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prof. Adam Walaszek

prof. Adam Walaszek

 

MA in history, 1974, PhD in history, 1981, habilitation, 1989; academic title of professor, 1995; position of full professor, 2008.

Functions:

  • Council Chairperson of the Institute Council
  • 2016-today: Head of the Department of Latin America of the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora at the Jagiellonian University
  • 2008-2016: Director of the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora at the Jagiellonian University
  • 2004-2008: Deputy Director at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora
  • 2005: Acting Head of the Department of Latin America at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora at the Jagiellonian University
  • 1993-1996: Director of the Polonia Institute, Jagiellonian University
  • 1991, 1997, 1998 - 2021: head of the Department of the History of International Migration Movements at the Polish Institute of Polonia (presently, the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora)
  • 1990-1995: Docent, Institute of Polish Language Research, Jagiellonian University
  • 1981-1990: Adjunct, Institute of Polish Language Research, Jagiellonian University
  • 1976-1981: Assistant, Institute of Polish Language Research, Jagiellonian University
  • 1974-1976: Assistant, Institute of History, Jagiellonian University

Research interests:

  • The history of Polonia in the United States (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
  • The history of Polish and European migration in the modern and contemporary periods
  • The social history of the United States
  • American ethnic history and interethnic relations in the United States
  • Immigrant childhood children in the United States (nineteenth-twentieth centuries)
Membership and functions:
  • 2022 until today: Chairman of the PAU Commission for the Study of the Polish Diaspora
  • 2020 until today, a member of Advisory Board "Migrations in History" Series (DeGruyter Publ.)
  • 2015 – Present: Member of Editorial Board "Polish American Studies" (USA)
  • 2015-2018 – Member of the Migration Research Committee at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 – Present: Chairman of the Program Board of Migration Studies - Polonia Review, Polish Academy of Learning, Warsaw
  • 2013 – Present: Member of the Editorial Board of The Polish Review (New York), PIASA
  • 2012 – Present: Member of the Editorial Board (Editorial Advisory Board) of: Migration-Ethnicity-Nation: Cracow Studies in Culture, Society and Politics, Frankfurt-Berlin-Bern: Peter Lang
  • 2010-2015: Member of the Committee for Research on Migration of Population and Polish Diaspora of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 2009-2012: Member of the Scientific Council (Council) of the Polish American Historical Association, United States
  • 2008-2012, member of Consello Cientifico Estudos Migratorios. Revista Galega de Análise das Migracións (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
  • 2007 – Present:: Vice-Chairman of the Inter-Faculty Committee of the Polish Academy of Learning for Diaspora Research
  • 2007: Member of the Committee for Migration of Population and Polonia at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 2004-2008: Editor-in-Chief of the Przegląd Polonijny quarterly (Polish Academy of Sciences)
  • 2004-2007, member of the Organizational Committee of the First Congress of Foreign Researchers in Poland, Krakow
  • 2004-2005: Member of the Program Committee of the First Congress of Polish Scientific Societies in Abroad, Polish Academy of Learning, Krakow, September 8-11, 2005.
  • 2005 – Present: Member of the Editorial Board of Rocznik Polonii (Bydgoszcz)
  • 2003 – Present: Member of the editorial committee of Politeia: Letter from the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University; Member of the Editorial Board of the Ad Americam journal (Krakow, Jagiellonian University)
  • 2003 – Present: Member of the Scientific Council Center de documentation of sur migrations humaines, Dudelange, Luxembourg
  • 1999-2005: Member of the Editorial Board of Central European Studies at the University of Rochester Press, University of Rochester, United States
  • 1999: Member of the Editorial Board of the Polish and American Studies Series, Ohio State University, United States
  • 1999 – Present: Member of the Editorial Board of Dve Domoviny / Two Homelands (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • 1998 – Present: Alumn Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria
  • 1993 - 1998: Member of the Scientific Council of the Polish American Historical Association, United States
  • 1991-2007: Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences Research Committee
  • 1991-2004: Member of the Editorial Committee of the "Przegląd Polonijny" quarterly

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Publications

2020, Polacy w Chicago. Doświadczenie imigranta: integracja, izolacja, asymilacja (“Poles in Chicago: The Immigrant Experience – Integration, Isolation, Assimilation”), ed. Adam Walaszek, Warsaw: Polish History Museum.

2011, Życie na pograniczu i ‘życie pomiędzy'. Polacy w zagłębiu antracytowym w Luzerne County, Pensylwania z innymi grupami w tle (1753-1902) (“Life at the Limits and ‘Life Between’: Poles in the Anthracite Basin in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, with Other Groups in the Background [1753-1902]”), Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 157.

2007, Migracje Europejczyków 1650-1914 (“The Migrations of Europeans, 1650-1914”), Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 329.

1994, Światy imigrantów. Tworzenie polonijnego Cleveland, Ohio, 1880-1930 (“The Worlds of Immigrants: Creating a Polish Cleveland, Ohio, 1880-1930”), Krakow: Nomos, pp. 231.

