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JOHN RADZILOWSKI UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHEAST KETCHIKAN AK, 99901 U.S.A. TEL.: (907) 228-4541; EMAIL: [email protected]

EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy degree in , State University, May 1999. Fields in /East Europe, Modern U.S., Public History. (Dissertation: “Hidden Cosmos: The Life Worlds of Polish Immigrants in Two 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, -St. Paul. Geography. 2004–10 Adjunct Professor (online): DeVry University, , 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 . 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.

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2018 Fulbright Lecturer: U.S. Embassy, , , 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, , 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 (: 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 ,” 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 (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 in , 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. ( & Oxford: Casemate).

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2007 Travellers (Gloucester, U.K.: Arris Books & : Interlink); second U.S. edition, 2012). 2007 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: 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 , 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 ). 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 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 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

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2011 “Dyskurs neostalinowski w polskich studiach historycznych w Stanach Zjednoczonych” [The Neo-Stalinist Discourse in Polish Historical Studies in the United States], in 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 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 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 Studies 63, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 79–87. 2006 “Foreword: Jewish Life in Poland,” in Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano (Ithaca: Cornell University Press). 2005 “Last Casualties of the Cold War: , Identity and Politics among Polish and other East Central European ,” Glaukopis [Warsaw] no. 2/3 (2005): 278–87. 2003 “Ejszyszki i ich sąsiedzi,” in Kulisy Zajść w Ejszyszkach: Epilog stosunków polsko-żydowskich na Kresach, 1944–45 (Warsaw: Fronda), 2:208–26. 2002 “In American Eyes: Views of Polish Peasants in Europe and the United States, 1890s–1930s,” Polish Review 47, no. 4 (2002): 393–406. 2002 “A New Poland in the Old Northwest: Polish Farming Colonies on the Northern Great Plains,” Polish American Studies 59, no. 2 (Autumn 2002): 79–96. 2002 “Освіта для эмін: Реформа менеджмент-та бізнес-освіти у џентралъній та східній європі, 1989–2001” (Educating for Change: Business and Management

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Education Reform in Central and , 1989–2001), in Poэбудова мeнджмент-освіти в Україні (Building Management Education in ) Kyiv: Business Management Education in Ukraine/USAID. 2002 “Ejszyszki Revisited, 1939–45,” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 15 (2002): 453– 68. 2002 “Out on the Wind: Life in Minnesota’s Polish Farming Communities,” Minnesota History 58, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 16–28. 2001 “Fr. Wincenty Barzyński and a Polish-Catholic Response to Industrial Capitalism,” Polish American Studies 58, no. 2 (Autumn 2001): 23–32. 2001 “Polonia in World War II: Toward a Social History,” Polish American Studies 58, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 63–80. (Reprinted in Naród Polski, September 6, 2001.) 2001 “Polska Diaspora w Stanach Zjednoczonych, 1989–2000,” in Polska Diaspora, ed. Adam Walaszak. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2001. Pp. 112–17. 2000 “Ethnicity and Settlement in Southwestern Minnesota,” in Southwestern Minnesota: The Land and the People. Marshall: Crossings Press, 69–73. 1999 “Yaffa Eliach’s Big Book of Revisionism,” Journal of Genocide Studies 1, no. 2 (1999): 273–80. 1995 “‘The Other Side of Chicago’: The Poles of Arizona,” Polish American Studies 52, no. 2 (Autumn 1995): 5–20. 1995 “Teaching Local History in the Classroom: An Essay for Teacher-Historians,” in Heritage of the Prairie: Teaching the History and Culture of the Rural World (Marshall: Southwest State Univ. & National Endowment for the Humanities). 1994 “Family Labor and Immigrant Success in a Polish-American Rural Community,” Polish American Studies 51, no. 2 (Autumn 1994): 49–66. 1994 “‘The Land Is Ours’: The Peasant Movement in East-,” Iota Gamma Journal of History (Tempe, Ariz.) 4 (Spring 1994): 91–106. 1993 “Remembering the Warsaw Uprising at the U.S. Holocaust Museum,” The Historian 55, no. 4 (Summer 1993): 635–40. 1991 “One Church, One Community, Two Towns: The Poles of Southwest Minnesota, 1882–1905,” Polish American Studies 48, no. 2 (Autumn 1991): 5–25; reprinted as a booklet for Southwest State University’s Essays in Rural Life series, 1992. 1991 “The Students Make Themselves at Home,” in A New College on the Prairie: The First Twenty-Five Years of Southwest State University, by Joseph A. Amato. (Marshall, Minn.: Crossings Press).

3. Review Essays 2021 “Remember September” [new work on the German invasion of Poland, 1939], Polish Review, forthcoming. 2021 “Recent Work on Soviet Repression in Central Asia and Siberia,” Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość: pismo naukowe poświęcone historii najnowszej [Warsaw], forthcoming. 2019 “World War II Deportations in Alaska,” Journal of American Ethnic History 39, no. 1 (Fall 2019): 98–103. 1999 “East European Memories from the Northern Great Plains: A Review Essay,” Polish American Studies 56, no. 2 (Autumn 1999): 69–75.

