is a visiting adjunct professor of economics and finance at the Rzeszów University of Information Technology and Management (WSiZ). His 30+ years of experience span transition economics, finance, and industrial policy. At WSiZ his teaching duties include Managerial Economics, International Finance, International Economics, and Economics of Sustainable Development. Before joining WSiZ, Dr. Bledowski served as Senior Council Director/Director of Economic Studies at Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI), a policy research forum in Arlington, Virginia. Prior appointments included work at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, Pioneer Trust Fund in Warsaw, and Cahners Economics in Newton, MA.

His work-life balance calls for spending time on a rotating basis in Poland, the United States, and Canada.

Dr. Bledowski is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, a member of the American Economic Association, and the Association of Polish Economists. He holds an MA in international economics from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), a MA in economics from Boston College, and a PhD in economics from the Polish University London.

is the Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Chair in Political Science at the University of Florida. His research focuses on democratization and development, both globally and in Europe. His work explores topics such as the role of civil society in democratization, institutional choice in new democracies, the political economy of democratic survival, the legacy of extreme dictatorships, and the politics of memory. He has been closely involved with the Varieties of Democracy project in various capacities.

From 2017 to 2023, he served as editor of Perspectives on Politics, a flagship journal of the American Political Science Association (APSA). He has also chaired APSA’s European Politics Section, led the Research Network on the Historical Development of States and Regimes for the Council for European Studies, and served as editor of the newsletter for APSA’s Democracy and Autocracy Section.

is an Associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and editor of H-Poland.  

She is the author of three books: The Carpathians:  Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine (2021), Poland:  The First Thousand Years (2014; paperback edition, 2016; audiobook, 2022), and Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland (2004). In 2014 she was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. Dabrowski was the 2021 recipient of the Mary Zirin Prize, awarded annually by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies to an independent scholar. In 2022 her Carpathians book won two Polish awards: honorable mention for Pro Historia Polonorum, an award for the best Polish history book written by a non-Polish historian in the last five years (2017-2021) as well as honorable mention in the category “best foreign publication promoting Poland’s history” sponsored by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. 

Senior Lecturer Emerita taught Polish language and literature at Columbia University for over three decades. She also organized scholarly, international conferences, and related events.

She received her MA from Warsaw University in Polish literature and defended her Ph.D. dissertation in Russian literature at the Slavic Department of the New York University in 1990. She was a member of the Board of Directors, and Acting President of PEN Center for Writers in Exile in New York. Presently is a member of the Board of Director of Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America.

She is an author of 19 books of poetry, her poetry books have been published in Polish, English, French, Italian, Ukrainian, and Spanish. 

She is the recipient of the 1981 Kościelski Foundation of Switzerland literary prize, a 2003 Literary Prize from W. & N. Turzański Foundation (Toronto, Canada). In 2015 she received the Literary Prize of the Union of Polish Writers in Exile, based in London. In 2002 Anna Frajlich received The Knight Cross of the Order of Merit awarded by the President of the Polish Republic, in 2008 she received the honorary title of the Ambassador of Szczecin, Poland, and in 2017 the Distinguished Pole Award in USA in the category of culture.

In 2020 she received Szczecin University Medal, and she was awarded the Jubilee Medal of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.
In 2021 The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) awarded her The Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award, and The Polish American Historical Association awarded her the Oscar Halecki Prize for her book “The Ghost of Shakespeare: collected essay” edited by Ronald Meyer. 

In 2022 she received a Literary Award from Wschodnia Fundacja Kultury “Akcent” in Lublin.

is Professor of Film at Northern Michigan University. He earned his degrees from the University of Silesia (Poland) and Flinders University of South Australia, completing his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta and his habilitation at Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

His books include Polish Cinema: A History (2019), Screening Auschwitz: Wanda Jakubowska’s The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration (2018), Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema (2015/2007), Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory (2012), The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski (2004), and Polish National Cinema (2002). He has also written on Australian cinema, including Australian Cinema: On the Screen Construction of Australia (in Polish, 2005), Authorship and Art Cinema: The Case of Paul Cox (in Polish, 2001), and Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide(1996).