1988, Polscy robotnicy, praca i związki zawodowe w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki, 1880-1922 (“Polish Laborers, Labor, and Labor Unions in the United States of America, 1880-1922”), Wroclaw‑Warszw: Ossolineum, pp. 250.

1983, Reemigracja ze Stanów Zjednoczonych do Polski po I wojnie światowej, 1919-1924 (“Re-Immigration from the United States to Poland After World War I, 1919-1924”), Warsaw‑Krakow: Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Prace Polonijne, No. 7, pp. 182.

2021, Образы поляков и их соседей в польских учебниках, изданных в США в начале XX века ("Images of Poles and Their Neighbors in Polish Textbooks Published in the United States at the Beginning of the 20th Century, [in:] Корабли из бумаги: Эмиграция и учебная книга XIX-ХХ вв. ("Ships from Paper: Emigration and a Study Book of the 19th-20th Centuries"), Tuła, Rosja, ss. 52-67.

2020, Wstęp (“Introduction”), [in:] Polacy w Chicago. Doświadczenie imigranta: integracja, izolacja, asymilacja (“Poles in Chicago: The Immigrant Experience – Integration, Isolation, Assimilation”), ed. Adam Walaszek, Warsaw: Polish History Museum, pp. 7-10.

2020, Życie codzienne w dzielnicy Back of the Yards, Chicago 1905-1909 (“Everyday Life in the Back of the Yards Neighborhood in Chicago, 1905-1909”), [in:] Polacy w Chicago. Doświadczenie imigranta: integracja, izolacja, asymilacja (“Poles in Chicago: The Immigrant Experience – Integration, Isolation, Assimilation”), ed. Adam Walaszek, Warsaw: Polish History Museum, pp. 99-115.

2020, Migrationsbewegungen in und aus den polnische Gebieten (“Migration Movements Within and out of Polish Lands“), [in:] Polen in der europäischen Geschichte. Ein Handbuch (“Poland and European History: A Handbook”), Band 3, eds. M.G. Műller, I. Kąkolewski, K. Holste, R. Traba, Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann KG Verlag, pp. 533-576.

2018, Portuguese and Polish Migrations: Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks (Sixteenth Century Until 1939), [in:] Migraciones y diasporas de America Latina Contemporanea (“Migrations and Diasporas in Contemporary Latin America”), eds. Karol Derwich, Monika Sawicka, Krakow: WUJ, 2017 [ed. 2018], pp. 13-42.

2018, Transatlantycki szlak: rozwój portowych infrastruktur dla migrantów w XIX i XX wieku (“The Transatlantic Trail: The Development of Migrant Port Infrastructure in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”), [in:] Przestrzenie emigracji. Dworzec Morski i infrastruktura emigracyjna w Gdyni (“Dimensions of Emigration: The Marine Station and Emigration Infrastructure in Gdynia”), Gdynia: Emigration Museum, ed. A. Walaszek, pp. 8-37.

2017, Portugalskie i polskie migracje: Wstęp (“Portuguese and Polish Migrations: An Introduction”), [in:] Polacy i ich potomkowie w Ameryce Łacińskiej. Monografia naukowa (“Poles and Their Descendants in Latin America: An Academic Publication”), ed. Rafał Raczyński, Gdynia: Emigration Museum, pp. 29-51.

2013, Central Eastern Europeans in the Euro Atlantic Migration System Before the First World War, [in:] Tales of Transit: Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective 1850-1950, eds. Michael Boyden, Hans Krabbendam, Liselotte Vandenbussche, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 27-42.

2012, ‘Płacz na początku podróży może przynieść jedynie nieszczęście' – wychodźstwo Żydów z Europy Środkowo-wschodniej przed Wielką Wojną (“‘Crying at the Beginning of the Journey Can Only Bring Misfortune’: Jewish Emigration from East-Central Europe Before the First World War”0, [in:] Amerykomania (“Americomania”), Vol. 2, eds. Włodzimierz Bernacki, Adam Walaszek, Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 907-924.

2010, Do Ameryki za chlebem: Central Eastern Europeans Cross the Atlantic, [in:] Leaving Home. Migration Yesterday and Today, eds. Diethelm Knauf/Barry Moreno, Bremen: Edition Temmen, 2010, pp. 63-77.

2009, Migracyjne wybory i dyskusje wokół nich na ziemiach polskich 1870-1914 (“Migration Choices and Discussions Surrounding Them in the Polish Lands, 1870-1914”), [in:] Między konfrontacją a współpracą. Historia - polityka – migracje. Księga pamiątkowa na upamiętnienie 50-lecia pracy naukowej Profesora Jana E. Zamojskiego (“Between Confrontation and Cooperation: History, Politics, Migration – A Commemorative Book to Mark the Fiftieth Anniversary of Prof. Jan E. Zamojski’s Academic Work”), (eds.) E. Kowalska, Warsaw: History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, pp. 233-250.