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4. Encyclopedia Articles 2015 “Alaska,” Encyclopedia of Contemporary Immigration (New York: ABC-Clio), 19–38. 2014 Articles on African-American migration, Immigration in the EU, Human Trafficking, the Department of Homeland Security and others, American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change, 2d rev. ed. (New York: M.E. Sharpe). 2012 Articles on Rural Life and Birth Control in The Twenties in America (Boston, Mass.: Salem Press). 2012 “Barney Hajiro,” in Great Lives from History: Asian and Pacific Islander Americans (Boston, Mass.: Salem Press). 2012 Articles on Alaska and Central and East in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1:24–26 and 139–41. 2011 “Freight Transportation Industry,” Survey of American Careers and Industries (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press), 742ff. 2011 Articles on Roman Catholicism, PRCUA, Agriculture, Crime, etc., in The Polish American Encyclopedia (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland). 2010 Articles on the Yalta Accords and Francis Cardinal Spellman, in The Forties in America (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press). 2010 “Roma (Gypsies),” New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2010. (: Gale), 2:956–58. 2010 Articles on Immigration from Europe and Immigrants from the Former in Encyclopedia of American Immigration (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press). 2009 Article on the play “The Deputy” by Rolf Hochhuth in Great Events from History: Modern Scandals (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press), 352–55. 2007 Articles on the arrests of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary (1948) and Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński of Poland (1953), and the election of Pope John Paul II (1978) in Great Events from History: The 20th Century (Pasadena: Salem Press). 2006 “Late Nineteenth-Century Europeans, Mexicans, and Asians,” in Encyclopedia of the Midwest (Bloomington: University Press). 2006 “Late Twentieth Century Immigration,” in Encyclopedia of the Midwest (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). 2006 “Poles,” in Encyclopedia of the Midwest (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). 2006 “,” in Encyclopedia of the Midwest (Bloomington: Ind. Univ. Press). 2004 “The Belarusin Community in Belarus,” The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (London: Palgrave/Macmillian), 600–602. 2004 “The Polish Community in ,” The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (London: Palgrave/Macmillian), 594–97. 2004 “The Russian Community in Ukraine,” The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (London: Palgrave/Macmillian), 701–702. 2004 “Poles,” in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (Lincoln: University of Press), 234. 2004 “Lech Wałęsa,” in Makers of Western Culture, 1914–2000: A Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood), 540–41.

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2001 “Polish Wars of Expansion,” Magill’s Guide to Military History (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press), 1217–19. 2001 “Polish-Turkish Wars,” Magill’s Guide to Military History (Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press), 1216–17. 2000 “Eastern Europe,” Encyclopedia of American Immigration (New York: M. E. Sharpe). 2000 Articles on Fryderyk Chopin, Rosa Luxemburg, Taras Shevchenko, and in Makers of Western Culture, 1800–1914: A Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood). 1999 “East Europeans,” co-authored with Thaddeus C. Radzilowski, in A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America’s Multicultural Heritage (Westport: Greenwood), 174–99. 1999 “Agrarian History,” in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn), 1:19–22. 1999 “Norman Davies,” in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn), 1:287–88. 1999 “Simon Dubnov,” in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn), 1:324–25. 1999 “East Central Europe,” in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn), 1:333–34. 1999 “Oskar Halecki,” in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn), 1:507–508. 1999 “Local History,” in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn), 1:731–32. 1999 “Poland: Since the 18th Century,” in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn,), 2:934–38.

5. Other Articles (abbreviated list) 2013 “Putin’s Strategy for Russia,” Strategy and Tactics Magazine, no. 279 (March- April 2013): 71–74. 2011 “Neo-stalinizm w historia,” Nasz Dziennik [Warsaw], 26–27 March 2011, no. 71 (4002). 2009 “Out of the Shadows: Anti-Communist Soldiers Deserve Place in History Books,” Polish American Journal, October 2009, p.1. 2008 “’Strach’ i rewizja polskiej historii” (“Fear” and the Rewriting of Polish History), Rzeczpospolita (Warsaw), March 1, 2008; reprinted in Cena “Strachu”: Gross w Oczach Historyków, Robert Jankowski, ed. (Warsaw: Fronda, 2008), 345–52. 2004 Communication on in World War II, Polish American Studies, 61, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 84–86. 2003 “As a New EU Member, Poland Has Lessons for the World,” co-authored with Zbigniew Bochniarz, Detroit Free Press, Oct. 8, 2003. 2002 “An Overview of the History of Poles in Modern Lithuania,” Nihil Novi, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 29–30. 2000 “Why Celebrate Famous Communist? [Gus Hall],” Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oct. 21, 2000, p.A23.

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1997 “In Defense of the Past, Real or Imagined,” The Forum (Minneapolis) 9, no. 3 (Autumn 1997): 1–2. 1995 “Same Town, Different Name,” American Heritage of Invention & Technology 10, no. 3 (Winter 1995): 20–21. 1993 “Forging a Bleak Future: Things Go from Bad to Worse at a Polish Steel Factory,” In These Times 18, no. 2 (13–26 Dec. 1993): 16–17. 1991/92 “Swords without the Sorcery: Writing about Arcane Arms and Armor,” Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop Newsletter, Dec. 1991–Aug. 1992 (9-part article). 1991 “Wacipi will be Celebration of Dakota Culture,” and “Wacipi kin de Dakota Toun un Iyokipi Iciyapi Kte” Redwood Gazette (Redwood Falls, Minnesota), 12 June 1991. (Bilingual article published in English and Dakota, translated by Rev. Lyle Noisyhawk, Lower Sioux Mdewakanton Community.)

6. Reviews 2021 The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700, I. Livezeau and Á. Von Klimó, eds. Polish Review 66, no. 1 (2021): 148–50. 2021 An American in Warsaw: Selected Writings of Hugh S. Gibson, U.S. Minister to Poland, 1919–1924, Vivian Hux Reed, ed., Polish Review 66, no. 1 (2021): 134– 35. 2020 Head of the Lakes: Selected Short Stories, Anthony Bukoski, Polish American Studies 77, no. 2 (Autumn 2020): 93–95. 2020 Polish Hero Roman Rodziewicz: Fate of a Hubal Soldier in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Postwar England by Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm, Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm; Untold Stories of Polish Heroes from World War II by Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm, Polish Review 65, no. 1 (2020): 116–17. 2019 The Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance, Chris Webb, Polish Review, 64, no. 4 (2019): 96–97. 2019 White Spots, Black Spots: Difficult Matters in Polish Russian Relations, 1918– 2008, A. D. Rotfeld & A. Torkunov, eds., The Historian 80, no. 1 (2019): 174–76. 2019 The Polish Hearst: Ameryka-Echo and the Public Role of the Immigrant Press, Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Journal of American Ethnic History 38, no. 1 (2018): 101–04. 2018 The Soldiers’ Field: The Excavation and Identification of Communist Terror Victims Buried in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw, Karolina Wichowska, Polish Review 63, no. 4 (2018): 113–15. 2018 My Sister’s Mother: A Memoir of War, , and Stalin’s Siberia, Donna Solecka Urbikas, Polish Review 63, no. 2 (2018): 71–73. 2018 London’s Polish Borders: Transnationalizing Class and Ethnicity among Polish Migrants in London, Michał P. Garapich, Polish Review 63, no. 2 (2018): 67–71. 2017 “Oskar Halecki and the Past and Future of East-Central European History.” East/West: A Journal of Ukrainian Studies 4, no. 1 (2017): 205–209. 2016 We Are One Family: Polish Immigration to Sheridan County, , 1890– 1920, Karen Ballek and Leon Washut, Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming History Journal, Winter 2016, 25–26.

