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Prof. Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek

Prof. Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek

 

Prof. Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek is a graduate of the English Language Department at the Jagiellonian University with a major in translation and teaching English as a foreign language. She studied at the Chair of American Studies at the Jagiellonian University’s postgraduate studies program. Prof. Paluszkiewicz-Misiazek’s Ph.D. dissertation, entitled: Social Advancement and the Change of the Victorian Ideal of the Woman in Canada at the Turn of Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, was defended in 2004. In 1996-2004, she was a teacher of English at the Department of Foreign Languages Teaching at the Jagiellonian University. Currently, Prof. Paluszkiwicz-Misiaczek is an assistant professor at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora at the Jagiellonian University, where she teaches the following classes in Polish and English: The History of the United States; An Introduction to Canada; The History of Canada; The B.A. Seminar; and Monographic Lectures on the History of Women in the United States and Canada. She received the Dean's Award for didactic achievements in the 2008-2009 academic year and works as a certified translator at the District Court in Krakow.

Functions:

  • Cooperation with the Canadian embassy
  • Coordination of the implementation of students' classes at the Pedagogical College
  • Elected member of the Council at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora

Academic interests:

  • The veterans of peacekeeping missions
  • The history of women in the United States and Canada with a particular emphasis on women's organizations as well as social and charitable work
  • The history and problems of indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States

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Publications

2015, Najeźdźcy w sukniach. Awans społeczny i zmiana wiktoriańskiego wizerunku kobiety w Kanadzie na przełomie XIX i XX wieku, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń, pp. 239.

2015, Szacunek i wsparcie - kanadyjski system opieki nad weteranami, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Księgarnia Akademicka, Seria Societas, pp. 204.

2022, Polska odmiana greckiej tragedii antycznej rozgrywająca się na kanadyjskiej ziemi, czyli działalność Stowarzyszenia Polskich Kombatantów w Kanadzie w latach 1946-1989 widziana przez pryzmat kwartalnika SPK w Kanadzie ("The Polish Version of the Greek Ancient Tragedy Taking Place on Canadian Soil, i.e. the Activity of the Association of Polish Combatants in Canada in 1946-1989 as seen through the Prism of the SPK Quarterly in Canada), [in:] Pomiędzy Starym a Nowym Światem. Historia, migracje, etniczność ("Between the Old and the New World: History, Migrations, Ethnicity") (volume dedicated to Professor Adam Walaszek), eds. Marta Kijewska-Trembecka, Ewa Michna, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 197-212.

2020, From Shell Shock to Operational Stress Injury! – Canadian (Re) Visions of Approach Towards the Psychological Consequences of Participation in Military Operations [in:] Canadian Political, Social and Historical (Re)visions in 20th and 21st Century, Marcin Gabryś, Magdalena Marczuk-Karbownik, Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek (eds.), Berlin: Peter Lang Publishing, pp. 287-312.

2016, Formacja Canadian Rangers - historia i współczesne wyzwania [in:] Pani Anna w Kanadzie. Księga pamiątkowa dedykowana Pani Profesor Annie Reczyńskiej, eds. Marcin Gabryś, Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, pp. 251-272.

2015, "Notwithstanding its Awfulness… I Couldn't Have Stayed Away" — The Great War in the Eyes of Canadian Military Nurses Sophie Hoerner and Dorothy Cotton  [in:] Re-Imagining the First World War: New Perspectives in Anglophone Literature and Culture, eds. Anna Branach-Kallas, Nelly Strehlau, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 314-329

2014, Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian Military [in:] Indigenous Perspectives of North America: A Collection of Studies, eds.  Eniko Sepsi, Judit Nagy, Miklós Vassányi, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 387-404.

2014, White House Hostess, Pet Causes Campaigner, Convention Speaker - Evolution og Position and Role of American First Lady, [in:] 2012 Presidential Election in the United States: Challenges and Expectations, eds. Paweł Laidler, Maciej Turek, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, pp. 47-63.

2013, Canadian Policy Towards Veterans - From WWI to Afghanistan, [in:] Variations on Community: The Canadian Space, eds. Lucia Otrisalova, Eva Martonyi, Brno: Masaryk University, pp. 245-256.

