THE SWASTEK PRIZE, GRADUATE STUDENT, DISTINGUISHED SERVICE, AND OTHER AWARDS
1. THE SWASTEK PRIZE
The Swastek Prize is awarded annually for the best article published in a given volume of Polish American Studies, the journal of the Polish American Historical Association. This award, established in 1981, is named in honor of Rev. Joseph V. Swastek (1913-1977), the editor of Polish American Studies for many years, and a past president of the Polish American Historical Association.
2019: Prof. Stephen Leahy
The 2019 Swaster Prize was presented to Stephen M. Leahy for his article “George Wallace and the Myth of the White Ethnic Backlash in Milwaukee, 1958-1964” (PAS 75, no. 2, Autumn 2018).
While the PAS Editorial Board members valued all of the contributions to volume 75, Stephen M. Leahy’s article “George Wallace and the Myth of the White Ethnic Backlash in Milwaukee, 1958-1964” (PAS 75, no. 2, Autumn 2018) has been selected for the Swastek Award for the best article in the 2018 volume of Polish American Studies. Leahy's article is a timely and careful analysis of the heated political atmosphere during the Civil Rights era. Leahy effectively questions the sweeping thesis that working-class Polish Americans were particularly receptive to Wallace's racist message in Milwaukee, WI. Leahy’s article is a fine example of meticulous research, which challenges a long-established opinion by cross-checking and triangulating a variety of sources. It offers a compelling political microhistory and it should have an impact on the historiography of race relations in twentieth-century America.
2018: Prof. Neal Pease
2017: Dr. Marta Cieslak
For the Swastek Prize for the best article in volume 73 (2016) of Polish American Studies, the Editorial Board nominated Marta Cieślak's "Crossing the Boundaries of Modernity: The Post-Abolition Journey of Polish Peasants to the United States." As some of the board members noted, this original piece is based on the author's 2014 dissertation and does not only reflect extensive archival research but also a thorough understanding of the social and economic conditions in mid-19th century Poland, of the transatlantic migration, and the social and economic situation of emancipated slaves in the postbellum South. Cieślak's argument is original and compelling, and constitutes a historiographically significant project.
2016: Prof. Paweł Ziętara of Warsaw, Poland, “Troubles with ‘Mela’: A Polish American Reporter, the Secret Services of People’s Poland, and the FBI” (Polish American Studies, Vol. 72, No 1, Spring 2015). Prof. Ziętara’s article assembles massive, painstaking research and presents a portrait of communist activity in the USA in the postwar period that is not well known. It brings to light a subject both significant and fascinating, and is based almost entirely on original archival sources.
2015: Lori A. Matten for "Scouting for Identity: Recruiting Daughters to Save the Traditional Polish Family During the Interwar Years" (PAS 71/1, Spring 2014). The author presents sound exploration of the history and formation of Polish American organizations conceptualized by questions of gender and ethnicity. She skillfully examines understudied processes of identity transformations and assimilation of the second generation in the interwar period, as observed through the lens of gender distinctions present in the Polish scouting organizations in the United States.
2014: Leon Kurdek “The Real-Life Story Behind ‘Call Northside 777’: The Crime, the Conviction, and the Search for Justice” Polish American Studies, Vol. 70, no. 2 (Autumn 2013): 5-78.
“The subject matter is particularly important given the prominence of the Hollywood movie, its influence on how Polish Americans are viewed, and the many Polish American aspects that were left out of the film. The editors consider it a meticulously researched reconstruction of a story with compelling human interest which also deals with the interplay of life with art and Hollywood’s depiction of Polish Americans. A very detailed piece of detective work, it holds the interest of readers from start to finish, is clearly written, and raises a number of very serious and provocative questions about the character of American justice and the consequences of injustice as experienced by a family of poor, working class Polish Americans during the worst times of the Great Depression—a topic that has implications for all disadvantaged peoples. The treatment is objective, with ample evidence provided to support its assertions. The article brought to light an important chapter in Polish American history that had been largely forgotten even within Polonia.”
2013: Anna Mazurkiewicz "'Join, or Die'--The Road to Cooperation Among East European Exiled Political Leaders in the United States, 1949-1954," Vol. 69, No.2 (Autumn 2012). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/poliamerstud.69.2.0005
The 2019 Swaster Prize was presented to Stephen M. Leahy for his article “George Wallace and the Myth of the White Ethnic Backlash in Milwaukee, 1958-1964” (PAS 75, no. 2, Autumn 2018).