2009, Diaspora, [in:] The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present Day, eds. Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier, associate editors Jane Carruthers, Donna Gabaccia, Rana Mitter, Mariano Plotkin, Patrick Verley, Houndmills-New York: Palgrave-Macmillan Publ., pp. 273-278.

2009, Migrations from a Galician Village: Babica before World War I, [in:] European Mobility: Internal, International, and Transatlantic Moves in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, eds. Annemarie Steidl, Josef Ehmer, Stan Nadel, Hermann Zeitlhofer, Transkulturelle Perspektiven, Vol. 8, Göttingen: V&R unipress, pp. 79-87.

2009, Zum Brot – Osteuropaer auf dem Weg nach Amerika, [in:] Aufbruch in die Fremde. Migration gestern und heute, ed. Diethelm Knauf/Barry Moreno, Bremen: Edition Temmen, pp. 129-149.

2009, Migracyjne szlaki w Europie Środkowej w XVIII wieku w perspektywie mikro: Salzburg – Saksonia –Prusy Wschodnie – Królestwo Polskie – Ameryka (“Migration Trails in Central Europe in the Eighteenth Century from a Micro Perspective: Salzburg, Saxony, East Prussia, the Kingdom of Poland, America”), [in:] Zrozumieć współczesność. Profesorowi Hieronimowi Kubiakowi w 75. rocznicę urodzin (“Understanding Modernity: For Profesor Hieronim Kubiak on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday”), eds. Grzegorz Babiński, Maria Kapiszewska, Krakow: Krakowska Szkoła Wyższa, pp. 141-151.

2009, Wychodźcy zarobkowi – straceni dla „sprawy" czy patrioci? (“Wage-Motivated Migrants: A Loss for ‘The Cause’ or Patriots?”), [in:] Formuły patriotyzmu w Europie Wschodniej i Środkowej od nowożytności do współczesności (“Forms of Patriotism in Eastern and Central Europe from Modernity to Today”), eds. Andrzej Nowak, Andrzej A. Zięba, Krakow: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, pp. 325-351.

2009, Migracje i ziemie polskie w latach 1854-1914, [in:] Emigracja z Klępska i okolic do Australii w 1838 r. (“Emigration from Klepsk and Its Environs to Australia in 1838”0, eds. Anitta Maksymowicz, Sulechów-Zielona Góra, Muzeum Ziemi Lubuskiej, pp. 33-62.

2008, Imigracja (“Immigration”), [in:] Ameryka. Społeczeństwo, kultura, polityka (“America: Society, Culture, Politics”), Vol. 1, ed. Tomasz Płudowski, Torun: Adam Marszałek, pp. 97-127.

2008, Polonia amerykańska (“The American Polish Diaspora”), [in:] Ameryka. Społeczeństwo, kultura, polityka (“America: Society, Culture, Politics”), Vol. 1, ed. Tomasz Płudowski, Toruń: Adam Marszałek, pp. 219-250.

2008, Diaspory (“Diasporas”), [in:] Etniczność w przemianach społeczności narodowych (“Ethnicity in Social Changes to Nations”), ed. Maria Szmeja, Krakow: Nomos, pp. 263-281.

2007, Emigration and Nation-Building During the Mass Migrations from Europe, [in:] Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of migration and Expatriation, (eds.) Nancy L. Green, François Weil, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, pp. 63-90, (co-authors: Donna R. Gabaccia, Dirk Hoerder).

2006, Emigration et construction nationale en Europe (1815-1939), [in:] Citoyenneté et émigration: Les politiques du départ, eds. Nancy L. Green, François Weil, Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, pp. 67-94, (co-authors: Donna R. Gabaccia, Dirk Hoerder).

2006, Diaspora polska – ciągłość i trwanie w erze transnacjonalizmu? (“The Polish Diaspora: Continuity and Survival in the Age of Transnationalism?”), [in:] Rola dawnej i nowej emigracji polskiej w warunkach Unii Europejskiej (“The Role of the Old and New Polish Immigrants Under the Conditions of the European Union”), Krakow: Polish Academy of Learning, pp. 59-86.

2006, Polonia amerykańska i amerykańscy historycy (“The Polish Diaspora in the United States and American Historian”), [in:] Diaspora polska w procesach globalizacji: stan i perspektywy badań (“The Polish Diaspora in the Processes of Globalization: The State and Perspectives of Research”), eds. Grzegorz Babiński, Henryk Chałupczak, Krakow: Grell, pp. 39-62.

2005, Naród, bohaterowie i wrogowie w podręcznikach szkolnych Polonii amerykańskiej do lat trzydziestych XX wieku (“The Nation, Heroes, and Enemies in School Textbooks of the Polish Diaspora in the United States Through the 1930s”0, [in:] Kobiety i młodzież w migracjach. Migracje i społeczeństwo (“Women and Youths in Migrations: Migrations and Society”), Vol. X, ed. J. E. Zamojski, Warsaw 2005, pp. 421-442.

