MEET OUR SCHOLARS

Dr. Wojciech Drąg

Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wrocław

The Kosciuszko Foundation Scholar 2018-2019 Academic Year, during his 3-month research project, examines the most important works of a literary collage created by three contemporary American authors -  Lance Olsen - University of Utah, Steve Tomasula - University of Notre Dame, David Banash - Western Illinois University, David Shields - University of Washington, Merritt Moseley - University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC.

Dr hab. Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs

Lecturer at the UNESCO Chair for Education about the Holocaust at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University

The Kosciuszko Foundation Scholar 2018-2019 Academic Year, during her 4-month research project, to seeks an answer to the question why, so many years after the Holocaust, many countries still have not come to terms with the Holocaust. The study will emphasize the connection between education, social action, and current historical narratives, concepts of collective memory, national identities and historical politics in the USA and in the wider world with Prof. Deena Aranoffn at Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA; Prof. Gabriel Finder at the Jewish Studies Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

Dr Marcin Gońda

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Lodz, Poland 

The Kosciuszko Foundation Scholar, Dr Marcin Gońda (Academic Year 2018-2019) investigates the process of (re)construction of the homeland's image by Polish diaspora in Cleveland (Ohio) and its implication for collective identity negotiations. He seeks to understand how post-communist Poland appears in Polonia's imagination on two levels: individual (diaspora members' experiences) and institutional (diasporic organizations' activities). He intends to compare these research findings with results of his Ph.D. thesis on Poland's reception among the Poles in the former Soviet Union countries.

Dr hab. Anna Mazurkiewicz

Associate Professor at the Faculty of History, University of Gdansk

The Kosciuszko Foundation Scholar 2018-2019 Academic Year, during her 4-month program to teach two courses on Polish history and on the Polish-American experience at the Valdosta State University. During this time she would also investigate the archives located in the region conducting preliminary queries for two projects (personal-book project and one for the team working on an edition of primary sources) with John P. Dunn, David Williams, Chris Meyers at Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.