While the PAS Editorial Board members valued all of the contributions to volume 75, Stephen M. Leahy’s article “George Wallace and the Myth of the White Ethnic Backlash in Milwaukee, 1958-1964” (PAS 75, no. 2, Autumn 2018) has been selected for the Swastek Award for the best article in the 2018 volume of Polish American Studies. Leahy's article is a timely and careful analysis of the heated political atmosphere during the Civil Rights era. Leahy effectively questions the sweeping thesis that working-class Polish Americans were particularly receptive to Wallace's racist message in Milwaukee, WI. Leahy’s article is a fine example of meticulous research, which challenges a long-established opinion by cross-checking and triangulating a variety of sources. It offers a compelling political microhistory and it should have an impact on the historiography of race relations in twentieth-century America.
2018: Prof. Neal Pease
Prof. Neal Pease
The PAS Editorial Board has decided to award the Swastek Prize to “Mighty Son of Poland: Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish Americans, and Sport in the 20thCentury,” by Prof. Neal Pease, PAS, 74/1 (2017): 7-26. This well-written and well- organized study of professional wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko (Jan Stanislaw Cyganiewicz) makes a persuasive argument based on extensive use of primary resources.
2017: Dr. Marta Cieslak
For the Swastek Prize for the best article in volume 73 (2016) of Polish American Studies, the Editorial Board nominated Marta Cieślak's "Crossing the Boundaries of Modernity: The Post-Abolition Journey of Polish Peasants to the United States." As some of the board members noted, this original piece is based on the author's 2014 dissertation and does not only reflect extensive archival research but also a thorough understanding of the social and economic conditions in mid-19th century Poland, of the transatlantic migration, and the social and economic situation of emancipated slaves in the postbellum South. Cieślak's argument is original and compelling, and constitutes a historiographically significant project.
2016: Prof. Paweł Ziętara of Warsaw, Poland, “Troubles with ‘Mela’: A Polish American Reporter, the Secret Services of People’s Poland, and the FBI” (Polish American Studies, Vol. 72, No 1, Spring 2015). Prof. Ziętara’s article assembles massive, painstaking research and presents a portrait of communist activity in the USA in the postwar period that is not well known. It brings to light a subject both significant and fascinating, and is based almost entirely on original archival sources.
2015: Lori A. Matten for "Scouting for Identity: Recruiting Daughters to Save the Traditional Polish Family During the Interwar Years" (PAS 71/1, Spring 2014). The author presents sound exploration of the history and formation of Polish American organizations conceptualized by questions of gender and ethnicity. She skillfully examines understudied processes of identity transformations and assimilation of the second generation in the interwar period, as observed through the lens of gender distinctions present in the Polish scouting organizations in the United States.
2014: Leon Kurdek “The Real-Life Story Behind ‘Call Northside 777’: The Crime, the Conviction, and the Search for Justice” Polish American Studies, Vol. 70, no. 2 (Autumn 2013): 5-78.
“The subject matter is particularly important given the prominence of the Hollywood movie, its influence on how Polish Americans are viewed, and the many Polish American aspects that were left out of the film. The editors consider it a meticulously researched reconstruction of a story with compelling human interest which also deals with the interplay of life with art and Hollywood’s depiction of Polish Americans. A very detailed piece of detective work, it holds the interest of readers from start to finish, is clearly written, and raises a number of very serious and provocative questions about the character of American justice and the consequences of injustice as experienced by a family of poor, working class Polish Americans during the worst times of the Great Depression—a topic that has implications for all disadvantaged peoples. The treatment is objective, with ample evidence provided to support its assertions. The article brought to light an important chapter in Polish American history that had been largely forgotten even within Polonia.”
2013: Anna Mazurkiewicz "'Join, or Die'--The Road to Cooperation Among East European Exiled Political Leaders in the United States, 1949-1954," Vol. 69, No.2 (Autumn 2012). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/poliamerstud.69.2.0005
2012: Myron Momryk, “Ignacy
Witczak’s Passport, Soviet Espionage, and the Origins of the Cold War in
Canada,”Vol.68, No. 2 (Autumn 2011). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23075179
2011: Robert Szymczak, “Cold War
Crusader: Arthur Bliss Lane and the Private Committee to Investigate the Katyn
Massacre, 1949-1952,” Vol. 6, No. 2 (Autumn 2010). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41162458
2010: Suzanne M.
