17, 2001).
“Reconciling Oneself to Reconciliation: Confronting Polish-Jewish Relations,” Gaston Z. Ortigas Peace Institute, Manila, Philippines (August 17, 2001).
“Making a Space for Anti-Semitism: The Polish Catholic Hierarchy and the Jews in the Early 20^th Century,” Georgetown University (April 25, 2001).
“Anti-Semitism, Anti-Polonism, and the Perpetuation of Hatred,” Hillel Lecture Series, UM (March 18, 2001).
“The Search for a Catholic Modernity: Anti-Semitism and the Boundaries of Catholic Discourse in Poland,” Indiana University Polish Studies Center (November 2000).
“Anti-Semitism, Catholicism, and Modernity in Poland,” The VI Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, Tampere, Finland (August 2000).
“Setting the Boundaries of the Radical Right in Contemporary Poland,” UM Center for European Studies (April 2000).
“New Approaches to the Study of Nationalism,” UM History Department Colloquium (March 2000).
“Marking the Boundaries of the Faith: Catholicism and the Radical Right in Early Twentieth-Century Poland,” Miller Center Lecture, The University of Virginia (March 2000).
“New Approaches in Critical Oral History,” Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Political Science (October 1999).
“Hatred and History,” Phi Alpha Theta Lecture, The University of Tulsa (May 1999).
“For God and Fatherland: Catholic Narratives of Polish History,” UM Institute for the Humanities, (February 1998).
“Translating and Retranslating the Struggle for Survival: Spencer in Poland,” National Convention of the American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington (January 1998).
“Poland’s Multiple Modernities,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Seattle, Washington (November 1997).
“The Silences of Polish History,” Workshop on Women and Gender in Poland, UM (May 1997).
“Hatred and History,” UM Department of History Commencement Address (May 1997).
“The Political Landscape in Poland,” Cleveland Society of Poles (May 1997).
“The Politics of Mickiewicz in the World of Gumplowicz,” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, Massachusetts (November 1996).
“Nationalism and Mass Politics: Rethinking the Role of the Endecja in Polish History,” The Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Washington, D.C. (June 1996).
“Modernization, Democracy, and the Narratives of Polish History,” Symposium on Cultural Studies in Eastern Europe, UM (April 1996).
“‘Modernism’ and ‘Public Action’ in fin-de-siècle Poland,” Cultural Studies Group of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, UM (April 1996).
“When Poland Learned to Hate: From the National Ideal to the National Struggle, 1863-1905,” UM History Department Faculty Colloquium (December 1995).
“Reconfiguring the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Poland,” National Convention for the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C. (October 1995).
“The Construction and Deconstruction of Nineteenth-Century Polish Liberalism,” The V Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, Poland (August 1995).
“The Construction of the Social Nation in Nineteenth-Century Poland,” UM Center for Russian and East European Studies (April 1995).
“1989 and the Collapse of Polish History,” The UM History Honors Club (October 1995).
“The Romantic in a Positivist Hat: Idealism, Scientism, and the Polish Concept of ‘The Nation’.” UM Department of History (January 1994).
“Jednostka i zbiorowość w Endeckiej koncepcji narodu przed 1905 r.” Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of History (April 1994).
“Hermeneutics and the Historian: Recent Methodological Approaches in the Study of Nationalism.” University of Warsaw Department of History (January 1994).
“The Nation as Discourse: A Methodological Commentary on the Study of Polish National Democracy.” National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Phoenix, Arizona (November 1992).

