THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION The American Center for Polish Culture 2009 Annual Report 1 Contents The Mission of the Kosciuszko Foundation 3 U.S. AND POLISH ACADEMIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE 4 EXHANGE FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS FOR POLISH CITIZENS 5 SCHOLARSHIPS IN THE HUMANITIES 6-9 POLISH STUDIES SCHOLARS 10 SCHOLARSHIPS IN THE SCIENCES 11 SCHOLARSHIPS IN LAW 12 SPECIAL AND TRAVEL GRANTS 13-15 THE DOMESTIC SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS 16 Domestic Tuition Scholarships 16 DOMESTIC TUITION SCHOLARS 17-30 THE YEAR ABROAD PROGRAM IN POLAND 31 GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH IN POLAND 32 SUMMER STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM 33-34 TEACHING ENGLISH IN POLAND 35-37 ANNUAL DINNER AND BALL 38 AFFILIATE GROUPS 39-41 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 42 2 The Mission of the Kosciuszko Foundation Founded in 1925, the Kosciuszko Foundation is dedicated to promoting and strengthening understanding and friendship between the peoples of Poland and the United States through educational, scientific and cultural exchanges and other related programs and activities. It awards fellowships and grants to graduate student scholars, scientists, professionals and artists and helps to increase the visibility and prestige of Polish culture in America’s pluralistic society by sponsoring exhibits, publications, film festivals, performing arts such as concerts and recitals, and assists other institutions with similar goals. 3 U.S. and Polish Academic Advisory Committee The Foundation would like to take this opportunity to express its sincere appreciation to the members of the U.S. and Polish Academic Advisory Committees, whose members review and interview all of the applicants for the Fellowships and Grants Program. The U.S. Academic Committee is composed of: Professor Henry Bokuniewicz Marine Science Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Mr. Joseph E. Gore, Esq. President and Executive Director, The Kosciuszko Foundation, Inc. Professor Thaddeus V. Gromada Executive Director, The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, New York Dr. Christopher Lange SUNY, Health Science Center, Brooklyn, New York Dr. John Micgiel East Central European Center, Columbia University, New York. Dr. Ewa Radwanska, M.D. Ph.D. Rush University Medical Center in Chicago Professor Bozena Shallcross Department of Slavic Languages, University of Chicago. Members of the Polish Academic Advisory Committee include Dr. Andrzej Dakowski Director of the Polish Fulbright Commission in Warsaw Professor Piotr Horbatowski Director, School of Polish Language and Culture, Jagiellonian University. Professor Robert Klosowicz Department of Diplomatic History and International Policy, Institute of Political Sciences and International Relations, Jagiellonian University. Professor Zbigniew Lasocik LL.D., Dean, Law Department, The Lazarski School of Commerce and Law in Warsaw. Former Fellow of The Kosciuszko Foundation. Professor Ellina Lunarska Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. Professor Robert Pilat Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. 4 EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS FOR POLISH CITIZENS KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPS AND Among them were five Teaching GRANTS are awarded annually to Polish Fellowships as part of continuous support citizens for advanced study/research for Polish Studies programs at various and teaching at universities, institutions American Universities since 1992. of higher learning and scientific / medical centers in the United States. During the 2008/09 academic year the Foundation sponsored Teaching Under the program, The Foundation Fellowships at University of Connecticut awards Fellowship to postgraduate at Storrs; SUNY at Buffalo; University of scholars, professionals or artists with Indiana at Bloomington; University of degrees. Grants are awarded to those Massachusetts at Amherst and Hunter without doctoral degrees. Fellowships College, City University of New York. and Grants are awarded for 3, 6, or 10 month periods, depending on the In addition to funding, the Foundation nature and scope of the research provides support to the Fellows and project, the recommendations of the Grantees prior to their arrival and during American institution of higher learning, their stay in the United States. Every and the U.S. and Polish Academic effort is made to help the participants Advisory Committees. and their families with travel, housing, medical insurance, visa and U.S. During fiscal year 2009, 32 Polish scholars homeland security procedures. and scientists successfully completed Foundation staff contacts Fellows and their scholarly and scientific projects, Grantees frequently throughout their receiving nearly $500,000 in support from stay in the United States. Whenever the Foundation. The Fellows and feasible, Foundation staff conducted Grantees had been carefully chosen for exit interviews. All grant recipients are the program in a highly selective required to submit a final written process of screening, including personal activities report. interviews in Warsaw. 