Zukowski, "From Peasant to Proletarian: Home Ownership in Milwaukee's
Polonia" Vol. 66, No. 2 (Autumn 2009). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25594426
2008: Iwona Drąg Korga, “The Information Policy
of the Polish Government-in-Exile toward the American Public During World War
II” Vol. 64, No. 1 (Spring 2007).
Article
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148761
2007: Maja Trochimczyk, “The Impact of Mazowsze and Sląsk on Polish Folk Dancing in California” Vol. 63, No. 1 (Spring
2006). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148738
2006: Adam Walaszek, “Tomasz Siemiradzki: An
Intellectual in Ethnic Politics,” Vol. 62, No. 2 (Autumn 2005). Article
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148727
2005: Neal Pease, “The Kosciuszko Reds,
1909-1919: Kings of the Milwaukee Sandlots,” Vol. 61, No. 1 (Spring 2004). Article
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148690
2004: Ann Hetzel Gunkel, “The Sacred in the
City: Polonian Street Processions as Countercultural Practice,” Vol. 60, No. 2
(Autumn 2003). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148668
2003: Stanislaus A. Blejwas, “American
Polonia and the School Strike in Września,” Vol. 59, No. 1 (Spring 2002). Article
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148625
2002: Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, "The
Mobilization of American Polonia for the Cause of the Displaced Persons" Vol.
58, No. 1 (Spring 2001). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148599
2001: Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, "The
Polish Post-World War II Diaspora: An Agenda for a New Millenium” Vol. 57, No.
2 (Autumn 2000). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148590
2000: Timothy G. Borden, "The Salvation
of the Poles: Working Class Ethnicity and Americanization Efforts During the
Interwar Period in Toledo, Ohio" Vol. 56, No. 2 (Autumn 1999) Article
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148566
1999: Stanislaus A. Blejwas, "The
Republic of Poland and the Origins of the Polish American Congress" Vol.
55, No. 1 (Spring 1998). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148529
1998: Francis C. Kajencki, "Kościuszko's
Role in the Siege of Ninety-Six" Vol. 54, No. 2 (Autumn 1997). Article
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148519
1997: Celia Berdes and Adam Zych, "The
Quality of Life of Polish Immigrant and Polish American Ethnic Elderly"
Vol. 53, No.1 (Spring 1996). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148481
1996: John Radziłowski, "’The Other Side
of Chicago’: The Poles of Arizona" Vol.
52, No. 2 (Autumn 1995). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148469
1995: Robert D. Ubriaco, Jr., "Bread and
Butter Politics or Foreign Policy Concerns?
Class Versus Ethnicity in the Midwestern Polish American Community During
the 1946 Congressional Elections," Vol. 51, No. 2 (Autumn 1994). Article
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148441
1994: Stanislaus A. Blejwas, "Stanisław
Osada: Immigrant Nationalist," Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring 1993). Article
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148403
1993: Adam Walaszek, "How Could It All
Appear So Rosy?--- Re-emigrants from the United States in Poland,
1919-1924" Vol. 49, No. 2 (Autumn 1992) Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148389
1992: John Radzilowski, "One Community,
One Church, Two Towns: The Poles of Southwestern Minnesota, 1882-1905" Vol.
48, No. 2 (Autumn 1991). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148360
1991: William J. Galush, "Purity and
Power: Chicago Polonian Feminists, 1880-1914," Vol. 47, No. 1 (Spring
1990) Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148315
1990: Marcin Kula, "Those Who Failed to
Reach the United States: Polish Proletarians in Cuba During The Interwar
Period," Vol. 46, No. 1 (Spring 1989) Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148280
1989: Mary E. Cygan, "A ‘New Art’ for
Polonia: Polish American Radio Comedy During the 1930s," Vol. 45, No. 2
(Autumn 1988). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148258
1988: Anthony J. Kuzniewski, "’Jesteśmy
Polakami': Wenceslaus Kruszka and the Value of America's Polish Heritage" Vol. 44, No. 2 (Autumn
1987). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148240
1987: David G. Januszewski, "The Case of
the Polish Exile Government in the American Press, 1939-1945" Vol. 43, No.
