2022 Call PIASA Award Nominations

PIASA AWARD nominations

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We are accepting nominations for each of the attached awards

The Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award

Call for Nominations
The Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award in Polish-Jewish Studies
The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA)
Deadline: November 15, 2022

The award, named for Rachel Feldhay Brenner (1946-2021), an eminent Polish-Israeli-American literary scholar, is given annually to the author of the best English-language book on the history and/or culture of Polish Jews.

The winner of the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award in Polish-Jewish Studies will receive a $1000 prize and will also be recognized during the PIASA’s annual conference at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, June 9-11, 2023.

Criteria:

  • The nominated book must be written in the English language
  • The book must have been published during the 2021 calendar year
  • Both books containing original research or new, original syntheses are eligible for consideration; edited collections and self-published books are ineligible

Nominations, including self-nominations, should include:

  • A cover letter marking the submission as “Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award Nomination”
  • A curriculum vitae of the nominee
  • Three copies of the published book, one for each member of the award committee

Questions, including those related to contact information for sending nominations to award committee members, should be directed to Robert Blobaum at rblobau@wvu.edu

The winner of the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award will be selected by the following group of scholars:

Eliyana Adler, Pennsylvania State University.
Shoshana Ronen, University of Warsaw.
Piotr Wrόbel, University of Toronto.

The Anna M. Cienciala Award

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Anna M. Cienciala Award for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America (PIASA)
Deadline: November 15, 2022

The Anna M. Cienciala Award has been established to recognize the importance of collaborative scholarship and to honor Anna Cienciala, co-editor, with Natalia S. Lebedeva and Wojciech Materski, of a major collaborative work, Katyn: A Crime without Punishment (Yale University Press, 2008). Eligible books must be edited multi-author collections of scholarly articles or essays in the various fields of Polish studies broadly understood. Editors and contributors need not be members of PIASA.

The recipient(s) of the Anna M. Cienciala Award will receive a $1000 prize and will also be recognized during the PIASA’s annual conference at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, June 9-11, 2023.

Criteria:

  • The book must be written in the English language.
  • The book must have appeared during the 2021 calendar year.
  • Publications containing original research or new, original syntheses are eligible for consideration; self-published books are ineligible.

Nominations, including self-nominations, should include:

  • A cover letter marking the submission as a “Anna M. Cienciala Award Nomination”
  • A curriculum vitae of the editor or editors
  • Three copies of the nominated publication, one for each member of the committee

Questions, including those relating to contact information for sending nominations to award committee members, should be directed to Robert Blobaum at rblobau@wvu.edu

The Anna M. Cienciala Award recipient will be selected by the following group of scholars:

Marek Kornat, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Rafał Stobiecki, University of Łόdź

The Oskar Halecki Award

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Oskar Halecki Polish and East-Central European History Award
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
Deadline: November 15, 2022

Named for an eminent historian and founding member of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, the Oskar Halecki Award recognizes a scholar in the field of Polish and East-Central European history who has written a book of particular value and significance dealing with the Polish experience or including the Polish experience within a larger East-Central European context. The book or body of work should represent exemplary historical research and writing.

The recipient of the Oskar Halecki Award in Polish and East-Central European history will receive a $1000 prize and will also be recognized during the PIASA’s annual conference at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, June 9-11, 2023.

Criteria:

  • The book or body of work must be written in the English language.
  • The book must have been published during the 2021 calendar year.
  • Both books containing original research or new, original syntheses are eligible for consideration; edited collections and self-publications are ineligible.

Nominations, including self-nominations, should include:

  • A cover letter marking the submission as “Oskar Halecki Award Nomination”
  • A curriculum vitae of the nominee
  • Three copies of the nominated book, one for each member of the award committee

Questions, including those related to contact information for sending nominations to award committee members, should be directed to Robert Blobaum at rblobau@wvu.edu

The winner of the Oskar Halecki Award will be selected by the following group of scholars:

Małgorzata Fidelis, University of Illinois Chicago.
Anna Müller, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Brian Porter-Szücs, University of Michigan.

