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JOHN RADZILOWSKI UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST KETCHIKAN AK, 99901 U.S.A. TEL.: (907) 228-4541; EMAIL: [email protected] EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy degree in History, Arizona State University, May 1999. Fields in Russia/East Europe, Modern U.S., Public History. (Dissertation: “Hidden Cosmos: The Life Worlds of Polish Immigrants in Two Minnesota Communities, 1875–1925.”) Certificate in Scholarly Publishing, Public History Program, Arizona State University, December 1994. Certificate from Heritage of the Prairie NEH Teacher Institute, Marshall, Minnesota, 1990. Bachelor of Arts degree in History, Southwest State University, Marshall, Minnesota, 1990. TEACHING 2019–present Professor (tenured): University of Alaska Southeast. Department of Social Science. Teaches European, U.S., World History; Geography; Art History. 2014–2019 Associate Professor (tenured): University of Alaska Southeast. Department of Social Science. 2007–14 Assistant Professor (tenure track): University of Alaska Southeast. Department of Social Science. 2007–16 Adjunct Faculty: American Public University (AMU), Charles Town, W.V. Taught European, U.S., medieval history and historic preservation. 2007 Adjunct Faculty: Hamline University, St. Paul. Taught U.S. History. 2006–07 Adjunct Professor: Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids. Taught U.S. History, Vietnam War. 2005–07 Adjunct Faculty: University of St. Thomas, St. Paul. Taught U.S. History. 2005–07 Adjunct Faculty: University of Phoenix, Minneapolis-St. Paul. Geography. 2004–10 Adjunct Professor (online): DeVry University, Chicago, Ill. Taught 20th Century History and History/Sociology of Technology. 1998 Instructor: University of Minnesota, Compleat and Practical Scholar Program. Taught Immigrant History. 1997–99 Instructor: Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota. Taught Polish and Polish-American history and culture. 1996 Workshop Presenter and Designer: “Assimilation and Resettlement in Minnesota,” Government Training Services, Futurama Conference, St. Louis Park, Mn., 23 May 1996. 1991 Teaching Assistant: Prof. Gerald Kleinfeld, Department of History, Arizona State University, for German history courses & German Studies Review. 1 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2018 Fulbright Lecturer: U.S. Embassy, Warsaw, Poland, Cultural Affairs Section, Feb. 2018. Gave a series of public lectures to commemorate the centennial of U.S.–Polish diplomatic relations. 2018–present Editor: Leopolis Press, Washington, D.C. 2011–19 Museum Guide/Senior Museum Guide: Totem Heritage Center, Ketchikan AK. Guide for Native American cultural and historical site. 2013–14 Consultant: College Board (Educational Testing Service), question writer, AP U.S. History exam. 2011 Consultant: Saylor Foundation, online course design and content for MOOCs. 2009–10 Consultant: College Board (Educational Testing Service), redesign of Praxis II (teacher certification) exam in World and U.S. History. 2008–14 General Editor: Encyclopedia of American Immigration, 2nd edition (New York: M.E. Sharpe/Cengage). 2008–10 Contributing Editor: Polish American Encyclopedia (Jefferson NC: McFarland). 2008–18 Exam Reader: AP U.S. History Examinations, Educational Testing Service, Louisville, Ky., June 2008–16; Tampa, Fl., June 2017–18. 2006 Curriculum Developer: “Genocide in Poland: An Information Guide for High School Curricula in the State of California,” with T. C. Radzilowski. 2001–2005 Assistant Program Director/Program Associate: Center for Nations in Transition, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. 2002 Regional Studies Fellow: Center for Rural and Regional Studies, Southwest State University, Marshall. 2000–2001 Technical Editor: American Phytopathological Society (for journals Plant Disease and Phytopathology), Eagan, Mn. 1998–2000 Executive Assistant: St. Paul Rehabilitation Center, St. Paul, Mn. 1997–2003 Associate Editor: Periphery: Journal of Polish Affairs, Orchard Lake, Mich. 1994–95 Assistant Editor (temporary): Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1995. 1994 Editorial Intern: Minnesota Historical Society Press. 1992–94 Editorial Assistant: The Historian (quarterly journal of Phi Alpha Theta history society). 1990–91 Staff Writer: Redwood Gazette, (Biweekly paper) Redwood Falls, Minnesota. 1989–93 Paraprofessional: Southwest State University, Center for Regional Studies. 1988 Research Assistant (intern): Mr. Hugh J. Dykes, MP, Harrow East, London Parliamentary Internship, Catholic University of America. PUBLICATIONS 1. Books 2020 Poles in Illinois, co-authored with Ann Gunkel. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press). 2017 Frantic 7: The American Effort to Aid the Warsaw Uprising and the Origins of the Cold War, co-authored with Jerzy Szcześniak. (Philadelphia & Oxford: Casemate). 