1 (Spring 1986). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148190
1986: Stanislaus A. Blejwas, "Puritans
and Poles: The New England Literary Image of the Polish Peasant Immigrant"
Vol. 42, No. 2 (Autumn 1985). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148179
1985: John J. Bukowczyk, "Polish Rural
Culture and Immigrant Working Class Formation, 1880-1914" Vol. 41, No. 2
(Autumn 1984) Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148154
1984: Stanley L. Cuba, "Reverend Anthony
Klawiter: Polish Roman and National Catholic Builder-Priest" Vol. 40, No.
2 (Autumn 1983). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148133
1982: Stanislaus A. Blejwas, "Old and
New Polonias: Tensions Within an Ethnic Community" Vol. 38, No. 2 (Autumn
1981). Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148080
1981: Daniel S. Buczek, “Ethnic to American:
Holy Name of Jesus Parish, Stamford, Connecticut” Vol. 37, No. 2 (Autumn 1980).
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20148049
2. JAMES S. PULA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD The Distinguished Service Award is “given occasionally to a member of PAHA who has rendered valuable and sustained service to the organization.” The Award was renamed in 2017 to honor Prof. James S. Pula, a long-time editor of the Polish American Studies, PAHA's past president, current treasurer, awards recipient, and the editor of two PAHA flagship publications, the critically acclaimed Polish American Encyclopedia (McFarland, 2011) and PAHA: The 75th Anniversary of the Polish American Historical Association (PAHA, 2017).
Prof. James S. Pula, January 2019
Dr. Iwona Korga, Executive Director of the Pilsudski Institute was nominated by several individuals and an excerpt from one nomination reads as follows: "For years she has been promoting Polish history and culture though both research and public programming as Executive Director of the Piłsudski Institute and more recently as a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union." Dr Ewa Hoffman Jędruch, who is a Board Member of the Pilsudski Institute recieved the award on behalf of Dr. Korga.
2018: Prof. Dorota Praszalowicz, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
The 2018 Award was presented to Prof. Dorota Praszalowicz of Jagiellonian University in Poland, who has been contributing to the success of PAHA for a long time, including her role in securing Polish grants for PAHA’s 75th Anniversary Conference. The series of conferences titled American Ethnicity that she organizes every two years offers an outstanding opportunity for PAHA members to present their work, advance their expertise and knowledge, and connect with distinguished European scholars.
Dr. Kozaczka with PAHA President, Dr. Anna Mazurkiewicz
2017: Prof. Grazyna Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
Professor of English at Cazenovia College in New York state, Dr. Kozaczka is a long-time PAHA Board Member, PAHA President in 2015-2016 and a faculty member at Cazenovia College since 1984. She currently directs the college-wide Honors Program and took a leadership role in securing trademarks for PAHA's logo and name, organizing many PAHA conferences, and representing the organization at international events, especially in Poland. Dr. Kozaczka's research interests include ethnic American literature, women's literature, literature of the Holocaust as well as traditional Polish folk dress and adornment. She has published scholarly essays, short fiction and popular articles in both English and Polish. She is currently working on a monograph devoted to the representation of immigrant and ethnic women in Polish American literature after World War II.
2016 - Dr. Stephen Leahy, Co-Founder and Moderator, PAHA's Facebook Group
Dr. Stephen Leahy of Shantou University, China, received the Distinguished Service Award, given occasionally to a member of PAHA who has rendered valuable and sustained service to the organization. Dr. Leahy’s crucial role as the co-founder and moderator of PAHA’s Facebook group is just one of his many achievements as a long-time PAHA Board member, dedicated to the promotion of the association and its research interests world-wide.
2015 - Dr. Pien Versteegh, PAHA Executive Director
The 2015 Award was presented to Dr. Pien Versteegh. Her role as executive director of PAHA since 2007 years has been vital to the smooth and successful operation of the organization and its annual meetings. As Dean of the Avans School of International Studies at the Avans University of Applied Sciences in Breda, Netherlands she directs two bachelor programs: International Business and Management Studies (IBMS) and International Financial Management (IFM). Her own scholarly interests focus on Migration/ and Ethnicity and her contributions as a scholar and as a PAHA officer are a model of service and scholarship to the academic community.
