2024
PIASA Awards
Inaugurated in 1995 to honor distinguished scholars and scientists for their scholarly achievements.
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The Bronisław Malinowski Award
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Recipient: Magdalena Waligórska, Humboldt University, Berlin for Cross Purposes: Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Honorable Mention: Jack Palmer, University of Leeds, for Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile (McGill Queens University Press, 2023).
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The Ludwik Krzyżanowski Award
THE POLISH REVIEW
Recipient: Dariusz Libionka, Polish Academy of Sciences, for “On Military Assistance to the Fighters of the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw – 80 Years Later,” translated by Philip Earl Steele and published in The Polish Review, vol. 68, no. 4 (December 2023).
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The Casimir Funk Award
THE NATURAL SCIENCES
Recipient: Dr. Piotr Chomczyński, Founder and Director of the Molecular Research Center, Cincinnati.
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The Waclaw Lednicki Award
THE HUMANITIES
Recipient: Agata Łuksza, Warsaw University, for Polish Theatre Revisited: Theatre Fans in the Nineteenth Century (University of Iowa Press, 2023). Honorable Mention: Sławomir Dobrzański, Kansas State University for Complete Piano Works of Feliks Łabuński (CD album and YouTube video performance, 2023).
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The Tadeusz Sendzimir Award
APPLIED SCIENCES
Recipient: Dr. Wojciech Zaremba, Co-founder and Robotics Research Manager, OpenAI.
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The Oskar Halecki Award
POLISH AND EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY
Recipient: Tomasz Grusiecki, Boise State University, for Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland (Manchester University Press, 2023).
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The Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award
POLISH-JEWISH STUDIES
Recipient: Janine Holc, Loyola University of Maryland for The Weavers of Trautenau: Female Labor in the Holocaust (Brandeis University Press, 2023).
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The Anna M. Cienciala Award
BEST EDITED MULTI-AUTHOR SCHOLARLY VOLUME
Recipient: Halina Goldberg, Indiana University, and Nancy Sinkoff, Rutgers University, eds., for Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery (Rutgers University Press, 2023). Honorable Mention: Stanley Bill, Cambridge University, and Simon Lewis, University of Bremen, eds., for Multicultural Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania and Its Afterlives (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023).
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The Susanne Lotarski Award
DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT
Recipients: Joanna Rostropowicz Clark, Princeton Research Forum, and Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Washington and Lee University.
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The Karol Pilarczyk Award
PROMOTING DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW
Recipient: The Team of Journalists at OKO Press, Warsaw.
Distinguished Awardees
include
- 1995 – Dr. Andrzej S. Kaminski, Georgetown University
- 1996 – Dr. Robert Blobaum, University of West Virginia
- 1997 – Dr. Piotr S. Wandycz, Yale University
- 1998 – Dr. Timothy Snyder, Harvard University
- 2001 – Dr. Brian Allen Porter, University of Michigan
- 2003 – Dr. Daniel Stone, University of Winnipeg
- 2005 – Dr. Gershon David Hundert, McGill University
- 2007 – Dr. Marci Shore, Yale University
- 2014 – Dr. M.B.B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University
- 2014 – Dr. James Pula, Purdue University – North Central
- 2017 – Dr. Keely Stauter-Halsted, University of Illinois-Chicago
- 2018 – Dr. Paul Knoll, University of Southern California
- 2019 – Dr. Anna Műller, University of Michigan-Dearborn
- 2020 – Dr. Dominic A. Pacyga, Columbia College (Chicago)
- 2021 – Dr. Molly Pucci, Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century European History, Trinity College Dublin and Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
- 2022 – Dr. Kenneth B Moss, the University of Chicago Honorable Mention: Dr. Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Jagiellonian University
2023 – Dr. Małgorzata Fidelis, University of Illinois Honorable Mention: Dr. Kyrill Kunakhovich, University of Virginia.
- 2024 – Tomasz Grusiecki, Boise State University.
- 1995 – Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University
- 1996 – Dr. Alexander Wolszczan, Pennsylvania State University
- 1997 – Dr. Hilary Koprowski, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
- 1998 – Dr. Peter T. Wolczanski, Cornell University
- 2001 – Dr. Andrew Wojcicki, Ohio State University
- 2003 – Dr. Waclaw Szybalski, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 2005 – Dr. Benoit Mandelbrot, Yale University
- 2008 – Dr. Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2013 – Dr. Maria Siemionow, Cleveland Clinic
- 2014 – Dr. Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, New York Medical College
- 2016 – Prof. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University
- 2017 – Dr. Andrew V. Schally, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Miami
- 2018 – Dr. Krzysztof Palczewski, University of California-Irviine
- 2019 – Dr. Jack W. Szostak, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
- 2020 – Dr. Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers University
- 2021 – Witold Nazarewicz, John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor and Chief Scientific Officer for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University
- 2022 – Dr. Thomas Wisniewski, New York University School of Medicine, and Director of NYU’s Alzheimer Disease Center
- 2023 – Dr. Alex Wlodawer, National Institutes of Health
2024 – Dr. Piotr Chomczyński, Founder and Director of the Molecular Research Center, Cincinnati.
- 1995 – Dr. Helena Znaniecka Lopata, Loyola University, Chicago
- 1995 – Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic & International Studies
- 1997 – Dr. Adam Podgorecki, Carleton University & University of Warsaw
- 1998 – Eva Hoffman, author
- 2001 – Dr. Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University and Dr. Jan Kubik, Rutgers University.