2005, Od Crèvecoeura po transnacjonalizm: „amerykanizacja" w piśmiennictwie historycznym (“From Crèvecoeur Through Transnationalism: ‘Americanization’ in the Historical Literature”), [in:] Historyk i historia. Studia dedykowane pamięci Prof. Mirosława Frančicia (“The Historian and History: Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Prof. Mirosław Frančic”), eds. Adam Walaszek, Krzysztof Zamorski, Krakow: Historia Iagiellonica, pp. 91-112.

2005, Mass Migrations: Their Economic, Political and Cultural Implications – Convenor's Overview, [in:] Twentieth International Congress of Historical Sciences: Programme, 3-9 July 2005, Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales, pp. 206-214.

2003, Labor Diasporas in Comparative Perspective: Polish and Italian Migrant Workers in Europe and America, 1870s-1920s, [in:] The Historical Practice of Diversity, eds. Dirk Hoerder, Christiana Harzig, Adrian Shubert, New York-Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 152-176.

2003, Teofil Antoni Starzyński (1878 – 1952) – w pięćdziesięciolecie śmierci (“Teofil Antoni Starzyński [1878-1952]: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death”), [in:] Z dziejów Polski i emigracji (1939-1989). Księga dedykowana byłemu Prezydentowi RP Ryszardowi Kaczorowskimu (“From the History of Poland and Emigration [1939-1989]: A Book Dedicated to the Former President of Poland in Exile Ryszard Kaczorowski”), ed. M. Szczerbiński, Vol. Wolsza, Gorzów Wielkopolski, pp. 491-505.

2003, Dzieci imigrantów i kontrola społeczna w Stanach Zjednoczonych w początkach wieku XX (“The Children of Immigrants and Social Control in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century”), [in:] Od narodzin do wieku dojrzałego. Dzieci i młodzież w Polsce, część II. Stulecie XIX i XX (“From Birth Until Maturity: Children and Youths in Poland, Part II: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”0, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, pp. 73-98.

2020, Scholars from Poland on the Pages of Polish American Studies, "Polish American Studies", 77(2020), No. 1, pp. 39-45.

2017, Czy historiografia wędruje ponad granicami? Historycy o transatlantyckich migracjach i diasporze polskiej w USA (“Does Historical Literature Transcend Borders? Historians on Transatlantic Migrations and the Polish Diaspora in the United States”), "Historyka" 47 (2017), pp. 215-235.

2017, Zbigniew Edmund Brodowski – dziennikarz, literat i działacz Polonii amerykańskiej (1852-1901) (“Zbigniew Edmund Brodowski: A Journalist, Writer, and Polish American Activist [1852-1901]”), "Polski Przegląd Migracyjny" (Gdynia), Vol. 1(2017), No. 2, pp. 9-19.

2017, Stanisław Ślisz – dziennikarz Polonii amerykańskiej (1859-1908) (“Stanisław Śliz: A Polish American Journalist [1859-1908]”), "Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny", No. 1, pp. 373-380.

2017, Salzburg – Saxony – East Prussia – Kingdom of Poland – America: One Family Migration Networks, Mutations, Mémoires et perspectives du Bassin Minier, (Luxembourg) 9 (2017), special issue: "Migrations – histoire, mémoire, patrimoine. Les 20 ans du CDMH a Dudelange", ed. A. Reuter, pp. 48-53.

2017, Nie tylko Ellis Island (“Not Only Ellis Island”), [in:] Augustus Francis Sherman. Atlas imigranta (“Augustus Francis Sherman: The Atlas of an Immigrant”), Gdynia: Emigration Museum, pp. 32-42.

2017, Czy historiografia wędruje ponad granicami? Historycy o transatlantyckich migracjach i diasporze polskiej w USA (“Does Historical Literature Transcend Borders? Historians on Transatlantic Migrations and the Polish Diaspora in the United States”), "Historyka" 47 (2017), pp. 215-235

2013, Kraj emigracji i kraj imigracji: wczesny paradoks Luksemburga (do 1914 r.) (“A Country of Emigrants and Immigrants: The Early Paradox of Luxembourg [Through 1914]”), "Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny", Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 5-18.

2013, Dwie europejskie peryferie: porównanie migracji portugalskich i polskich od XVI wieku do Wielkiej Wojny (“Two European Peripheries: A Comparison of Portuguese and Polish Migrations from the Sixteenth Century to the Great War”), "Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny", Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 15-50.

2013, Kazimierz Żychliński (24 II 1859 – 28 VIII 1927) działacz Polonii amerykańskiej. Notatki do biografii (“Kazimierz Żychliński [February 24, 1859-August 28, 1927]: A Polish American Activist – A Biographical Note”), "Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny", Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 243-256.

2012, Poljaci i Židovi iz Galicije i poljsjih krajeva, [in:] Veliki val. Isejavaje iz srednje Europe u Ameriku 1880-1914, ed. P.E. Dubrović, Rijeka: Muzej grada Rijeke, pp. 335-351.