2014 - Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, Editor, PAHA Newsletter and Online Communications Director
Dr. Trochimczyk joined the PAHA Board as Editor of PAHA Newsletter in 2009 and has redesigned and expanded the newsletter to include a variety of short articles about the Polish American experience, including features on personal immigration histories, Polonia organizations, anniversary celebrations, new or forthcoming books, and other items of interest to the organization. The newsletter is illustrated and well designed. In 2012, in order to provide a more efficient and faster communications resource to the organization, Dr. Trochimczyk created a blog called PAHANews.blogspot.com, which to date has 38 posts that include information about PAHA awards, program deadlines, and reprints of selected general interest stories from the PAHA Newsletter. The blog has had over 13,700 views and has become an important venue for publicizing the activities of the organization. She has also contributed to the expansion of the PAHA Facebook page and is one of its co-facilitators, making frequent posts and comments. The Facebook page has over 1950 readers. In 2014, Dr. Trochimczyk redesigned PAHA's print publicity materials (a trifold flyer and a postcard) that used artwork by Julian Stanczak, PAHA's Creative Arts Prize winner.
2013 - Dr. Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann
She is PAHA’s former President (2007-2009), and first Vice President (2004-2007), a former member of Awards Committee, Associate Editor of the Polish American Encyclopedia (ed. by James Pula), serves on the editorial board of Polish American Studies. Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann teaches at the Eastern Connecticut State University, continuously rendering excellent service to PAHA; PAHA board member for many years she’s been instrumental in developing new strategies, alert in PAHA’s PR activities. Recipient of many prestigious awards –Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann has devoted her time and her skill to the organization caring for the study and promotion of the Polish-American history and culture with visible, positive results.
Dr. Thaddeus Gromada joined PIASA in 1961, holding posts such as Secretary General, Vice-President, and Executive Director. He also served as a Professor of European History at New Jersey City University. While he edited and contributed books dealing with Polish history, Gromada and PIASA constantly supported the many activities of PAHA.
2011 - Cheryl Pula
Pula read the entire manuscript of The Polish American Encyclopedia twice - once in draft form and once in page proofs. The first time she listed 71 pages, single-spaced, or errors, missing information, or unclear statements. The second time she noted over two dozen pages of corrections of the page proofs. In addition, she also authored approximately 15 to 20 individual entries.
2010 - Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
The Jagiellonian University has a long history of supporting foreign exchange programs with American Universities. UJ received the honor also for the institution's recent hosting of PAHA's mid‐year meeting and conference in the summer of 2010.
2009 - No Award Given
2008 - Thomas Duszak
Mr Duszak was nominated for this award for his extensive efforts in working to ensure that PAHA’s journal - Polish American Studies is incorporated into online databases such as EBSCO and J-STOR. Mr. Duszak’s devotion and persistence to the project has been exemplary and has proved instrumental at all levels relating to the digitization project. Though Mr. Duszak’s work, PAHA has been able to substantially raise its academic profile, and the journal is now available to a global audience.
Mr Duszak was nominated for this award for his extensive efforts in working to ensure that PAHA’s journal - Polish American Studies is incorporated into online databases such as EBSCO and J-STOR. Mr. Duszak’s devotion and persistence to the project has been exemplary and has proved instrumental at all levels relating to the digitization project. Though Mr. Duszak’s work, PAHA has been able to substantially raise its academic profile, and the journal is now available to a global audience.
2007 - Dr. Mary Patrice Erdmans
Dr. Erdmans has held several important posts within PAHA, including most recently serving as President from 2003-2006. During her tenure, Dr. Erdmans guided PAHA through a successful reorganization that has now placed the Association on a firm financial footing with an expanding program of scholarly activities and membership base.
Dr. Erdmans has held several important posts within PAHA, including most recently serving as President from 2003-2006. During her tenure, Dr. Erdmans guided PAHA through a successful reorganization that has now placed the Association on a firm financial footing with an expanding program of scholarly activities and membership base.
2006 – Joseph Wieczerzak and Theodore Zawistowski
Joseph Wieczerzak is Professor Emeritus of History, Bronx College, CUNY. He has served two terms as PAHA president, is a past recipient of the organization’s Haiman Award, and is a current member of the PAHA Board. He is now editor of The Polish Review.