- 2007 – Dr. Michael Bernhard, Pennsylvania State University
- 2017 – Dr. Marysia H. Galbraith, University of Alabama
- 2018 – Dr. Evgeny Finkel, Johns Hopkins University
- 2019 – Dr. Jeffrey S. Kopstein, University of California-Irvine and Dr. Jason Wittenberg, University of California-Berkeley
- 2020 – Dr. Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University
- 2021 – Geneviève Zubrzycki, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, the Center for European Studies, and the Copernicus Program in Polish Studies, University of Michigan
- 2022 – Dr. Agnieszka Graff, University of Warsaw, and Dr. Elżbieta Korolczuk, Södertörn University (Stockholm) and University of Warsaw
- 2023 – Dr. Tomasz Zarycki, University of Warsaw
- 2024 – Magdalena Waligórska, Humboldt University, Berlin Honorable Mention: Jack Palmer, University of Leeds.
- 1996 – Dr. Tomas A. Venclova, Yale University
- 1998 – Dr. Beth C. Holmgren, University of North Carolina
- 2001 – Dr. Jan C. Cavanaugh, Seattle, Washington
- 2003 – Dr. Roman Koropeckyj, UCLA
- 2005 – Dr. Karen Majewski, Polish American Historical Association (PAHA), Orchard Lake Schools, Orchard Lake, Michigan
- 2007 – Dr. Marek Bartelik, Cooper Union, New York
- 2014 – Adrian Prawica, director and filmmaker, Chicago, Illinois
- 2017 – Dr. Ursula Phillips, University College London
- 2018 – Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough, author and translator, Boston, Massachusetts
- 2019 – Dr. Marek Haltof, Northern Michigan University
- 2020 – Dr. Grażyna J. Kozaczka, Cazenovia College
- 2022 – Dr. Katarzyna Bartoszynska, Ithaca College Honorable Mention: Dr. Aleksandra Kremer, Harvard University
- 2024 – Agata Łuksza, Warsaw University Honorable Mention: Sławomir Dobrzański, Kansas State University
- 1996 – Dr. Stanislaw Mrozowski, Professor Emeritus, SUNY at Buffalo
- 1997 – Dr. Stanislaw Gorczyca, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow
- 1998 – Dr. Thaddeus B. Massalski, Carnegie Mellon University
- 2001 – Dr. Wladyslaw Koleczko, President of the Polish Association of Inventors and Industrial Innovators in Warsaw
- 2017 – Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe, Los Altos Hills, California
- 2018 – Dr. Tomasz Imielinski, Rutgers University
- 2019 – Halina Zyczynski, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- 2020 – Dr. Władek Minor, University of Virginia and Dr. Zbyszek Otwinowski, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas
- 2021 – Witold F. Krajewski, Rose and Joseph Summers Chair in Water Research Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa
- 2022 – Dr. Marcin Żukowski, co-founder and vice president of engineering at Snowflake Computing
- 2023 – Dr. Tomasz Wierzbicki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2024 – Dr. Wojciech Zaremba, Co-founder and Robotics Research Manager, OpenAI.
- 1995 – Dr. Andrzej Chmielarz, Institute of Military History, Warsaw
- 2015 – Dr. Robert Blobaum, West Virginia University
- 2017 – Dr. Rafal Wnuk, Catholic University of Lublin, and Dr. Piotr M. Majewski, Warsaw University
- 2018 – Dr. Adam Chmielewski, University of Wrocław
- 2019 – Dr. Christopher Garbowski, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin
- 2020 – Dr. Anna Krakus, University of Copenhagen
- 2021 – Dr. Anna Muller, University of Michigan-Dearborn
- 2022 – Dr. Dariusz Stola
- 2023 – Dr. Vitalii Borymskyi, Institute of History of Ukraine, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences
- 2024 – Dariusz Libionka, Polish Academy of Sciences.
- 2007 – Dr. Anna M. Cienciala, University of Kansas
- 2014 – Dr. Paul Knoll, University of Southern California
- 2018 – Dr. Jan Kubik, Rutgers University
- 2019 – Dr. Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University
- 2020 – Dr. Anna Frajlich-Zając, Columbia University
- 2021 – Roman Koropeckyj, Professor of Slavic Languages, Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles
- 2022 – Dr. Irena Grudzińska Gross, Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Madeline G. Levine, Kenan Professor of Slavic Literatures Emerita, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 2023 – Dr. Larry Wolff, New York University
- 2024 – Joanna Rostropowicz Clark, Princeton Research Forum, and Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Washington and Lee University.
- 2021 - Dr. Eliyana Adler, Pennsylvania State University
- 2022 – Dr. Alina Molisak, Warsaw University Honorable Mention: Dr. Jan Rybak, Central European University
- 2023 – Dr. Yechiel Weizman, Bar-Ilan University and Dr. Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan
- 2024 – Janine Holc, Loyola University of Maryland
- 2021 – Dr. Silvia Dapia, City University of New York
- 2022 – Dr. Katharina Friedla, Hoover Institution Stanford and Dr. Markus Nesselrodt, Europe-Universität Viadrina
- 2023 – Dr. Irena Grudzińska Gross and Dr. Konrad Matyjaszek, both from the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences Honorable Mention: Dr. Katarzyna Fazan, Jagiellonian University, Dr. Michal Kobialka, University of Minnesota, and Dr. Bryce Lease, Royal Holloway, University of London.
- 2024 – Halina Goldberg, Indiana University, and Nancy Sinkoff, Rutgers University Honorable Mention: Stanley Bill, Cambridge University, and Simon Lewis, University of Bremen.
- 2023 – Marta Gorczynska, human rights lawyer and co-founder of the NGO Grupa Granica (The Border Group), and head of the Migration Department at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw.
- 2023 – Agnieszka Holland, filmmaker, and Wojciech Sadurski, University of Sydney.
2024 –The Team of Journalists at OKO Press, Warsaw.