2011, Das "El dorado" und die Wirklichkeit. Die Emigration aus Polen in die USA von 1914, "Osteuropa" 61, No. 3, pp. 47-61.

2010, Antoni Małłek (1851-1917) – działacz Polonii amerykańskiej, muzyk i polityk (“Antoni Małłek [1851-1917]: A Polish American Activist, Musician, and Politician”), "Studia Polonijne", Vol. 31, pp. 371-377.

2010, Von 'Polen in Amerika' zu 'Amerikanern polnisher Herkunft'. Migration, Diaspora und ethnische Imaginationen 1870-1930, Comparative, "Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Verleichende Gesselschaftsforschung", 20, heft ½, pp. 164-185.

2010, Od obchodów rocznicy Powstania Listopadowego po „Bartek Bieda Show". Kultura polska i polonijna w USA, 1870-1930 (“From Celebrations of the November Insurrection to the ‘Bartek Bieda Show’: Polish and Polish American Culture in the United States, 1870-1930”), "Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny", Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 71-89

2008, Christiane Harzig, "Przegląd Polonijny", No. 3-4, pp. 111-113.

2007, Images of Neighbors and Poles in Early Twentieth Century Polish American School Books, "Polish American Studies", LXIV, No. 1, pp. 87-107.

2007, Napływ Europejczyków do północnej Ameryki (XVI-XVIII w.): migracja dobrowolna i niedobrowolna (“The Influx of Europeans to North America in the Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries: Voluntary and Involuntary Migration”), "Politeja", No. 6, pp. 443-457.

2006, Słoweńscy wierni, duszpasterze i hierarchia kościelna: "sprawa" ks. Vitusa Hribara w Cleveland, Ohio (“Slovenian Believers, Priests, and Church Hierarchy: The ‘Case’ of Rev. Vitus Hribar in Cleveland, Ohio”), "Przegląd Polonijny", No. 4, pp. 5-22.

2005, Tomasz Siemiradzki: An Intellectual in Ethnic Politics, "Polish American Studies", LXII, No. 2, pp. 47-73.

2005, Mass Migrations: Their Economic, Political, and Cultural Implications, "Przegląd Polonijny", No. 1, pp. 7-16.

2004, Stulecie amerykańskiej literatury o Polonii 1900-2000 (“A Century of American Literature on the Polish Diaspora, 1900-2000”), "Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe", No. 1 (2), pp. 1-13.

2004, Migracje w Europie przedprzemysłowej: 1650-1750 (“Migrations in Pre-Industrial Europe: 1650-1750”), "Przegląd Polonijny", No. 2, pp. 5-44.

2004, Europejskie migracje w Europie protoprzemysłowej, 1750-1820 (“European Migrations in Proto-Industrial Europe, 1750-1820”), "Przegląd Polonijny", No. 4, pp. 35-56.

2003, Migracje w historii Europy – kilka uwag niekoniecznie nowych, „Przegląd Polonijny", no. 3, pp. 13-38.

2003, Marcin Kula i ludzkie historie (“Marcin Kula and Human Histories”), "Przegląd Polonijny", No. 3, pp. 5-12.

2003, Tomasz Siemiradzki – inteligent w polityce etnicznej (“Tomasz Siemiradzki: An Intellectual in Ethnic Policy”), "Przegląd Polonijny", No. 1, pp. 5-27.

2003, Wychodźcy, Emigrants, or Poles? Fears and Hopes About Emigration in Poland, 1870-1918-1939, "AEMI Journal" (Stavanger), Vol. 1, pp. 78-93.

2003, Ferocious Enemies and Noble Heroes: Images of ‘Us' and ‘Them' in Polish-American Textbooks Through the 1930s, "Migracijske i etničke teme" (Zagreb), No. 4 (19), pp. 433-449.

2012, The Polish Diaspora in America and the Wider World, Krakow: Polish Academy of Learning, pp. 172, (co-editors: Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, Janusz Pezda).

2012, Amerykomania, vol. 2 (“Americomania, Vol. 2”), Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 1121, co-editor: Włodzimierz Bernacki).

2011, Transformacje w Ameryce Łacińskiej (“Transformations in Latin America”), Krakow: Księgarnia Akademicka, pp. 177, (co-editor: Aleksandra Giera).

2009, Amerykomania, tom 1 (“Americomania, Vol. 1”), Krakow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, pp. 280 (co-editor: Włodzimierz Bernacki).

2005, Rodzina, prywatność, intymność. Dzieje rodziny polskiej w kontekście europejskim (“Family, Privacy, Intimacy: The History of the Polish Family in the European Context”), Warsaw: DiG, pp. 197, (co-editors: Dobrochna Kałwa, Anna Żarnowska).