Theodore Zawistowski has taught college courses in the fields of Sociology and Psychology, and has served as a consultant on history and archives to the Commission of the Polish National Catholic Church. He has edited PNCC Studies, The Polish Review, and the PAHA Newsletter. In addition, he has contributed greatly to the annual PNCC conferences.
2005 - Dr. Mark Kulikowski
Mark Kulikowski is Associate Professor of History at State University of New York-Oswego, with expertise in modern Russian and U.S. diplomatic history. Among other works, he has written the well-known Bibliography of Slavic Mythology (1989). Professor Kulikowski has been a longtime member of the editorial board of Polish American Studies, as well as a frequent contributor.
2004 - No Award Given
Mark Kulikowski is Associate Professor of History at State University of New York-Oswego, with expertise in modern Russian and U.S. diplomatic history. Among other works, he has written the well-known Bibliography of Slavic Mythology (1989). Professor Kulikowski has been a longtime member of the editorial board of Polish American Studies, as well as a frequent contributor.
2004 - No Award Given
2003 - Dr. Tom Napierkowski
Dr. Napierkowski is a professor of English at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His area of specialization is medieval English literature, with particular emphasis on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and the fifteenth century. Tom has also worked and published in the fields of Slavic literature and Eastern and Central European Culture and Politics. Dr. Napierkowski has served as PAHA president twice, which required that he organize two national conferences. He has been a board member for numerous years, helped to recruit the Kulczycki monies ($20,000+) for what is now the Kulczycki scholarship. In addition, Tom has also helped to broaden the scope of PAHA by including Polish-American literature as a key tool to understanding the Polish migrant experience in America.
Dr. Napierkowski is a professor of English at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His area of specialization is medieval English literature, with particular emphasis on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and the fifteenth century. Tom has also worked and published in the fields of Slavic literature and Eastern and Central European Culture and Politics. Dr. Napierkowski has served as PAHA president twice, which required that he organize two national conferences. He has been a board member for numerous years, helped to recruit the Kulczycki monies ($20,000+) for what is now the Kulczycki scholarship. In addition, Tom has also helped to broaden the scope of PAHA by including Polish-American literature as a key tool to understanding the Polish migrant experience in America.
2002 - Dr. Karen Majewski
Dr. Majewski has served as PAHA Executive Director for many years, and has published many important books and studies on the history of American Polonia and its literature.
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARDS PRIOR TO 2001
2001: John J. Bukowczyk
2000 - Thaddeus V. Gromada
1999 - James S. Pula
1998 - Stanislaus Blejwas
1997 - The Skalny Family
1996 - Bolesław Wierzbiański
1995 - Rev. Senior Casimir Grotnik
1994 - No Award Given
1994 - No Award Given
1993 - Msgr. John P. Wodarski
1992 - Frank Harasick
1991 - Walter Lasinski
1988 - Henry Archacki
1987 - Sister Clarent Marie Urbanowicz
1986 - Sister Ellen Marie Kuznicki, CSSF, and Mieczysław Haiman (posthumously)
3. GRADUATE STUDENT/YOUNG SCHOLAR TRAVEL GRANT
In January 2016, during the 73rd Annual Board Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, the PAHA Officers and Council decided to replace the Graduate Student Research Paper Award with a more broadly defined Graduate Student/Young Scholar Travel Grant that was awarded for the first time at the 74th Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado in January 2017.
2019: Oleksandr AVRAMCHUK and Dr. Piotr PUCHALSKI
OLEKSANDR AVRAMCHUK is a Ph.D. student at the University of Warsaw. He is currently writing a doctoral dissertation on the vision of Ukraine in Polish émigré historical thought in the United States during the Cold War. The scope of his academic interests ranges from Polish-Ukrainian relations to modern nation-building processes in Central and Eastern Europe. He is an author of several scholarly articles and essays on Polish, Ukrainian and Russian historical thought in the 20 th century, as well as the American attitudes toward Eastern Europe.
DR. PIOTR PUCHALSKI of the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time of award. Dr. Piotr Puchalski was born in Warsaw, Poland and moved to New York City at the age of thirteen. He attended high school in Brooklyn and earned Bachelor’s degrees in European Studies and French from New York University. When Piotr applied for this award, he was still a Ph.D. candidate in modern European history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since then, not only did he defend his doctoral dissertation but also accepted the position of assistant professor of history at the Institute of History and Archival Studies of the Pedagogical University of Cracow, where he currently lives.