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2014 The Borders of Integration: Polish Migrants in and the United States, 1870–1914, Brian McCook, Journal of American Ethnic History 33, no. 3 (Spring 2014): 95–97. 2014 The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War, Halik Kochanski, The Historian 76, no. 4 (Winter 2014): 866–68. 2012 Isadore’s Secret: Sin, Murder and Confession in a Northern Town, Mardi Link, Polish American Studies 69, no. 2 (Autumn 2012): 111–12. 2012 Birch Coulee: Epic Battle of the Dakota War, John Christgau, Journal of the West 51, no. 3 (Summer 2012): 103. 2010 Travel Notes, Stefan Nestorowicz, Polish American Studies 67, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 91–92. 2009 Tolerated but Never Accepted, Don Binkowski, Michigan Historical Review 35, no. 2 (Fall 2009): 110–12. 2009 Herodot Polonii Amerykańskiej: Mieczysław Haiman (1888–1949), Teresa Kaczorowska, Polish Review 54, no. 3 (2009): 371–72. 2008 Choral Patriotism, Stanislaus Blejwas, Polish American Studies 65, no. 2 (Autumn 2008): 85–87. 2008 Polish Pioneers of Pe-Ell, Leo Kowalski, Polish American Studies 65, no. 2 (Autumn 2008): 92. 2006 Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz, Jan Tomasz Gross, Biuletyn IPN (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej), no. 7 (July 2006): 98–102. [In Polish.] 2006 Hamtramck Haunts, Polish American Studies 63, no. 1 (Spring 2006), 92–93. 2005 Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism: and Other New Immigrants in the Interwar Era, June Granatir Alexander, International Migration Review 39, no. 4 (Winter 2005): 970–71. 2004 Wokół Rozgłośni Polskiej Radia Wolna Europa, Władysław Stępniak, Polish American Studies 61, no. 2 (Spring 2004): 91–92. 2004 Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, Karen Majewski, Journal of American Ethnic History 23, no. 2 (Winter 2004): 118–19. 2003 Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940–1945, Gunnar S. Paulsson, review [email protected], 11/12/2003 2:15:48 PM. www.h- net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=252691081495762 2003 Hitler Strikes Poland, Alexander Rossino, Nihil Novi, no. 3, 2003. 2003 History of Poles in America to 1908, Wacław Kruszka, Polish American Studies 59, no. 2 (Autumn 2003): 87–89. 2003 Poles Together: Leo Krzycki and Polish Americans in the Labor Movement, Don Binkowski, Polish American Studies 59, no. 2 (Autumn 2003): 96–97. 2002 Down on the Killing Floor: Black & White Workers in Chicago’s Packing Houses Rick Halpern. Polish American Studies 59, no. 2 (Autumn 2002): 112–15. 2002 Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown review, on H-Ethnic@h- net.msu.edu, [email protected], and [email protected], July 8, 2002. 2001 When Nationalism Began to Hate, Brian Porter, Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Review 15, no. 1 (Fall 2001): 97–99. 2001 Making Minnesota Territory, 1849–1858, A. Kaplan and M. Ziebarth, eds. Journal of the West 40, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 104.

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2001 A Tenderfoot in Border Country: Trapping the Boundary Waters, 1919–1920, Journal of the West 40, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 103–104. 2001 Women of Minnesota: Selected Biographical Essays, rev. ed., B. Stuhler and G. Kreuter, eds. Journal of the West 40, no. 2 (Spring 2001). 1998 General Anders and the Soldiers of the Second Polish Corps, Harvey Sarner. 18, no. 3 (September 1998): 573–74. 1998 Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. Matthew Frye Jacobson. Polish American Studies 55, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 99–101. 1996 “Mapping Human Migration,” review of Gerard Chaliand and Jean-Pierre Rageau, The Penguin Atlas of , on [email protected] (h-net List on Ethnic History), Jan. 16, 1996, 07:17 P.M. EDT. 1996 Blood of Their Blood: An Anthology of Polish-American . Victor Contoski, ed., and Dinner at Chopin’s House: A Collection of Polish-American Writing, John Minczeski, ed., Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic American Literature 1, no. 4 (Summer 1996): 89–90. 1995 Historia Polski w Liczbach—Ludność, Terytorium, Główny Urząd Statystyczny, Polish American Studies 52, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 93–95. 1994 The Newly Independent States of Eurasia: Handbook of the Former Soviet Republics, Stephen K. and Sandra L. Batalden, The Historian 56, no. 2 (Winter 1994): 355–56. 1992 Hugh Gibson and a Controversy over Polish-Jewish Relations after World War I, Andrzej Kapiszewski. Polish American Studies 49, no. 2 (Autumn 1992): 92–94. 1992 Hospital of the Transfiguration, Stanisław Lem. Quantum, Science Fiction and Fantasy Review 41 (Winter/Spring 1992): 30.