2005, Historyk i historia. Studia dedykowane pamięci Prof. Mirosława Frančicia (“The Historian and History: Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Prof. Mirosław Frančic”), Krakow: Historia Iagiellonica, pp. 306, (co-editor: Krzysztof Zamorski).

2012, Magdalena Legocki, Z Trójwsi do Ameryki/From the Trivillage to America, Cieszyn, 2011, rev. [in:] "Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny", No. 4, pp. 141-143.

2009, Stanislus Blejwas, The Polish Singers Alliance of America, 1888-1998: Choral Patriotism, RochesterWoodbridge, Rochester University Press, 2005, rev. [in:] "Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny", No. 1, pp. 99-101.

2008, Mary Lou Nemanic, One Day for Democracy: Independence Day and the Americanization of Iron Range Immigrants, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007, rev. [in:] "Journal of American History", No. 1, pp. 224-225.

2008, Z życia i działalności Kongresu Polonii Amerykańskiej. Szkice (“From the Life and Activity of the Polish American Congress: Sketches”), ed. Ryszard Sudziński, Adam Sudoł, Torun: Wydawnictwo Wers, 2006, rev. [in:] "Przegląd Polonijny", 2008, No. 3-4, pp. 129-136.

2006, Irish and Polish Migration in Comparative Perspective, ed. John Belchem and Klaus Tenfelde, with editorial assistance by Brian McCook, Klartext Verlag, Essen, 2003, rev. [in:] "European History Quarterly", Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 602-603.

2006, Homelands: War, Population, and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia 1918-1924, ed. Nick Baron, Peter Garrell, London: Anthem Press, 2004, rev. [in:] "Slavonic and East European Review", No. 3, pp. 362-363.

2006, Joanna Wojdon, W imieniu sześciu milionów. Kongres Polonii Amerykańskiej w latach 1944-1968 (“In the Name of Six Million: The Polish American Congress in 1944-1968”), Torun 2005, rev. [in:] "Studia Historyczne", No. 1, pp. 100-102.

2005, John Radzilowski, The Eagle and the Cross: A History of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America, 1873-2000, Boulder, Co and New York: East European Monographs and Columbia University Press, 2003, rev. [in:] "Journal of American Ethnic History", No. 2, pp. 119-120.

2005, Marie Cegarra, O. Chovaux, R. Damiani, Gérard Dumont, J.-R. Genty, J. Ponty, Tous gueules noires. Histoire de l'immigration dans le basin minier du Nord-Pas- de-Calais, Collection Mémoires de Gaillette, No. 8, Centre historique minier du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, 2004, rev. [in:] "Przegląd Polonijny", No. 2, pp. 127-129.

2004, Karen Majewski, Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish American Identity, 1880-1939, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003, rev. [in:] "Journal of American History", Vol. 91, No. 1, pp. 276.

2003, R. Rumbaut, Dziedzictwo wojny: uchodźcy z Wietnamu, Laosu i Kambodży (“The Legacy of War: Refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia”), [in:] "Przegląd Polonijny", No. 1, pp. 49-74.

2011, The Polish American Encyclopedia, eds. J.S. Pula, Jefferson-London: McFarland & Co. Inc.:

  • Alliance of Poles in America, p. 11,
  • Barzyński Jan, p. 27,
  • Barzyński Wincenty Michał, pp. 27-28,
  • Central Polish Committee in America, p. 58,
  • Czołgosz Leon Franciszek, pp. 70-71,
  • Gebert Bolesław Konstanty, p. 146,
  • Gronouski John, p. 159,
  • Gwiazda Polarna, p. 164,
  • Jutrzenka, pp. 214-215,
  • Kikulski John, p. 226,
  • Kolasiński Dominik, p. 231,
  • Kolaszewski Antoni Franciszek, p. 231,
  • Krzycki Leo, p. 251,
  • Lattimer Massacre, ss. 265-266,
  • Małłek Antoni, p. 292,
  • Oral History Archives of Chicago Polonia, p. 335.
  • Polish Mechanics Association of America, pp. 398-399,
  • Polish Section, Socialist Party of the United States, p. 412,
  • Re-emigration to Poland, pp. 439-440,
  • Rokosz Stanisław, p. 453,
  • Sembrich Marcella, p. 477,
  • Siemiradzki Tomasz, p. 482,
  • Smulski Jan Franciszek, pp. 488-489,
  • Smulski Władysław Teodor, p. 489,
  • Starzyński Teofil A., p. 500,
  • Zand Helen, p. 560.