In addition to his academic work, he has published two short novels in Poland, Maks jest wielki (1988) and Duo Nowak(1996). His works have been translated into multiple languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Czech, and Spanish.

is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at West Virginia University.  He specializes broadly in the social, political and cultural history of Poland in the first decades of the twentieth century.  His most recent book is A Minor Apocalpyse: Warsaw during the First World War (2017).  He is also the editor of Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland (2005) , and author of Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904–1907 (1995) and Feliks Dzierżyński and the SDKPiL: A Study of the Origins of Polish Communism (1984).  He has served on the executive boards of the Association for Slavic, East European and American Studies and the Polish Studies Association, and is currently the president of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.  A past recipient of the Oskar Halecki Prize for the best book in Polish history (for Rewolucja ), Blobaum is a multiple Fulbright grant recipient and his research has also been supported by the International Research and Exchanges Board, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. He is currently engaged in micro-historical research on the Polish-Jewish small town of Wyszkow in the first half of the twentieth century.

is a Professor of History Emeritus at Purdue University and the former editor of Polish American Studies.

He is the author or editor of 26 books on Polish themes, immigration, and the American Civil War including the Polish American Encyclopedia (McFarland, 2012), Polish Immigrants and American Reform: Eight Leaders in the Antebellum Women’s Rights and Anti-Slavery Movements (McFarland, 2023), Polish American Voices: A Documentary History, 1608-2020 (Routledge, 2023, co edited with Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann), Immigration & Immigrant Communities (1790-2016) (Grey House Publishing, 2017), The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy (Ohio University Press, 2010, with M. B. B. Biskupski and Piotr Wróbel), For Liberty and Justice: A Biography of Brig. Gen. Włodzimierz B. Krzyżanowski (Syracuse University Press, 2008), Thaddeus Kościuszko: The Purest Son of Liberty (Hippocrene Press, 1998), Polish Americans: An Ethnic Community (Twayne, 1995), Polish Democratic Thought From the Renaissance to the Great Emigration: Essays and Documents (Columbia University Press, 1990, with M. B. Biskupski), and United We Stand: The Role of Polish Workers in the New York Mills Textile Strikes, 1912 and 1916 (Columbia University Press, 1990).

His work has been honored with five Oscar Halecki Awards for the best Polish-themed book of the year, the Rudewicz Medal for outstanding scholarly contributions to the study of Polonia, the Distinguished Service Award from the American Council for Polish Culture, the Mieczysław Haiman Award from the Polish American Historical Association for contributions to the study of Polonia, the Tadeusz Kościuszko Medal from Polonica Technica, the U. S. Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

(PhD, Indiana University) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas, where he serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of History. Supported by grants from Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the American Council of Learned Societies, the International Research Exchange (IREX) and others, he is the author of Becoming Metropolitan: Urban Selfhood and the Making of Modern Cracow (2010) and multiple peer-reviewed articles/chapters related to urban history, press history, and the history of technology. With Robert Blobaum, he co-edited a cluster on Polish cities during the Great War and contributed an article on Kraków, published in The Polish Review. He is finishing a book manuscript on cycling, motoring, and aviation in Poland from 1885-1939 and beginning new research on the restoration of European bison to Białowieża Primeval Forest in the 1920s and 30s. In addition to serving on the board of PIASA, he has served on the boards of the City Historical Museum of Kraków and the Polish Studies Association. 

is the William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology and the Weiser Family Professor of European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies.

A historical and cultural sociologist, her research examines nationalism and religion, collective memory and national mythology, anti-/philo-Semitism, and cultural politics in Eastern Europe and North America. Her books include The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (Chicago, 2006), Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion and Secularism in Quebec (Chicago, 2016), and Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival (Princeton, 2022), all of which have received multiple awards.

A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, she has held visiting professorships at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the University of Regensburg.

is a professor emerita in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her main areas of research are Polish and Polish Jewish literature, modern intellectual history, and gender studies. She is the author or coeditor of six books, including Taking Liberties: Gender, Transgressive Patriotism, and Polish Drama, 1786-1989 (2014), Polonistyka po amerykańsku: Badania nad literaturą polską w Ameryce Północnej, 1990-2005 (2005; coedited with Andrzej Karcz and Tamara Trojanowska), and The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe (2004; coedited with Michael Cherlin and Richard L. Rudolph). In 2020, she became the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of The Polish Review.