7. Electronic Publications (abbreviated list) 2006–21 Articles on World War II history for World War II Database, ww2db.com 2006 “How Soviet-era Documents Can Help us Wage the War against Terrorism,” History News Network, Jan. 25, http://hnn.us/roundup/archives/1/2006/1/#21145 2005 “Dispelling the Myths of Yalta,” History News Network, June 4, http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/11904.html. 2005 “John Paul II and the Revitalization of Western Civilization,” May 3, www.intellectualconservative.com/article4317.html and in Polish http://prawica.net/node/313 2005 “Our Town,” Tech Central Station, May 3, www.techcentralstation.com/050305E.html 2004 “Ukraine: Freedom Cannot Be Stopped,” Front Page Magazine, Dec. 2, www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16193 2004 “Russia: Our Partner in the War on Terror?” Front Page Magazine, Sept. 20, 2004, www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15135 2004 “Monte Cassino and the Freedom of the Soul,” GodSpy, July 5, 2004, www.godspy.com/reviews/Monte-Cassino-and-the-Freedom-of-the-Soul.cfm. 2004 “Poland: Staunch Ally,” Front Page Magazine, March 24, 2004, www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12699

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2003 “Immigrant Warriors,” www.intellectualconservative.com/article2271.html, April 9, 2003. 2003 “The U.S. and Poland: Is a Special Relationship Possible?” www.masterpage.com.pl/news/news/1107.htm 2000 “Poles, Poland, Polish Americans, Polonia,” Sarmatian Review, Jan. 2000, http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~sarmatia/100/radzilowski.html 2000 “Radzilow: An Outline History,” www.radzilow.com/history4.htm

7. Fiction 2010 “Burial at Sea,” Tidal Echoes (Juneau, AK), 103–104.

BOOKS AND OTHER WORKS EDITED (abbreviated list) 2019 Disinformation: Soviet Political Warfare during the Cold War. Natalie Wraga Grant. (Leopolis). 2018 The Catholic Church in Communist Poland. Rafał Łatka and Fr. Józef Marecki. (IPN/Leopolis). 2012 Politics, History, and Collective Memory in East Central Europe. Zdzisław Krasnodębski et al, eds. (Hamburg: Krämer.) 2010 American Intelligence Requirements for the Twenty-First Century: A New Mandate for an Effective, Assertive Intelligence Community. The William J. Casey Conference Papers, co-editor with several others (Washington, D.C.: Institute for World Politics). 2006 Building Professional Associations in Ukraine, co-editor with Zbigniew Bochniarz (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota). 2004 “Memories of a Recruiting Officer,” by Fryderyk T. Janda (edited document), Polish American Studies, 61, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 79–81. 2004 History of West Bloomfield, Michigan (West Bloomfield Historical Society). 2002 Building Management Education in Ukraine: An Action Update, co-editor with several others (Kiev: USAID/CEUME). 2001 Building Sustainable in Central and Eastern Europe: Environmental Training Project, co-edited with Zbigniew Bochniarz (Minneapolis: USAID). 2001 Building Management Education in Ukraine: A Blueprint for Action, co-editor with several others (Kiev: USAID/CEUME). 2000 “Binding the New Together with the Old: Fifteenth-Century Polish Writers on the Origin of the Polish State and People in the Face of Earlier Tradition,” Paul J. Radzilowski, Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California. Edited for the author. 2000 History of Finns in Michigan (Detroit: Wayne State University Press). 1999 “In the Wild Mountains: Idiom, Economy, and Ideology among the Hutsuls, 1849 to 1939,” by Anthony J. Amato, Ph.D. diss., Indiana Univ. Edited for the author. 1997 Guest Editor, special issue on Ethnic . Polish American Studies 54, no. 1 (Spring 1997). 1996 Ukrainian Citadel: The First Hundred Years of the Ukrainian National Association (Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs). 1995 At the Headwaters: The 1993 Flood in Southwestern Minnesota (Marshall: Minnesota Conservation Corps/SSU Flood Recovery Project).

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1995 Heritage of the Prairie: Teaching the History and Culture of the Rural World (Marshall, Minn.: Southwest State University and the National Endowment for the Humanities). Co-editor with Thaddeus C. Radzilowski and Maryann Zarzanna. 1993 Decline in Rural Minnesota, by Joseph A. Amato and John Meyer (Marshall, Minn.: Crossings Press, 1993).

MISCELLANY 2016 Thesis Reader: MA Thesis, “The Persecution of the Roma in and Beyond,” Amy Bowen, APUS. 2016 Thesis Reader: MA Thesis, “The Renewed Relevance of U.S. Navy Battleships in World War II,” Robert Ross, APUS. 2016 Thesis Reader: MA Thesis, “Underrepresenting Anti-Semitism within the Nazi Party,” Alyssa Lindberg, APUS. 2015 Thesis Reader: MA Thesis, “An Evaluation of Warrior Values in Anglo-Saxon Poetry,” APUS. 2013 Radio Program Interview: by Audra Čepkauskaitė, Radio Lithuania, on the origin of Wilno, Minnesota, May 2013. 2012 Thesis Reader: MA Thesis on the Frankish-Moorish Conflict of the 700s, APUS. 2010 Peer reviewer (anon.): Nationalities Papers. 2010 Thesis Reader: MA Thesis on Celtic Christianity; MA Thesis on The Stirrup Controversy, APUS. 2009–15 Peer reviewer (anon.): Journal of American Ethnic History 2009 Manuscript Reviewer: Wiley Blackwell Publishers. 2007 Radio Program Participant: Virginia Public Radio, “With Good Reason,” on the trans-Atlantic context of the development of the Jamestown Colony, broadcast January 2007. 2004 Manuscript Reviewer: University of Chicago Press. 2003 Content consultant: Margaret C. Hall, Polish Americans (We Are America Series.) Chicago: Heineman Library.