2019: Oleksandr AVRAMCHUK and Dr. Piotr PUCHALSKI
OLEKSANDR AVRAMCHUK is a Ph.D. student at the University of Warsaw. He is currently writing a doctoral dissertation on the vision of Ukraine in Polish émigré historical thought in the United States during the Cold War. The scope of his academic interests ranges from Polish-Ukrainian relations to modern nation-building processes in Central and Eastern Europe. He is an author of several scholarly articles and essays on Polish, Ukrainian and Russian historical thought in the 20 th century, as well as the American attitudes toward Eastern Europe.
Dr. Puchalski and Mr. Avramchuk with their Grant Certificates.
DR. PIOTR PUCHALSKI of the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time of award. Dr. Piotr Puchalski was born in Warsaw, Poland and moved to New York City at the age of thirteen. He attended high school in Brooklyn and earned Bachelor’s degrees in European Studies and French from New York University. When Piotr applied for this award, he was still a Ph.D. candidate in modern European history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since then, not only did he defend his doctoral dissertation but also accepted the position of assistant professor of history at the Institute of History and Archival Studies of the Pedagogical University of Cracow, where he currently lives.
Florence Vychytil-Baudoux and Weronika Grzebalska in Chicago
Aleksandra Kurowska-Susdorf with President Kozaczka
2017: 2) Sarah "Moxy" Moczygeba, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Florida.
4. GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER AWARD
Established in 2008, the Graduate Student Research Paper Award recognizes outstanding research into Polish-American history and culture by a young scholar in the humanities or social sciences. The winner received a travel grant to present the paper at the PAHA Annual Meeting and is encouraged to submit the work for consideration by the Polish American Studies (the publication is not guaranteed and the decision is made by the PAS Editor). To 2017 this Award was called the Graduate Student Research Paper Award and then it was replaced by the Travel Grant.
2016: Joanna Kulpińska, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
Ms. Kulpinska was honored for her paper “Multigenerational Migration Chains of Families from Babica: An Attempt at Typology.”
2014 - Rachel Rothstein (Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Florida, Gainesville), “Defending the Remnants: American Jews Respond to Poland’s 1968 Anti-Zionist Campaign”
2013 – Two Awards Given
1: Marta Cieślak (Transnational Studies Department, SUNY at Buffalo), "Crossing the Boundaries of Modernity: The Transatlantic Journey of Polish Peasants to the United States"
2: Piotr Derengowski (Department of History, University of Gdansk, Poland), "Capt. Alexander Raszewski's Polish Legion and Other Less Known Polish Troops in the Union Army During the American Civil War"
2008
Michael T. Urbanski. In
2008, PAHA recognized Michael Urbanski (Central Connecticut State University)
for the paper entitled: "Polite Avoidance: The Story of the Closing of
Alliance College," which was subsequently published in the Polish American
Studies, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Spring, 2009), pp. 25-42. This paper focuses on the
history and controversial closing of the Polish National Alliance’s College in
Cambridge Springs Pennsylvania.Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20533157
5. OTHER HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
In addition to the various awards, the Polish American Historical Association has also recognized its supporters and eminent members by bestowing Honorary Memberships and Certificates, as follows.
HONORARY MEMBERSHIP
2013: Honorary PAHA membership was conferred upon Victor Greene.
Victor R. Greene, is a historian and educator, born Nov. 15, 1933, Newark (NJ), U.S.; a graduate of Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts, 1955) University of Rochester (Master of Arts, 1960) he received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1963. He served as a professor at Kansas State University, 1963-71, and the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, since 1971 -. His books include: Slavic Community on Strike, 1968; For God and Country, 1975; Immigrant Leaders, 1987; and A Passion for Polka, 1992. His doctoral dissertation was recognized by an award from the Kosciuszko Foundation, 1965; he held a Fulbright scholarship to Germany, 1980-81, and another Fulbright scholarship to the United Kingdom, 1990-91. His research awards and grants include two National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) fellowships, in 1977, 1987.
CERTIFICATES OF ACHIEVEMENT
1988: Aniela Skalny
Anna Skalny
Ben Skalny
John Skalny
Joseph Skalny
Eugene Dziedzic
Michael Dziedzic
1991: Anthony Podbielski
John and Stefanie Stenclik
Stanislaus Blejwas
Thaddeus Gromada
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