2012, Niełatwo  być pionierem. Wspomnienia Elizabeth Blackwell - pierwszej kobiety lekarza w USA, [in:] Amerykomania. Księga jubileuszowa Profesora dra hab. Andrzeja Mani, tom 2, red. Włodzimierz Bernacki, Adam Walaszek, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 663-650.

2011, Diversity at  the Canadian Armed Forces – Historical Perspective and Current Problems,  [in:] Towards Critical Multiculturalism – Dialogues Between/Among Canadian Diasporas, eds. Ewelina Bujanowska, Marcin Gabryś, Tomasz Sikora, Katowice: Para, pp. 402-424.

2009, The Persons Case – Meanders of Canadian History, [in:]  From the Foundation of Quebec City to Present-Day Canada (1608-2008): Retrospections, Path of Change, Challenge,  eds. Krzysztof Jarosz, Zuzanna Szatanik, Joanna Warmuzińska-Rogóż, Katowice: Para, pp. 51-60.

2006, Filles du Roi – European Way of Solving Demographic Problems in the North American Colonies, [in:] United States and Europe. Conflict versus Collaboration, red. Andrzej Mania, Paweł Laidler, Katarzyna Spiechlanin, Łukasz Wordliczek, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 65-70.

2006, Katarzyna Spiechlanin, Drenaż mózgów – emigracja zarobkowa białego personelu do krajów UE, [in:] Polonia i Polacy w krajach Unii Europejskiej, eds. Marek Nadolski, Witold Rybczyński, Pułtusk: Akademia Humanistyczna im. Aleksandra Gieysztora, pp. 53-67.

2006, Udział kobiet w życiu politycznym na przykładzie USA i Kanady, [in:] Amerykańska demokracja w XXI wieku, eds. Andrzej Mania, Paweł Laidler, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 209-214.

2005, Strategies and Methods in Dealing with Culture Specific Expressions on the Basis of Polish-English Translations of Chosen Administrative and Institutional Terms, [in:] Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, vol. 3, Brno, pp. 243-248.

2005, From Strength to Weakness – Changing Position of Women in Societies of New France and British North America, [in:] Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives, eds. Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek, Anna Reczyńska, Anna Śpiewak, Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, pp. 377-386.

2003, "Mrs Western Canada" - Nellie McClung as Embodiment of Western Spirit, [in:] „Literatura - Canadian Studies ", eds. Giedrius Vilunas, vol. 45 (5), Vilnius University Publishing House 2003, pp. 41-45.

2002, Development of Women Organizations in Canada in the Second Part of the 19th Century and Their Influence Upon Formation of the New Country, [in:] Exploring Canadian Identities, eds. Ewa Wełnic, Anna Branach-Kallas, Jakub Wójcik, Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, pp. 181-194.

2018, “They Should Vanish Into Thin Air ... and Give no Trouble”:  Canadian Aboriginal Veterans of World Wars,  „Journal of Military and Strategic Studies”, Volume 19, 2, pp. 115-136

2018, Polish Combatants’ Association in Canada and Its Support for Solidarity Movement and Polish Refugees in 1980s, „Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polnijny”, 4(170), pp. 77-96.

2014, Mythical Canada in Polish Minds: the Image of Canada in Polish Literature, „Ad Americam", vol. 15,0 pp. 103-116.

2011, Changes in Marriage, Divorce and Child Custody Law in Victorian Canada,  „TransCanadiana – Polish Journal of Canadian Studies ", vol. 4, pp. 175-192.

2010, Colonization and Decolonization of Inuit Population in Canada , „Ad Americam ", vol. 11, pp. 91-99.

2008, Dionne Quintuplets – Unsuccessful Experiment of a Noble Society, „Ad Americam ", vol. 9, pp.69-76

2000, Gender and Women Employment in Medical Professions in Canada at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century, „Ad Americam ", vol. 1, pp. 80-84.

2020, Canadian Political, Social and Historical (Re)visions in 20th and 21st Century, Berlin: Peter Lang Publishing, pp. 318, (co-editors: Magdalena Marczuk-Karbownik, Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek).