CONFERENCE PAPERS & INVITED LECTURES 2021 “Nemesis: The Polish Armed Forces and the Beginning of the Second World War,” Dr. Harold C. Deutsch World War II History Roundtable, April 12, Minnesota History Center, St Paul. 2020 “Early Modern Polish Commanders and the Use of Combined Arms,” Kosciuszko Chair Spring Symposium, Institute for World Politics, Washington, D.C., July 14, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MumLQcFMlLI&t=1264s 2019 “Beatae memoriae: Commemoration and Identity in American Polonia,” Seventh World Congress of Polish Studies, June 14, 2019, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland. 2018 “Paderewski, Wilson, and the Rebirth of Poland, 1914–22,” National Museum of Poland, Warsaw, 17 Feb. (Opening address at international exhibit on Paderewski.)

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2018 “: An Outstanding Artist, Statesman, and Champion of Independent Poland. Mentor for Modern Civil Society?” Międzynarodowy Instytut Społeczeństwa Obywatelskiego (International Civil Society Institute), Warsaw, Poland, 12 Feb. 2017 “Law or Justice? Moral and Legal Claims to Looted Art and Cultural Property in East-Central Europe since 1945,” conference: Preserving Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict, Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y., 20 Oct. 2017 “Kościuszko jako tabula rasa w amerykańskiej literaturze historycznej” [Thaddeus Kosciuszko as tabula rasa in American Historical Literature], Third Congress of International Researchers of Polish History, , Kraków, Poland, 14 Oct. 2015 “A New Polonia? The Recreation of Polish American Identity, 1918–45,” American Historical Association/PAHA, New York, 4 Jan. 2014 “Orphans of the ‘New Poland’ Polish Americans, the Second Republic, and the Creation of a Diasporic Identity, 1919–1929,” University of Illinois-Chicago Polish Studies Conference: “Poland in the Roaring 20s,” Chicago, Ill., 8 April. 2014 “Frantic 7 and the American Resupply Mission to Besieged Warsaw, 1944,” American Historical Association/PAHA, Washington, D.C., 3 Jan. 2013 “Death Comes to Polonia,” American Historical Association/PAHA, New Orleans, 4 Jan. 2012 “The Polish American Parish.” American Historical Association/PAHA, Chicago, 7 Jan. 2011 “Catholicism in Polonia: A Reappraisal.” American Historical Association/ PAHA, Boston, 7 Jan. 2010 “Between Education and Remembrance: The Museum of the Warsaw Uprising and the Memory of World War II in Poland,” 8th Annual Dekaban Endowed Lecture, Piast Institute, Detroit, Mich., 25 March. 2009 “Ejszyszki and the Historiography of Ethnic Conflict in Northeastern Poland, 1939–45,” paper for the conference The Polish and Jewish Resistance during the German Occupation, 1939–1945, Institute for National Remembrance, Warsaw, Poland, 23 March. 2009 “Polish American Anti-Communism,” American Historical Association/PAHA, New York, 2 Jan. (delivered by proxy). 2008 “Ethnic Anti-Communism in the United States,” at the symposium “The Cold War Warriors: Political Activism of Ethnic Groups during the Cold War in the U.S.,” 40th anniversary commemoration of the 1967 Glassboro Summit, Rowan University, Glassboro, N.J., 1 April. 2008 “Teaching the History of Poland in the U.S.: A Hopeless Case with Exceptions?” Symposium sponsored by Pilsudski Institute, New York, 26 March. 2007 “‘Fecund Newcomers’: The Forgotten Baby-Boom among East and South European Americans, 1915–35,” Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, 29 March. 2006 “Return to Truth? Writing U.S. and Polish History in the Twenty-first Century,” Center for Russian and East European Studies Guest Lecture Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 7 April.

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2004 “Poland as a Problem in Holocaust Studies,” Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, Boston, 7 June. 2003 “The Sustainability of the Transition in Central and Eastern Europe: Economics, Environment, Society, and Politics,” with Z. Bochniarz, S. Archibald, and L. Banu, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, Montreal, 6 June. 2003 “Miracle: Polish-American Reaction to John Paul II, 1978–79,” American Historical Association/PAHA, Chicago, 4 Jan.. 2003 “Making the Broken Whole or Wholly Broken? Polish-American Communication in the Internet Age,” American Historical Association/PAHA, Chicago, 4 Jan.. 2002 “Dead Hand of the Past: Polish-Russian Relations at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century,” Miller Center Forum, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 6 May. 2002 “Who Was Joe Saltis? In Search of the Polish-American Gangster,” American Historical Association/PAHA, , 4 Jan.. 2001 “Jedwabne and Beyond: Polish-Jewish Relations,” Association for , Washington, D.C., 17 December. 2001 “The Youth Problem: Crime, Delinquency, Deviance, and Reform in Polish Chicago, 1890s–1940s,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, 17 Nov. 2001 “Last Casualties of the Cold War: Polish and other East European Americans since 1989,” Miller Center Forum, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 7 Sept. 2001 “Crime, Delinquency, Deviance, and Reform in Polish Chicago, 1890s–1940s,” Fiedorczyk Endowed Lecture in Polish and Polish-American Studies, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, 25 April. 2001 “Fr. Wincenty Barzyński and a Polish Catholic Response to Industrial Capitalism,” American Historical Association/PAHA, Boston, Mass., 5 Jan. 2000 “Ritual, Celebration, and Community Building among Polish Americans,” Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America/Polska Akademia Umiejętności, Annual Conference, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 16 June. 2000 “History of Polonia,” Sixth Bi-Annual Conference on East-Central European and Polish Affairs, Orchard Lake, Mich., 20 May. 2000 “Born a Gypsy: Migration and Change in Two Polish Immigrant Communities,” St. Louis, Mo., Organization of American Historians, 30 March. 2000 “Polonia in World War II: Toward a Social History,” Chicago, Ill., American Historical Association/PAHA, 8 Jan.. 1999 “Business and Community in a Prairie Town,” Southwest State University, Marshall, Minn., Conf.: Business and Banking in the Countryside, 8 Oct. 1999 “Polish Immigrants in the United States,” St. Mary’s College Multiculturism Program Series, Winona, Minnesota, 10 Sept. 1998 “Novel as History: Parejko’s Remember Me Dancing,” American Historical Association/PAHA, , Wash., 10 Jan. 1998 “Naród and Okolica: The PRCU, the PNA, and the Formation of Polish-American Identity,” American Historical Association/PAHA, Seattle, Wash., 9 Jan. 1997 “Under Western Eyes: American Images of Polish Peasants in Europe and America, 1890s–1930s,” Snapshots from Abroad: Travel Studies Conference, Department of English, University of Minnesota, 15 Nov.