2 2007 Travellers History of Poland (Gloucester, U.K.: Arris Books & Boston: Interlink); second U.S. edition, 2012). 2007 Ukrainians in North America (Philadelphia: Chelsea House/Facts on File). 2006 Minnesota. On the Road History Series. (Boston: Interlink). 2005 Poles in Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press). 2003 The Eagle and the Cross: A History of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America, 1873–2000 (New York: Columbia University Press/East European Monographs). 2002 Polish Immigrants, 1890–1920 with Rosemary Wallner. Coming to America Series. (Mankato, Minn.: Blue Earth Books). 1999 Community of Strangers: Change, Turnover, Turbulence and the Transformation of a Midwestern Country Town co-authored with Joseph Amato (Marshall: Crossings Press). 1997 Prairie Town: A History of Marshall, Minnesota, 1872–1997 (Marshall: Lyon County Historical Society). 1996 To Call It Home: The New Immigrants of Southwestern Minnesota, co-authored with Joseph Amato, et al. (Marshall: Crossings Press). 1995 Bells Over the Prairie: 125 Years of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, New Ulm, Minnesota (New Ulm: Cathedral Parish). 1992/95 Out on the Wind: Poles and Danes in Lincoln County, Minnesota, 1880–1905 (Marshall, Minn.: Crossings Press, 2d edition 1995). 2. Books and Reference Works Edited and Co-Authored 2014 American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change, 2d rev. ed., editor w/James Ciment (New York: Cengage). 2003 Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: The Borderlands of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited with M. J. Chodakiewicz (New York and Charlottesville: Leopolis Press). 2003 Poland’s Transformation: A Work in Progress, edited with M. J. Chodakiewicz and D. Tołczyk (Charlottesville: Leopolis Press and the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia). 1997 Follow Me: The Memoirs of a Polish Priest, Msgr. Stanisław Grabowski (Roseville, Mn.: White Rose). 3. Journal Articles, Book Chapters 2018 “The Communist Party of the United States of America since 1919,” Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość: pismo naukowe poświęcone historii najnowszej [Warsaw], 2 (32) (2018): 15–26. 2017 “Out from the Inside: The Role of Identity in Research,” Polish American Studies 74, no. 2 (Autumn 2017): 28–32. 2016 “Thieves Stealing from Thieves, Victims from Victims: The Culture, Morality, and Politics of Stolen Art in Twentieth Century Poland,” Polish Review 61, no. 4 (2016): 3–17. 2015 “Marvin Schwan,” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present (Washington: German Historical Institute) online at http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=243 3 2011 “Dyskurs neostalinowski w polskich studiach historycznych w Stanach Zjednoczonych” [The Neo-Stalinist Discourse in Polish Historical Studies in the United States], in Marek Jan Chodakiewicz and Wojciech Jerzy Muszyński, eds., Złote serca czy złote żniwa. Studia nad wojennymi losami Polaków i Żydów (Warsaw: The Facto, 2011). 2010 “O polskich studiach historycznych w Stanach Zjedonoczonych” [Polish Historical Studies in the United States], Glaukopis: Pismo Społeczno-historyczne, no. 19–20 (2010): 278–85. 2009 “Remembrance and Recovery: The Museum of the Warsaw Rising and the Memory of World War II in Post-Communist Poland,” The Public Historian 31, no. 4 (2009), 143–58. 2009 “A Social History of Polish-American Catholicism,” U.S. Catholic Historian 27, no. 3 (Summer 2009), 21–43. 2009 “Born a Gypsy: Secondary Migration and Spatial Change among Polish Immigrants, 1880–1925,” Polish American Studies 66, no. 2 (Autumn 2009). 2009 “Ethnic Anti-Communism in the United States,” in Anti-Communist Minorities in the U.S.: The Political Activism of Ethnic Refugees, Ieva Zake, ed. (New York: Palgrave/Macmillian). 2009 “Immigration and Ethnicity across the History Curriculum,” Journal of American Ethnic History 28, no. 2 (Winter 2009): 82–86. 2008 “Crime, Delinquency, and Reform in Polish Chicago, 1890s–1940s,” Fiedorczyk Lecture Series, Central Connecticut State University, 2002 (published 2008). 2007 “A History of Minnesota Politics,” in Perspectives on Minnesota Government and Politics, 6th ed. New York: Pearson. 2007 “Fecund Newcomers or Dying Ethnics? Demographic Approaches to the History of Italian and Polish Immigrants and their Children in the United States, 1880 to 1980,” Journal of American Ethnic History 27, no. 1 (Fall 2007): 60–74. 2007 “Conflict between Poles and Jews in Chicago, 1900–1930,” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 19 (2007): 117–133. 2006 “Wojciechowo: Polish Immigrants in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1875–1925,” Polish American Studies 63, no. 2 (Autumn 2006): 23–57. 2006 “Miracle: American Polonia, Karol Wojtyła, and the Election of Pope John Paul II,” Polish American
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