2018, Experience of Solidarity -  Solidarity in Experience,  „Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny", 4(170), (co-author prof. Anna Reczyńska).

2016, Pani Anna w Kanadzie, Księga pamiątkowa dedykowana Pani Profesor Reczyńskiej, Księgarnia Akademicka, s 367, (co-editor: Marcin Gabryś).

2011, Changing Discourses on Canada: at the Crossroads of Cultures and Identities - „TransCanadiana – Polish Journal of Canadian Studies", 4.2011, (co-editor: Zuzanna Żuchelkowska).

2005, Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives, Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, p. 592, (co-editors: Anna Reczyńska, Anna Śpiewak).

2014/2015, Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek: Anna Branach-Kallas, Uraz przetrwania: Trauma i polemika z mitem pierwszej wojny światowej w powieści kanadyjskiej [in:] "TransCanadiana – Polish Journal of Canadian Studies" vol. 7, pp. 243-244.

1998, Polonia in Alberta 1895-1995. The Polish Centennial in Alberta, red. Andrzej M. Kobos, Jolanta T. Pękacz. Edmonton 1995, / rev. [in:] „Przegląd Polonijny" no. 4, 1998, pp. 135-136.

2011, The Department of State, 1789-1939. The First 150 Years of its Participation in US Foreign Policy, [in:] Andrzej Mania, Department of State 1789-1939. Pierwsze 150 lat udziału w polityce zagranicznej USA, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 265-273.

1996, Dyrektywa  90/314/EWG z dnia 13 czerwca 1990 r o podróżach turystycznych za cenę zryczałtowaną, [in:] „Kwartalnik Prawa Prywatnego", Rok V, z. 3, pp. 603-609.

1996, Konwencja unidroit o faktoringu międzynarodowym, [in:] „Kwartalnik Prawa Prywatnego", rok V, z. 4, pp 810-817.

2021, 30.09 -1.10, 31st Association of European Migration Institutions Conference; “Polish veterans of WWII in Canada and their peculiar relations with communist Poland”, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

2020, 18-20 September, XVII Forum Zaawansowanych Studiów nad Stanami Zjednoczonymi im. Profesora Andrzeja - Before and After the Nineteenth Amendment: The Changing Roles of American Women in Society, "Peaceful and Patient Campaigning - Canadian Road to Female Suffrage", University of Bialystok, Poland.

2019, 25-27 September, Canadian (Re)Visions: Futures, Changes, Revolutions - The 8th Congress of Polish Canadianists, "From Shell Shock to Operational Stress Injury: Canadian Evolution in Approach Towards Psychological Consequences of Participation in Military Operations", University of Lodz, Poland.

2017, 16-18 czerwca, Sixth World Congress of Polish Studies, “The Polish Combatants’ Association in Canada and Its Sup-port for the Solidarity Movement and Polish Refugees in the 1980s”, The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America, Polska Akademia Umiejętności, University of Gdańsk, Poland. 

2018, 20-21 November, "Wolność, równość…dla wszystkich? Kobiety w walce o awans społeczny 1700-1918”, "Kobiety na banknoty – czyli kto i kogo powinien zastąpić na amerykańskich i kanadyjskich dolarach", University of Wrocław, Poland.

2017, 05-06 December, "The Role of Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Military", "They Should Vanish into Thin Air and Give no Trouble - Canadian Aboriginal Veterans of World Wars", École nationale d’administration publique, Gatineau (Quebec), Canada.

2017, 23-25 June, XIV Forum Zaawansowanych Studiów nad Stanami Zjednoczonymi im. Profesora Andrzeja Bartnickiego, "Soldier’s Return - Canadian WWI Veteran Care System", University of Białystok, Poland.

2016, 19-21 May, Canada and War - 7th Congress of Polish Canadianists, “Sixty Years’ War - Efforts of Canadian First Nations Veterans, Merchant Navy Seamen and Chemical  Test Volunteers to Gain Full Range of Services and Benefits After WWII”, Nicolaus Copernicus Univeristy in Toruń, Poland.