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1996 “A New Poland in the Old Northwest: Polish Farming Communities on the Northern Great Plains,” American Historical Association/PAHA, Atlanta, 7 Jan. 1995 “Regional History, Archives, and Communities: The View from Southwestern Minnesota,” Midwest Archives Conference, Topeka, Kan., 21 Oct. 1992 The Poles of Southwestern Minnesota: Successful Immigrant Farmers,” American Historical Association/PAHA, Washington, D.C., 28 Dec. 1992 “Poles and Danes in Lincoln County,” Society for the Study of Local and Regional History Conference, Marshall, Minn., 12 May.

OTHER PRESENTATIONS (abbreviated list) 2020 Presentation: “Strategic Failure: The Aleutian Campaign in World War II,” UAS Campus Library, “Ask UAS” series, Dec. 10. 2020 Presentation: “Plundered Art: The Fate of Cultural Property in Wartime from the Monuments Men to ISIS,” UAS Campus Library, “Ask UAS” series, Feb. 20. 2018 Presentation: “The Empty Chair: Internment of from Southeast Alaska,” UAS Campus Library, “Ask UAS” series, Nov. 8. 2018 Fulbright Lectures: “Paderewski, Wilson, and the Rebirth of Poland, 1914–22,” Regional Teacher Training Center, Katowice, Poland (Feb. 13); John Paul II Public Library, and University of Opole, Opole, Poland (2 lectures, Feb. 14); Wrocław Library American Corner, and Regional Teacher Training Center, Wrocław, Poland (2 lectures, Feb. 15). 2017 Presenter and Moderator: Vietnam War film screening and discussion, Ketchikan Public Library, Nov. 11. 2017 Panel Moderator and Organizer: “Soldiers and Sailors to Students: From Service to Higher Ed,” UAS Campus Library, “Ask UAS” series, Nov. 9. 2016 Joint Presentation: “Women in Combat: History and Policy, Past and Present,” UAS Campus Library, “Ask UAS” series, Nov. 10, with Prof. Ali Ziegler. 2016 Presentation: “Immigration in the U.S. and Europe: From History to Today’s Headlines,” UAS Campus Library, “Ask UAS” series, Jan. 29. 2015 Joint Presentation: “Kinship Art: Crests and Heraldry from Scottish, Tlingit and Eurasian .” UAS Campus Library, “Ask UAS” series, April 16. 2015 Presentation: “Immigrants and Natives in Southeast Alaska,” U.S. Forest Service Southeast Alaska Discovery Center, Ketchikan, March 27. 2015 Presentation: “Ukraine, Russia, and America: Current Events and Future Prospects,” UAS Campus Library, “Ask UAS” series, Jan. 20. 2014 Presentation: On the film Aleut Story and World War II Aleut Internment, UAS Campus Library, “Ask UAS” series, Nov. 30. 2014 Presentation: “Polish and Jewish Resistance Movement in World War II,” UAS Campus Library, “Ask UAS” series, Nov. 13 2013 Presentation: “Immigration in Alaska and the Lower 48: 1800s to the Present,” UAS Campus Library, “Ask UAS” series, Nov. 13. 2012 Media Appearance: “Why Vote?” (Panel discussion/call in show on voting and the history of voting), KRBD Alaska Public Radio, Ketchikan, Sept. 18. 2012 Presentation: History on film/Women’s History Month (comment and Q & A), “Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers,” UAS Ketchikan, March 30.

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2012 Chair/Commentator/Organizer: “Anti-Communism in Transnational Perspective: Poland and the USA,” AHA/PAHA, Chicago, Jan. 2012. 2012 Presentation: History on film (comment and Q & A), Glory [Black History Month], UAS Ketchikan, Jan. 2012 2011 Presentation: History on film (comment and Q & A), Outlaw Josey Wales, UAS Ketchikan, Oct. 2011. 2010 Presentation: “Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust Memoirs,” Library/Community Lecture Series, University of Alaska Southeast, Ketchikan, Feb. 24. 2010 Discussion Leader: Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, “The Paradoxes of Affluence,” University of Alaska Southeast, Ketchikan, Feb. 26, March 5 and 12. 2009 Keynote Speaker: Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, “The Paradoxes of Affluence,” University of Alaska Southeast, Ketchikan, Oct. 24. 2004 Multiculturalism Presenter: Multi-Cultural Development Center (MCDC), “Poland: Crossroads of World Culture,” Minneapolis, Jan. 20. 2003 Chair & Comment: Three papers on “Poles and Their Neighbors: Interethnic Relations in Europe and America,” American Historical Association/PAHA, Chicago, Jan. 4. 2002 Reading: “Dziadzia’s Hands,” Minnesota Humanities Commission, Immigrant Literary Voices, St. Paul, Nov. 11. 2002 Presentation: “Out on the Wind: Poles in Rural Minnesota,” Minnesota Historical Society lecture series, St. Paul, May 14. 2001 Guest Commentator: “The Polish Experience in World War II,” University of and First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, Sept. 12 & 13. 2001 Comment: New Themes in Polish-American History, American Historical Association/PAHA, Boston, Mass., Jan. 5. 2000 Presenter and Discussion Facilitator: Temple Israel, Catholic-Jewish Millennium Pilgrimage Tour Group to Eastern Europe, Minneapolis, April 11. 2000 Chair & Commentator: Diplomatic Roundtable: Ambassadors and Consuls from , Hungary, Poland, and , Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, Conf.: “Poland and East Central Europe after Ten Years of Transition,” Feb. 25. 1999 Commentary: Three Papers on Asian Ethnic Adaptation in the United States, Fort Worth, , Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 13. 1999 Lecture: “Myth and Reality: The Start of World War II in Poland,” with John L. Armstrong, PACIM, Minneapolis, Aug. 24. 1999 Guided Tour: “Polish Immigrants in Wilno, Minn.,” Wilno, Minn., Polska Days, Aug. 14. 1999 Panel Discussion: “New Faces of Local and Regional History,” Southwest State University, Marshall, Minn., April 9. 1999 Expert Testimony: In support of Minnesota Humanities Commission, Minnesota House Government Finance Committee, St. Paul, Minn., March 26. 1999 Lecture: “St. Adalbert of Frogtown: The Twin Cities’ First Polish Community,” Polish Genealogical Society of Minn./PACIM, Roseville, Minn., Feb. 20. 1998 Keynote Address: “NATO a Polski Dzień Niepodłeglości,” Independence Day Event, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, Chicago, Nov. 11.

