PIASA Awards

Inaugurated in 1995 to honor distinguished scholars and scientists for their scholarly achievements.

2023 PIASA AWARDS

Announcements

  • The Ludwik Krzyżanowski Award

THE POLISH REVIEW BEST ARTICLE

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.

  • The Bronisław Malinowski Award

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Tomasz Zarycki, University of Warsaw, for his book The Polish Elite and the Language Sciences: A Perspective of Global Historical Sociology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

  • The Casimir Funk Award

THE NATURAL SCIENCES

Alex Wlodawer, National Institutes of Health, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of structural biology.

  • The Tadeusz Sendzimir Award

APPLIED SCIENCES

Tomasz Wierzbicki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of mechanical engineering.

  • The Oskar Halecki Award

POLISH AND EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY

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).

  • The Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award

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).

  • The Anna M. Cienciala Award

BEST EDITED MULTI-AUTHOR SCHOLARLY VOLUME

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).

  • The Susanne Lotarski Award

DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT

Larry Wolff, New York University.

  • The Karol Pilarczyk Award

PROMOTING DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW

Agnieszka Holland, filmmaker, and Wojciech Sadurski, University of Sydney.

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.

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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,
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.

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