Service

Director of Graduate Studies, UM History Department (2018-2019).
Committee on Academic Freedom and Advocacy, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2017-present).
Editorial Board, Slavic Review (2014-present).
Advisory Board, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Polenstudien, Europa-Universität Viadrina (2017-present).
President, Polish Studies Association (2010-2016).
Founder and Editor, H-Poland (2010-2016).
European Caucus Leader, History Department, UM (2015-2016).
Rackham Dissertation Prize Selection Committee (2014-2015).
History Department Committee for Outreach, Publicity, and Development (2015-2016).
Selection Committee, Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize (2015).
History Department Honors Chair (2013-2015).
Chair, Promotion Committee for Douglas Northrop (2013).
Director of Undergraduate Studies, History Department (2010-2012).
History Department Executive Committee (2008-2010).
Director, Copernicus Endowment for Polish Studies (2000-2010).
Search Committee, Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights (2009).
Graduate Student Essay Prize Selection Committee, AAASS (2009-2010).
CES-EUC Fellowships Committee (2009-2010).
Search Committee, North American Religious History (2008-2009).
Chair, Undergraduate Advising Committee (2007).
Executive Committee, Center for Russian and East European Studies (1999-2002, 2005-2007).
Promotion Review Committee for Dario Gaggio (Fall 2006).
International Institute Fellowships Committee (2006).
Center for Russian and East European Studies Fellowships Committee (2006).
Department of History Postdoctoral Fellowships Committee (2006).
Review Committee for the Orbis Prize for the Best New Book in Polish Studies (2005-2006).
Director of Graduate Studies, History Department (2001-2002, 2004-2005).
Chair, Fellowships Committee, History Department (2000-2001).
Center for European Studies Advisory Committee (1997-2002).
Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor, Center for Russian and East European Studies (1997-1998, 2000-02).
Rackham Dissertation Grant Committee (1998).
Search Committee, Medieval Jewish History (1997-1998).
Steering Committee, Cultural Studies Group, Center for Russian and East European Studies (1996-1997).

Teaching

Completed Dissertation Committees:
- Cristian Capotescu (UM History Department), “Giving in the Time of Socialism: Economic Life, Humanitarianism, and Mobility in the Global Postwar” (2020).
- Johanna Folland (UM History Department), “Globalizing Socialist Health: Africa, East Germany, and the AIDS Crisis” (2019).
- Kathleen Wroblewski (UM History Department), “Migration to the Self: Education, Political Economy, and Religious Authority in Polish Communities” (2018).
- Trevor Kilgore (UM History Department), “Occupying God’s House: Catholics, Sacred Space, and the Religiosity of Postwar Italian Politics, 1954-1969” (2017).
- Deborah Jones (UM Anthropology Department), “Afterlives & Other Lives: Semiosis & History in 21st Century Ukraine” (2017).
- Wiktor Marzec, “Rising Subjects: Forging the Political During the 1905 Revolution in Russian Poland,” (Central European University, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 2017).
- Jessica Zychowicz, “Superfluous Women: Gender, Art and Activism After Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (Slavic Department, 2015).
- Alexandra Tipei, “For Your Civilization and Ours: Greece, Romania, and the Making of French Universalism (Indiana University, History, 2015).
- Alicja Kusiak-Brownstein, “Peasant Heroes And Symbolic Ennoblement: The Limits of the Modern Historical Imagination in Poland, 1840-1914” (2014).
- Jessica Robbins (Anthropology), “Personhood in Places: Aging, Memory, and Relatedness in Postsocialist Poland” (2013).
- Paul Brykczynski, “Political Murder and the Victory of Ethnic Nationalism in Interwar Poland” (2013).
- Dong Ju Kim (Anthro-History), “Taking Better Care of the Fields: Knowledge Politics of Sugar Beet, Soil, and Agriculture After Socialism in Western Poland” (2012).
- Maria Falina (Central European University, History), “Pyrrhic Victory: East Orthodox Christianity, Politics and Serbian Nationalism in the Interwar Period,” Dissertation from Central European University Press ( 2011).
- Raymond Patton, “Screamed Poetry: Rock in Poland’s Last Decade of Communism” (2011).
- Lenny Ureña, “The Stakes of Empire: Colonial Fantasies, Civilizing Agendas, And Biopolitics in the Prussian-Polish Provinces (1840-1914)” (2010).
- Emanuela Grama (Anthro-History), “Searching For Heritage, Building Politics: Archeology, Architecture and Representations of the Past in Romania (1945-2007)” (2009).
- Ji Li, ”Becoming Faithful: Christianity, Literacy, and Female Consciousness in Northeast China” (2008).
- Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, “Jews, Poles, and Slovaks: A Story of Encounters, 1944-48” (2008).
- Edin Hajdarpasic, “Whose Bosnia? National Movements, Imperial Reforms, and the Political Re-Ordering of the Late Ottoman Balkans, 1840-1875” (2008).
- Sylwia Ejmont (Comparative Literature), “The Troubadour Takes the Tram: Experience in Polish Poetry and Music” (2008).
- Emil Kerenji, “Jewish Citizens of Socialist Yugoslavia: Politics of Jewish Identity in a Socialist State “ (2008).
- Hadley Renkin, “Ambiguous Identities, Ambiguous Transitions: Lesbians, Gays, and the Sexual Politics of Citizenship in Postsocialist Hungary” (2007).
- Anna Mirkova, “Land Ownership and Modernization in the Transition from Imperial Ottoman to National Bulgarian Rule (1878-1908)” (2006).
- Kristin McGuire, “To Do is To Be: Activism, Identity and the Gendered Terms of Citizenship in Poland and Germany, 1890-1918” (2004).
- Bob Greene, “Bodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia, 1860s-1920s” (2004).
- Jeffrey Wilson, “Nature and Nation: the ‘German Forest’ as a National Symbol, 1871-1914” (2002).
- Patrick Patterson, “Consumer Culture under Socialism and the Unmaking of the Yugoslav Dream, 1945-1991” (2001).
- David Althoen, “That Noble Quest: From True Nobility to Enlightened Society in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1550-1830” (2000).
- Hugh Lane, “State Culture and National Identity in a Multi-Ethnic Context: Lemberg, 1772-1914” (1999).
- Theresa Ursic, “Religious Freedom in Post-World War II Yugoslavia” (1997).
- Terry Bodenhorn, “Scribes at War: Propagandists and the Construction of a ‘Modern China’ circa 1935” (1997).