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1998 Lecture: “Railroads and the Founding of Southwestern Minnesota,” Lyon County Historical Society, Brown Bag Lecture, Marshall, Minn., Oct. 9. 1998 Presentation: “The Secret Army: Poland’s Underground Struggle in World War II,” Polska Kielbasa Days, Ivanhoe, Minn., Aug. 8. 1998 Keynote Address: “The May 3d Constitution and its Links to America,” Convocation of Polish Saturday Schools of Detroit, Mich., May 3. 1998 Presentation: “Polish–U.S. Cooperation: Past, Present, Future,” Center Rotary Club, Brooklyn Center, Minn., April 28. 1998 Guest Lecture: “Marshall’s Progressive History,” Lyon County Historical Society, Brown Bag Lecture, Marshall, Minn., March 27. 1998 Presentation: “Polish History and Culture, and American Business,” Land O’Lakes Corp. Internal Audit Division, Minneapolis, March 26. 1998 Presentation: “Remembering Ethnic Northeast Minneapolis,” with Genny Zak Kiley, Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Feb. 5. 1997 Keynote Address: “Pre-Christian Slavic Culture,” Polanie Club of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 70th Anniversary Banquet, Minneapolis, Oct. 16. 1997 Presentation: “The Poles of Lincoln County,” followed by a Guided Tour of Wilno, Minn., with readings, Polska Kielbasa Days, Ivanhoe, Minn., Aug. 8. 1997 Reading: “Work and the Polish Americans,” Friends of the Immigration History Research Center Annual Banquet, Minneapolis, March 20. 1997 Presentation: “Polish Rural Colonization in the Upper Midwest,” Minnesota Genealogical Society Meeting, Bloomington, Minn., March 8. 1996 Presentations: “Some Remarks on the History of Polish America,” and “Polish Collections at the Immigration History Research Center,” Polish Genealogical Society Annual Meeting, Rosemont, Ill., Oct. 26. 1996 Presentation: “Polish Communities in Minnesota and the Dakotas,” Federation of East European Family History Societies, Bloomington, Minn., June 9. 1994 Panel Discussion: “Preserving Polonia’s History and Culture” (panel organizer, chair, and co-commentator), Polish American Historical Association annual meeting, San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 7.

AWARDS & HONORS 2021 Superior Achievement Award: Illinois State Historical Society, Best of Illinois History Awards, for the book Poles in Illinois. 2013 Faculty of the Year, 2012–13, Ketchikan Campus Advisory Board. 2010 Faculty of the Year, 2009–2010, United Students of the University of Alaska Southeast, Ketchikan Campus. 2009 Teaching Award for “Clear and Well-Structured Course,” DeVry University Online, HIST410: Contemporary History. 2008 Mieczysław Haiman Medal for sustained achievement in research, awarded by the Polish American Historical Association. 2006 Oskar Halecki Prize for outstanding book or historical monograph, awarded by the Polish American Historical Association for Poles in Minnesota, 2005/06. 1999 Michael Steiner Memorial Award for Best Dissertation/Thesis, Arizona State University, Department of History.

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1999 NATO Expansion Victory Commendation Medal, California Ethnic Leadership Council, , California. 1998 Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Zasługi (Cavalier’s Cross of the Order of Merit). Awarded by decree of Aleksander Kwasniewski, President, Republic of Poland. 1995 Joseph Swastek Prize for best article in Polish American Studies. Awarded by the Polish American Historical Association for “‘The Other Side of Chicago’: The Poles of Arizona,” Polish American Studies 52, no. 2 (Autumn 1995): 5–20. 1993–94 ASU History Department award for graduate student excellence. 1992–93 Iota Gamma Chapter (Phi Alpha Theta), Arizona State University, award for best article by a graduate student, for “Railroads and the Formation of Towns and Cities in the Middle West.” 1992 Joseph Swastek Prize for best article in Polish American Studies. Awarded by the Polish American Historical Association for “One Church, One Community, Two Towns: The Poles of Southwest Minnesota, 1882–1905,” Polish American Studies 48, no. 2 (Autumn 1991): 5–25.

GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS 2008/10 Teacher Education Grant (participant), Alaska Department of Education, DEEDS, University of Alaska Southeast. 2004/06 Project Grant (writer and assistant project director): U.S. Department of State, Center for Nations in Transition, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, for building professional academic associations in economics and political science in Ukraine. $199,000. 1995 Research Grant: Minnesota Historical Society. $2500. 1994/95 DeMond Scholarship: Arizona State University. 1992/94 Graduate Scholarships. 1990 Publication Grant: Minnesota Historical Society. $2000. 1989 Research and Writing Grant: Minnesota Historical Society. $2000. 1985–88 History Department Scholarships: Southwest State University.