2015, 25 September, Pola Chwały „Psychologia boju na przestrzeni dziejów. Człowiek w doświadczeniu granicznym", Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

2015, 18-20 June, "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Security in the Changing World", Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

2015, 25 February, Konferencja Koła Naukowego Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego „Stres bojowy i pourazowy u żołnierzy w ujęciu historycznym i współczesnym" Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

2015, 05-07 February, 10th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies  "Creating, Shaping, Signifying", Faculty of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

2014, 25-29 September, "Re-Imagining the First World War: (Hi)stories, Myths and Propaganda in Anglophone Literature and Culture", Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.

2013, 21-23 June, X Forum Zaawansowanych Studiów nad Stanami Zjednoczonymi im. Prof. Andrzeja Bartnickiego  „American Success: Its Many Faces Past and Present", University of Białystok, Poland.

2013, 5-7 April, VI Kongres Polskiego Towarzystwa Badań Kanadyjskich „The Peaceable Kingdom? Cultural and Language Communities in Canada  and the Rule of Law", Poznań, Poland.

2012, 26-27 October, „2012 Presidential Elections in the United States: Challenges and Expectations", Instytut Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych, Jagiellonian Univeristy in Kraków, Poland.

2012, 12-14 October, 6th International Conference of Central European Canadianists „Democracy, Diversity, Dignity - The Canadian Space", Bratysława, Slovakia..

2012, 8-10 March, „Indigenous Perspectives of North America", Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.

2011, 7-8 October, „Nordic Configurations: Problems, Paradigms and Possibilities", International Baltic Conference on Canadian Studies, Vilnius University, Vilnus, Lituania.

2010, 20-22 Ocotber, „American Diversity: Identities, Narratives, Politics", Polish Association of American Studies (PAAS), Univeristy of Łódź, Poland.

2010, 7-9 October, V Kongres Polskiego Towarzystwa Badań Kanadyjskich  „Towards Critical Multiculturalism:  Dialogues Between/ Among Canadian Diasporas", Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

2009, 15 January „Misja w Afganistanie: ograniczenia i wyzwania. Zwalczanie terroryzmu AD 2009", Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland.

2008, 18-19 April, „Amerykański mit w kulturze polskiej. Konstrukcja. Rekonstrukcja. Dekonstrukcja", Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

2008, 8-11 October, „From the foundation of Québec City to Present-Day Canada (1608–2008): Retrospections, Paths of Change, Challenges", Silesian University in Katowice, Ustroń.

2008, 22-24 October, „The Past in the Present: The American Uses of History", Polish Association for American Studies, Warsaw, Poland.

2008, 20-22 November, „Lekarze medycyny jako twórcy literatury polskiej i obcej", Maria Curie-Skłodowska Univeristy, Lublin, Poland.

2007, 20 April, „Aboriginal People of North America and European Colonization – 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Jamestown", Śródmiejski Ośrodek Kultury, Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

2007, 26-28 April, IV Kongres Polskiego Towarzystwa Badań Kanadyjskich „Canadian Ghosts, Hopes, Values", Puławy, Poland.

2005, 2-4 February, 8th Brno Conference  of English, American and Canadian Studies, Brno, Czech Republic.

2001, 20-22 April, „Exploring Canadian Identities", Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń.

2001, 6 Ocotber, Second One-Day Conference on Canadian Studies „Canadian Women", Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.

1999, 11-13 Ocotber „8th European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies", Groningen, The Netherlands.

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Research projects and media

  • Preparation of a monograph: Two Countries, Two Systems, One Mission - Policy of Poland and Canada Towards its Afghan Mission Veterans.
  • 2011 - research grant at JFK Institute of American Studies at Berlin Free University.
  • 2007 - The Tokyo Foundation; Joint Initiatives Program (JIP) - Bridging the distance - Photo Auto-Portrayals of Two Small Communities in Poland and Canada – together with B. Hlebowicz Ph.D. and Alicja Froń M.A.
  • 2005 - library research grant at Masaryk University in Brno.
  • 2001 - esearch grant at Ottawa University sponsored by Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders' Fund – Japan.
  • 2000 - research grant at JFK Institute of American Studies at Berlin Free University.
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