 

2005, Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji i Polonii, ed. K. Dopierała, Toruń: Oficyna Wyd. Kucharski, vol. 4:

  • Paryski Antoni A., p. 31,
  • Pensylwania (“Pennsylvania”), pp. 47-48,
  • Polsko Amerykańskie Towarzystwo Historyczne (“Polish American Historical Association”), pp. 158-9,
  • Pomoc Polonii amerykańskiej dla Polski (“The aid of American Polonia to Poland”), pp. 172-173,
  • Pułaski Kazimierz, pomniki w USA (“memorials in the United States”), pp. 212-213,
  • Rokosz Stanisław, p. 267,
  • Sawicki Józef, p. 343,
  • Siemiradzki Tomasz, pp. 368-9,
  • Smulski Jan Franciszek, pp. 41-11,
  • Stany Zjednoczone: Displaced Persons (“United States: Displaced Persons”), pp. 45-451,
  • Stany Zjednoczone: konflikty polsko-murzyńskie (“United States: conflicts between Polish and African Americans”), pp. 452-453,
  • Stany Zjednoczone: programy radiowe (“United States: radio programs”), pp. 458-459,
  • Stany Zjednoczone: socjaliści (“United States: socialists”), pp. 459-460,
  • Stany Zjednoczone: zmartwychwstańcy (“United States: Resurrectionist Order”), pp. 451-2,
  • Unia Polaków w Ameryce (“Union of Poles in America”), p. 195,
  • Walasiewicz Stanisława, p. 215,
  • Związek Polaków w Ameryce (“Association of Poles in America”), p. 455,
  • Związek Podhalan w Ameryce (“Association of Podhalians in America”), p. 453,
  • Związek Polek w Ameryce (“Association of Polish Women in America”), pp. 464-465,

2004, Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji i Polonii, eds. K. Dopierała, Toruń: Oficyna Wyd. Kucharski, vol. 3:

  • Król J., p. 57,
  • Kruszka M., p. 62,
  • Kruszka W., p. 62,
  • Milwaukee, Wisc., pp. 313-314,
  • Osada S ., pp. 484-485.

2004, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, vol. 42, z. 2 (174), Warszawa:

  • Teofil A. Starzyński, pp. 494-497.

2003, Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji i Polonii, ed. K. Dopierała, Toruń: Oficyna Wyd. Kucharski, vol. 2:

  • Geryk T., pp. 96-97,
  • Haiman M., pp. 182-183,
  • Kikulski J., p. 403,
  • Kolasiński D., p. 431,
  • Kolaszewski A, p. 431,
  • Knioła M.P., t. 2, p. 422.

2003, Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji i Polonii, ed. K. Dopierała, Toruń: Oficyna Wyd. Kucharski, vol. 1:

  • Andrzejkowicz J., p. 73,
  • Barzyński J., p. 156,
  • Budzińska K., p. 284,
  • Chicago, pp. 312-316,
  • Chłop polski w Europie i w Ameryce (“The Polish peasant in Europe and America”), pp. 319-310,
  • Cleveland, pp. 344,
  • Detroit, pp. 415-416.

2012, Introduction, [in:] The Polish Diaspora in America and the Wider World, eds. Adam Walaszek, Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, Janusz Pezda, Krakow: Polish Academy of Learning, p. 7.

2011, Kilka słów wstępu (“Several Words of Introduction”), [in:] Transformacje w Ameryce Łacińskiej (“Transformations in Latin America”), eds. Adam Walaszek, Aleksandra Giera, Krakow: Księgarnia Akademicka, pp. 7-8.

2009, Untitled, [in:] Olavi Koivukangas Siirtolaisuusinstituutin johtaja 1974-2009, p. 381.

2005, Prof. dr hab. Mirosław Francić, "Studia Historyczne", No. 1, pp. 127-129.

2005, Profesor Mirosław Frančić, [in:] Kobiety i młodzież w migracjach. Migracje i społeczeństwo (“Women and Youths in Migrations: Migrations and Society”), Vol. X, ed. J.E. Zamojski, Warsaw, pp. 500-501.

2005, Wstęp (“Introduction”), [in:] Historyk i historia. Studia dedykowane pamięci Prof. Mirosława Frančicia (“The Historian and History: Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Prof. Mirosław Frančic”), eds. Adam Walaszek, Krzysztof Zamorski, Krakow: Historia Iagiellonica, pp. 5-7, (co-author: Krzysztof Zamorski).

2005, Wstęp (“Introduction”), [in:] Rodzina - prywatność - intymność. Dzieje rodziny polskiej w kontekście europejskim (“Family, Privacy, Intimacy: The History of the Polish Family in the European Context”), eds. Dobrochna Kałwa, Adam Walaszek, Anna Żarnowska, Warsaw: DiG, pp. 7-9, (co-authors: Dobrochna Kałwa, Anna Żarnowska).

2016, “The Transnational Aspects of Migration,” Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.

2016, "Migracje i diaspory współczesnej Ameryki Łacińskiej" (“Migrations and Diasporas of Contemporary Latin America”), Krakow, Poland.

2016, “Migration and Generation,” Innsbruck, Austria.

2016, Annual AEMI Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

2016, "Polacy i Polonia w Ameryce Łacińskiej: przeszłość I teraźniejszość" (“Poles and the Polish Diaspora in Latin America: The Past and Present”0, Emigration Museum in Gdynia, Poland.

2016, “The Promotion of National Minorities,” Berlin, Germany.