SERVICE—PROFESSIONAL 2017– Editorial Advisory Board: Polish-Jewish Studies, Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, Poland. 2014–17 Collections Advisory Committee. Ketchikan City Museums, Ketchikan, AK. 2010–15 Board Member: Polish American Historical Association (AHA affiliate). 2010–15 Advisory Board: Polish American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest. 2008–09 Committee Member: Praxis II World & U.S. History National Advisory Committee, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J. 2007–08 Board Member: Polish American Historical Association (AHA affiliate). 2005–2015 Board Member: Piast Institute: National Center for Polish and Polish- American Affairs, Hamtramck, Mich. 2001–2003 Second Vice President: Polish American Historical Association. 1998–present Editorial Board: Polish-American Studies.

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1997–2003 Associate Editor: Periphery: Journal of Polish Affairs, Orchard Lake, Mich. 1996–2004 President: Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota 1994–2001 Recording Secretary: Polish American Historical Association (AHA affiliate). 1991–97 Vice-President: Society for the Study of Local and Regional History (Minn.).

SERVICE—UNIVERSITY 2019 Program Review Committee: Associate of Arts Degree. 2019 Search Committee: Vice-Chancellor for Enrollment Management. 2017 Chair, Search Committee: Marine Transportation, term Assistant Professor. 2017–18 Faculty Mentor: Marine transportation program faculty. 2016 Chair, Search Committee: Marine Transportation Health and Safety, term Assistant Professor. 2016–19 Pat Roppel Scholarship Committee and Frege-Siemon Math/Science Scholarship Committee, Ketchikan, AK. 2011–18 Union Representative: University of Alaska Federation of Teachers, Ketchikan Campus; also Executive Board, Statewide UAFT. 2015–16 Search Committee: Ketchikan Campus Librarian 2015 Search Committee: Ketchikan Campus Information Technology Staff 2015 Program Review Committee: Bachelor of Arts in Social Science 2014 Chair, Search Committee: Marine Transportation, tenure track Assistant Professor. 2014 Review and Update: Strategic Enrollment Management Plan, UAS Ketchikan Campus. 2012–13 Search Committee: Ketchikan Campus Director 2011–12 Search Committee: Economics tenure track, Assistant Professor, UAS Department of Social Science. 2010–11 Senator: UAS Faculty Senate, Ketchikan representative. 2010–11 Search Committee: Government/Political Science tenure track, Assistant Professor, UAS Department of Social Science. 2010–11 Search Committee: Ketchikan Campus Director. 2009–12 Regional Advisory Committee: UAS Bachelor of Liberal Arts Degree. 2009–10 Search Committee: UAS Dean of Arts and Sciences. 2008–10 Curriculum Committee: UAS Faculty Senate, Ketchikan Representative. 2007–08 Faculty Advisor: UAS Ketchikan Student Government. 2007–08 Faculty Co-Advisor: Phi Theta Kappa, Student Honor Society, UAS Chapter.

COURSES TAUGHT (through Spring 2019) University of Alaska Southeast ART 160: Art Appreciation (co-taught) ART 261: History of World Art I ART 262: History of World Art II ED/GOVT 692: American Government for Secondary Teachers GEOG 101: Introductory World Geography (classroom and online) GEOG 403: Historical Geography of North America

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HIST 105: World History I (classroom and online) HIST 106: World History II (classroom and online) HIST 131: U.S. History I (classroom and online) HIST 132: U.S. History II (classroom and online) HIST 261: Russian History HIST 300: Historiography and Historical Methods (classroom and distance) HIST 341: Alaska History (classroom and distance) HIST 375: The Middle Ages, 400–1500 (classroom and distance) HIST 375/492: Revolution, War, and Genocide in the 20th Century HIST 375: Russia and East-Central Europe since 1300 (classroom and distance) HIST 375: The Civil War from Slavery to Reconstruction (classroom and distance) HIST 440: Western Movement [American West] (classroom and distance) HIST 491: Oral History Internship HIST 492: Directed Study in History: The New Deal HIST 492: Immigration and Ethnicity in American History (classroom and distance) HIST 492: Russia & Eastern Europe in the 20th Century (classroom and distance) HIST 492: The U.S. and the Vietnam War (classroom and distance) HIST 492: World War I: Origins to Aftermath HIST 492: World War II and the Holocaust (classroom and distance) HIST 497: Independent Study in History: Museum Studies SSCI 200: Introduction to the Social Sciences (theme: Human Trafficking)

American Public University/American Military University (online) HIST 101: American History to 1877 HIST 102: American History since 1877 HIST 302: Ancient HIST 305/304: The Renaissance HIST 308/306: The British Empire OC 560/HIST 534: The Middle Ages HIST 520: Graduate Seminar in U.S. History HIST 634: History, Theories, and Contemporary Issues in Historic Preservation HIST 642: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust DeVry University (online) HUMN 410: Contemporary History [20th Century] HUMN 412: Post-1945 History HUMN 432: Society, Ethics and Technology Hamline University HIST 1300: U.S. History since 1865 Anoka-Ramsey Community College HIST 2211: U.S. History I HIST 2221: U.S. History II HIST 2240: America in the Vietnam Era University of St. Thomas HIST 113: Early America in Global Perspective HIST 114: Modern America in Global Perspective University of Phoenix (Minneapolis campus) GEO 150: Geography of World Commerce (classroom, online & directed study) University of Minnesota: Compleat & Practical Scholar Program The Immigrant Experience Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota

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History of Poland: Origins to 1795 History of Poland: 1795 to the present Polish-American History and Culture

LANGUAGES English: Native Polish: Good reading, basic speaking Slovak: Basic reading Spanish: Basic reading, speaking

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Alaska Historical Society American Historical Association Immigration and Ethnic History Society Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America Society for the Study of Local and Regional History

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