5 Scholarship in the Humanities Grantee Position Subject of Research/Study Amount Fund BANKA, Ewelina Ph.D. candidate, Three month Grant to conduct research $7,650 Zelosky Fund Department of towards her Ph.D. thesis entitled View from American Literature the City Shore: Identity and Urban Space in and Culture, Maria Contemporary Native American Literature at Curie-Sklodowska Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona with University in Lublin. Professor Simon J. Ortiz. CAPIK, Beata Librarian/Bibliographer, Five month Grant to compile bibliography of $11,710 Bauer Fund Department of Foreign American Polonia in particular the Polonica, National publications by Polish emigrants at the Polish Library, Bibliographic Institute of Arts and Sciences in America Institute, Warsaw. under the supervision of Professor Thaddeus V. Gromada. CIESLA, Anna Archivist, The State Five month Grant to conduct research in the $11,710 Bauer Fund Archive of the City of archives of the Polish Institute of Arts and Warsaw. Sciences in America under the supervision of Professor Thaddeus V. Gromada. DYLEWSKI, Radoslaw Assistant Professor, Three month Fellowship to conduct research $9,970 The Stanislas Department of History on colonial American vocabulary at the Chylinski Fund of English, School of University of New Hempshire, Durham, New English, Adam Hempshire with Professor Naomi Nagy. Mickiewicz University in Poznan. GARUS-HOCKUBA, Freelance film director, Three month Grant to conduct research $7,650 Spiezny Fund Bozena scriptwriter in towards her documentary film on the life of cooperation with Polish Artur Rodzinski, the distinguished Polish TV and Polish Film American conductor at various archives in Institute. the USA. GLUSZEK, Alicja Ph.D. candidate in Three month Grant to conduct research on $7,650 Roehr Fund Political Science, USA-Mexican Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Institute of American Persons at Georgetown University, 6 Grantee Position Subject of Research/Study Amount Fund Studies and Polish Washington, DC with Professor Julie Elizabeth Diaspora, Jagiellonian Walsh. University. GODLEWSKI, Grzegorz Professor, Head of Three month Fellowship to conduct research $9,970 Bauer Fund Research Team, Institute on the impact on Major Models of Verbal Art of Polish Culture, in Their Cultural and Media Contexts: University of Warsaw. Theoretical Bases of the Anthropological Approach and Case Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo with Professor Janina Brutt-Griffler. JASINA, Lukasz Ph.D. candidate in Three month Grant to conduct research on $7,650 Frees Fund History, Research the treatment of Polish-Jewish relations in post Center, Institute of East- war American historiography at Brandeis Central Europe in Lublin. University, Waltham, Massachusetts with Professor Anthony Polonsky. KORNAT, Marek Assistant Professor, Three month Fellowship to conduct research $9,970 Bauer Fund Institute of History, Polish for a book on Raphael Lemkin Polish- Academy of Sciences American lawyer and his contribution to the in Warsaw. humanization of the international relations at the Center of Jewish Studies, New York City. KOSSEWSKA, Elzbieta Assistant Professor, Three month Fellowship to conduct research $9,970 Spiezny Fund Institute of Journalism, entitled Polish Soldiers and Refugees in University of Warsaw. Palestine During and After the Second World War at the Pilsudski Institute in New York, The Archives of the Polish Army Veterans Association of America in New York and Polish Music Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. KUBICA-HELLER, Assistant Professor, Three month Grant to conduct research on $7,650 Spiezny fund Grazyna Department of Social Professor Feliks Gross at Rutgers University, Anthropology, Department of Political Sciences with Jagiellonian University. Professor Jan Kubik and at the archives of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America in New York with Professor Thaddeus V. Gromada. 7 Grantee Position Subject of Research/Study Amount Fund KROL, Zofia Ph.D. candidate, Three month Grant to conduct research for $7,650 KF Scholarship Department of her doctoral thesis What does it mean to be and Tarski Funds Philosophy and attentive? An analysis of the Category of Sociology, University of Attention in Contemporary Philosophy and Warsaw. Literature at the New School University with Professor Simon Critchley. LIPSZYC, Dominika Ph.D. candidate, Three month Grant to conduct research $7,650 Bauer Fund Department of Italian toward her Ph.D.