The Waclaw Lednicki Award

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Wacław Lednicki Award in the Humanities
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America (PIASA)
Deadline: November 15, 2022

Named after the first director of the Literature and Arts Section of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, the Wacław Lednicki Award recognizes the most outstanding book or creative work published, produced or presented in any of the fields encompassed within the Humanities as defined by the National Endowment for the Humanities, to include fine arts, history, languages, literature, philosophy, religion, etc. However, since Polish history has its own PIASA award, works in this field are ineligible.

The recipient of the Wacław Lednicki Award in the Humanities will receive a $1000 prize and will also be recognized during the PIASA’s annual conference at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, June 9-11, 2023.

Criteria:

  • If the nomination is based on a book, film, play or literary translation, it must be written or rendered in the English language.
  • The book or cultural product must have been published or appeared in 2021.
  • Both books containing original research or new, original syntheses are eligible for consideration; edited collections and self-publications are ineligible.

Nominations, including self-nominations, should include:

  • A cover letter marking the submission as “Wacław Lednicki Award Nomination”
  • A curriculum vitae of the nominee
  • Three copies of the nominated book, one for each member of the award committee

Questions, including those related to contact information for sending nominations to award committee members, should be directed to Robert Blobaum at rblobau@wvu.edu

The Lednicki Award winner will be selected by the following group of scholars:

Marek Haltof, Northern Michigan University.
Kris Salata, Florida State University.
Joanna Trzeciak Huss, Kent State University.

The Bronislaw Malinowski Award

ALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
Deadline: November 15, 2022

Named for the eminent social scientist and founding member and first president of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, the Bronisław Malinowski Award recognizes a scholar in one of the fields of the social sciences who has written a book or seminal publication of particular value and significance dealing with an aspect of the Polish experience. In past instances, the Malinowski Award has also recognized a scholar’s outstanding body of published work. The book, outstanding publication, or body of work should represent exemplary scholarly research published in the fields encompassed by the social sciences, including anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, according to standards recognized by those disciplines.

The recipient of the Bronislaw Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences will receive a $1000 prize and will also be recognized during the PIASA’s annual conference at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, June 9-11, 2023.

Criteria:

The book, publication, or body of work must be written in the English language.
The book or publication must have appeared in 2021. If the nomination is based on a body of work, it must include a significant publication within the last five calendar years.
Publications containing original research or new, original syntheses are eligible for consideration; edited collections and self-published books are ineligible.

Nominations, including self-nominations, should include:

A cover letter marking the submission as a “Bronislaw Malinowski Award Nomination”
A curriculum vitae of the nominee
Three copies of the nominated publication, one for each member of the committee
Questions, including those related to contact information for sending nominations to award committee members, should be directed to Robert Blobaum at rblobau@wvu.edu

The Bronislaw Malinowski Award recipient will be selected by the following group of scholars:

Michael Bernhard, University of Florida.

Jan Kubik, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan.

The Tadeusz Sendzimir Award

Nominations are being sought for the 2022
Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award

The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) is soliciting nominations for the Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award. The Award was established by PIASA in 1996 in an effort to recognize excellence, individual achievement and innovative contributions in the field of applied sciences. Exceptional Polish-American scientists or engineers who live and work in the United States are eligible for the Award.

The field of applied sciences includes branches of science and technology in which existing scientific knowledge is applied to develop practical applications, inventions or other technological advancements. Examples of disciplines within applied sciences include (broadly understood) agronomy, computer sciences, engineering, environmental science, health science, applied mathematics and many others. For a more comprehensive list, see:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_applied_science#Branches_of_applied_science

Nominators need to provide a nomination letter and a curriculum vitae of the nominee that includes a bibliography of significant publications or a list of accomplishments. Additional letters of support may be provided. Nomination is made by submitting the requested materials to the Chair of the Award Selection Committee, Dr. Wlodek Mandecki, at wlodek@mandecki.com. The submission deadline is November 15, 2022.

The Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award winner will receive a $1000 prize and will also be recognized during the PIASA annual conference at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, June 9-11, 2023.

Unsuccessful nominees will automatically be reconsidered for the Award for the subsequent four years. Nominators will be given the opportunity to update the nomination for those being reconsidered.

Tadeusz Sendzimir (1894-1989) received worldwide recognition for his outstanding and numerous contributions to metallurgy. By the early 1980s up to 90 percent of the world’s stainless steel passed through the Sendzimir process. Overall, Tadeusz Sendzimir, and the company he founded, has helped to alter the complete technological processes in steel rolling over the last six decades (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Sendzimir).

Previous recipients of the Sendzimir Award were:

  • Dr. Witold Krajewski University of Iowa
  • Dr. Wladek Minor, University of Virginia and Dr. Zbyszek Otwinowski, University of Texas
  • Southwestern Medical Center
  • Halina Zyczynski, M.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Dr. Tomasz Imielinski, Rutgers University
  • Anne Wojcicki, founder and CEO of 23andMe
  • Dr. Wladyslaw Koleczko, President of the Polish Association of Inventors and Industrial Innovators in Warsaw
  • Dr. Thaddeus B. Massalski, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Dr. Stanislaw Gorczyca, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow
  • Dr. Stanislaw Mrozowski, Professor Emeritus, SUNY at Buffalo

The Casimir Funk Award

Nominations are being sought for the
2022 Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award

The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) is soliciting nominations for the Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award. The Award was established by PIASA in 1996 in an effort to recognize excellence, individual achievement and innovative contributions in the field of applied sciences. Exceptional Polish-American scientists or engineers who live and work in the United States are eligible for the Award.

The field of applied sciences includes branches of science and technology in which existing scientific knowledge is applied to develop practical applications, inventions or other technological advancements. Examples of disciplines within applied sciences include (broadly understood) agronomy, computer sciences, engineering, environmental science, health science, applied mathematics and many others. For a more comprehensive list, see:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_applied_science#Branches_of_applied_science

Nominators need to provide a nomination letter and a curriculum vitae of the nominee that includes a bibliography of significant publications or a list of accomplishments. Additional letters of support may be provided. Nomination is made by submitting the requested materials to the Chair of the Award Selection Committee, Dr. Wlodek Mandecki, at wlodek@mandecki.com. The submission deadline is November 15, 2022.

The Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award winner will receive a $1000 prize and will also be recognized during the PIASA annual conference at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, June 9-11, 2023.

Unsuccessful nominees will automatically be reconsidered for the Award for the subsequent four years. Nominators will be given the opportunity to update the nomination for those being reconsidered.

Tadeusz Sendzimir (1894-1989) received worldwide recognition for his outstanding and numerous contributions to metallurgy. By the early 1980s up to 90 percent of the world’s stainless steel passed through the Sendzimir process. Overall, Tadeusz Sendzimir, and the company he founded, has helped to alter the complete technological processes in steel rolling over the last six decades (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Sendzimir).

Previous recipients of the Sendzimir Award were:

  • Dr. Witold Krajewski University of Iowa
  • Dr. Wladek Minor, University of Virginia and Dr. Zbyszek Otwinowski, University of Texas
  • Southwestern Medical Center
  • Halina Zyczynski, M.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Dr. Tomasz Imielinski, Rutgers University
  • Anne Wojcicki, founder and CEO of 23andMe
  • Dr. Wladyslaw Koleczko, President of the Polish Association of Inventors and Industrial Innovators in Warsaw
  • Dr. Thaddeus B. Massalski, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Dr. Stanislaw Gorczyca, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow
  • Dr. Stanislaw Mrozowski, Professor Emeritus, SUNY at Buffalo

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