2016, Committee on Migration Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

2015, “Transatlantic Migrations – Immigrant Communications and 'National Homes' in the USA,” Maribor, Slovenia.

2015, AEMI Annual Conference, Turin, Italy.

2015, XVth IMR Conference, Dudelange, Luxemburg.

2014, XIV IMR Conference: Migration and Mobility,” Köln, Germany.

2013, October 2, Association of European Migration Institutions Annual Conference, Karstad, Sweden.

2013, April 3, “Portuguese and Polish Current Migrations: Building the Future… Embracing the Past,” Lisbon, Portugal.

2013, March 4-6, Bilateral Cooperation Projects with Industrial Countries, Melbourne, Australia.

2012, November 8-9, “Echoes of Migrations: Memories of Representations of Migrants,” Lisbon, Portugal.

2012, January 5-7, American Historical Association Annual Conference, Chicago, USA.

2011, “Beyond the Borders, Behind the Men: The Invisibility of Female Migration,” University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.

2011, December 1-2, "Migracje a państwo. Etniczność, obywatelstwo, transnarodowość" (“Migrations and the State: Ethnicity, Citizenship, Trans-Nationality”), Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the University of Warsaw, Poland.

2011, November 24-26, “Migration to and from Europe: Different Modes of Inclusion and Exclusion towards Migrants in the Receiving Societies During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,”, Trier, Germany.

2011, 11th Internationale Konferenz Migration, Klagenfurt, Austria.

2010, May 13-14, "Migrationen", University of Leipzig, Germany.

2010, “Tales of Transition,” Antwerp, Belgium.

2010, December 6-7, "Polsko-niemieckie doświadczenia migracyjne. Przeszłość i teraźniejszość" (“Polish-German Migration Experiences: The Past and Present”), Krakow, Poland.

2009, "Emigracja z Kępska i okolic do Australii w 1838 r." (“Emigration from Kępsk and Its Environs to Australia in 1838”), Sulechów, Poland.

2009, General Assembly of Polish Historians, Olsztyn, Poland.

2009, “Migration, Politics and Work,” Ninth International Conference, Trier, Germany.

2008, II European Congress of World and Global History, Dresden, Germany.

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Research projects, scholarships, awards and media

  • Participation in the NCN grant American Polonia 1854-2004: NCN 0201/2512/2019 headed by Prof. Joanna Wojdon, University of Wroclaw. Completion date: 2022
  • Inter-Ethnic Relations in the United States in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • History of American Polonia Until 1939 
  • Childhood in Ethnic Groups in the United States in the 1930s

Scholarships:

  • 2011, One-month scholarship of the Lanckoronski Foundation Rome; Trips with Erasmus and CEEPUS lectures to the university: Santiago de Compostela, Catania, Roma III, Graz1979-1980, ten months, Kosciuszko Foundation, USA
  • 2005, One-month scholarship from the Lanckoronski Foundation, Rome
  • 2002, Visiting Professor, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, USA
  • 2000, Visiting Professor, Skalny Research Grant, Rochester, N.Y., USA
  • 1997-1998, Visiting Professor of Rock Foundation Grant, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
  • 1997, Scientific Research Committee - a grant for Polish-American research cooperation on interethnic relations
  • 1997, JFK Institute, Free University of Berlin, six-week scholarship
  • 1995, 1996, 1999 - DAAD (Bochum)1991-1992, ten months, American Council of Learned Societies scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
  • 1988-1990, participation in the international research project: “Conflict and Cooperation: The Experience of Immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe in the American City - Cleveland, Ohio, 1880-1930,” Volkswagen Stiftung
  • 1986, Ten months, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, United States
  • 1986, One month, Immigration History Research Center, Minneapolis-St. Paul travel grant
  • 1986, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Travel Grant from the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University in Detroit​

Awards:

  • 2007: First-level individual award of the Rector of the Jagiellonian University for the monograph Migracje Europejczyków 1650-1914 (“The Migrations of Europeans, 1650-1914”)
  • 2006: Joseph Swastek Award for the best article published in Polish American Studies in 2006.
  • 2004: Mieczysław Haiman Polish American Historical Association for all the merits for the research of the Polish ethnic group in the USA
  • 2003: Prize for achievements in research on the Polish diaspora and emigration (for the work of Diaspora Polska/“The Polish Diaspora,” Cracow 2001) of the World Council for Research on the Polish Diaspora
  • 1994: Joseph Swastek Award for the best article published in the Polish American Studies monthly in 1994.
  • 1988: individual Florian Znaniecki Prize for them for the book Polish workers, Work, and Trade Unions
  • 1984: Ministry of National Education, award for the book Reemigration from the United States to Poland, 1919-1924

Honors:

  • 2004: Medal M. Haimana Polish American Historical Association, USA, for outstanding services in American Polonia research
  • 2003: International Prize of the Research Council on the Polish Diaspora for outstanding achievements in research on the Polish diaspora
  • 2000: Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland

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