Master’s Thesis Supervision.
- Dan Glasson, REES MA: “Patterns and Causes of Suburban Development around Warsaw,” 2006.
- Matthew Konieczny, REES MA: “The Polish Constitutional Debates: Constructing Politics,” 2002.
- Ewa Wampuszyc, REES MA: “Conflicting National Mythologies in the Narratives of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944,” 1996.
- Victoria Klein, REES MA: “The Concept of ‘Nation/People’ in the Writing of Michael Bakunin,” 1996.
- Krystyna Bujakiewicz, REES MA: “The Use of History in Polish Constitutional Debates, 1791 to the present,” 1995.
- Christine Stuebner, REES MA: “Fragments of a Federation: Ethnically Mixed Couples in Slovenia,” 1995.
- Elizabeth Belkind, REES MA, 1995.
- Timothy Neboyskey, REES MA, 1995.

Senior Honors Thesis Supervision.
- Aleksandra Paradowska, “The Politics of National Memory in Contemporary Poland,” 2020.
- Mary Bridget Lee, “Redefining Éireann: The Decline of Women’s Rights in the Era of Irish Nationalism, 1916-1937,” 2015.
- Rachel Lerner, “Butler’s Battle: Wartime and the Nature of Compromise. An Analysis of British Educational Reform during WWII,” 2015.
- Anna Gwiazdowski, “Social Advocacy & Ecumenism: How ministering to Welfare Needs Impacted Interdenominational Cooperation,” 2014.
- Juliann Marie Schwartz, “Gradations of Hate: Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Rhetoric of Anti-Semitism, 1930-1939,” 2009.
- Callie Wang, “Rebellion, Aggression, Empire: The Use of the Language of Just War Theory by the Vatican during World War II,” 2008.
- Luciana Aenasoaie, History Honors Thesis, “Strangers at Home: The Marginalization of Roma in Romania,” 2006.
- Gabriel Edelson, History Honors Thesis, “A Crisis of Identity: Remembering Stalingrad in Anglo-America,” 2006.
- Anna Sidor, REES Honors Thesis, “Orange Alternative and the Fall of Communism in Poland,” 2005.
- Katherine Wroblewski, History Honors Thesis, “Monumental Representations: Constructing National Identity in Post-World War II Poland,” 2003.
- Ramona R. Cotca, History Honors Thesis, “Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: The Romanian Case,” 2001.
- Alyssa Brody, History Honors Thesis, “From Pride to Prejudice: Romanticism and the Origins of German Nationalism,” 2000.
- Chandra Luczak, REES Honors Thesis, “From Nationalist Hostility to Ethnic Persecution: An Analysis of the Polish United Worker’s Party’s Anti-Zionist Campaign and its Origins,” 2000.
- Anna Kovalszki: Art History Honors Thesis: “Munkácsy Mihály: Siralomház,” 1999.
- Danicia Kobasic: REES Honors Thesis: “Bits and Pieces: Anti-Communist Insurgency in Romania, 1945-1956,” 1999.
- Megan Ann Henry, History Honors Thesis: “Rhetoric and Realpolitik: The Helsinki Accords and Czechoslovak Émigrés,” 1997.
- Tiffany Troxel: REES Honors Thesis: “Show Trials and the Question of Believability: The Moscow Show Trials,” 1996.

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