2023 PIASA Awards Announcement
PIASA is pleased to recognize and congratulate the recipients of its 2023 Awards:
Ludwik Krzyżanowski Polish Review Best Article Award: Vitalii Borymskyi, Institute of History of Ukraine, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, “The Polish-Ukrainian Alliance of 1920 and ‘White Russia’,” The Polish Review, 67, 2 (March 2022): 64-85.
Bronisław Malinowski Social Sciences Award: Tomasz Zarycki, University of Warsaw, for his book The Polish Elite and the Language Sciences: A Perspective of Global Historical Sociology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award: Alex Wlodawer, National Institutes of Health, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of structural biology.
Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award: Tomasz Wierzbicki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of mechanical engineering.
Oskar Halecki Polish History Award: Małgorzata Fidelis, University of Illinois-Chicago, for her book Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland (Oxford University Press, 2022). Honorable Mention: Kyrill Kunakhovich, University of Virginia, for his book Communism’s Public Sphere: Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany (Cornell University Press, 2022).
Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award in Polish-Jewish Studies: Yechiel Weizman, Bar-Ilan University, for his book Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland’s Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2022), and Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan, for her book Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival (Princeton University Press, 2022).
Anna M. Cienciala Best Edited Book Award: Irena Grudzińska Gross and Konrad Matyjaszek, both from the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, for Breaking the Frame: New School of Polish-Jewish Studies. An Introduction (Peter Lang, 2022). Honorable Mention: Katarzyna Fazan, Jagiellonian University, Michal Kobialka, University of Minnesota, and Bryce Lease, Royal Holloway, University of London, for A History of Polish Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award: Larry Wolff, New York University.
The Karol Pilarczyk Foundation Award for the Promotion of Democracy and the Rule of Law: Agnieszka Holland, filmmaker, and Wojciech Sadurski, University of Sydney.
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