KATHERINE A. LEBOW
Elise Richter Fellow
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Research
Desider-Friedmann-Platz 1/8
1010 Vienna, Austria
[email protected]
Education
Columbia University,Ph.D., History, 2002
Yale University, B.A. summa cum laude, History, 1991
Teaching Positions
Oxford University (Christ Church), associate professor of History, from Oct. 2016
Vienna School of International Studies, professorial lecturer, spring 2015
Central European University, Budapest, visiting faculty, Jewish Studies, spring 2014
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, lecturer, School of Historical Studies, 2009-11
University of Virginia, assistant professor, Corcoran Department of History, 2003-8
College of Charleston, assistant professor, Department of History, 2002-3
Research and Teaching Interests
20th-century European and transnational history; Central Europe/Poland; war and society; autobiography/testimony; history of social science; urban history.
Publications
Books
The People Write! Polish Everyman Autobiography from the Great Depression to the Holocaust (in progress).
(2014 Barbara Jelavich Prize): Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56, Cornell University Press, 2013.
Articles and Book Chapters
“’Polish Sociological Traditions and the Jewish Historical Commissions in Poland, 1944-1949,” S:I.M.O.N. - Shoah: Intervention. Methods. DocumentatiON (forthcoming).
“Halina Krahelska’s Warsaw Chronicle (1941-1943): Documenting the Holocaust on the Other Side of the Wall,” in Als der Holocaust notch keinen Namen hatte. Zur frühen Aufarbeitung des NS-Massenmords an Jüdinnen und Juden/Before the Holocaust Had Its Name: Early Confrontations with the Nazi Mass Murder of the Jews, Regina Fritz, Béla Rásky, and Éva Kovács, eds., New Academic Press (forthcoming).
“La voix et le regard: les régimes visuels des concours d'autobiographies polonais, 1930-1984," Critique internationale 68 (Jul.-Sept. 2015) - in spécial issue "Voir l'histoire: sources visuelles et écriture du regard": 61-79.
Book review: K. Fehérváry, Politics in Color and Concrete: Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary, American Historical Review, 120,2 (2015): 741-43.
“Autobiography as Complaint: Polish Social Memoir Between the Two World Wars,” Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research 6,3 (2014): 13-26.
“Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta’s Landscapes,” IWMpost 112 (winter 2013-14), 8-9.
(2013 Aquila Polonica Prize): “The Conscience of the Skin: Interwar Polish Memoir and Social Rights,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 3,3 – Special Issue on Social Rights, Małgorzata Mazurek and Paul Betts, et. al., eds. (2012): 297-319.
Book review: M. Fidelis, Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland, Social History 36,3 (2011): 376-378.
“‘We Are Building A Common Home’: Destruction, Reconstruction, and the Moral Economy of Citizenship in Postwar Poland.” In Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe, Frank Biess and Robert G. Moeller, eds., Berghahn Books, 2010, 215-30.
“Kontra Kultura: The Politics of Youthful Rebellion in the Stalinist ‘50s.” In Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Bloc, David Crowley and Susan E. Reid, eds. Northwestern University Press, 2010, 71-92.
Maria Bucur, Rayna Gavrilova, Wendy Goldman, Maureen Healy, Katherine Lebow, and Mark Pittaway, “Forum on Everyday Life: Six Historians in Search of Alltagsgeschichte,” Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History 3 (2009): 189-212.
“Socialist Leisure in Time and Space: Hooliganism and Bikiniarstwo in Nowa Huta, 1949-1956.” In Sozialgeschichtliche Kommunismusforschung: Tschechoslowakei, Polen, Ungarn und DDR, 1948-1968. Christiane Brenner and Peter Heumos, eds. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2005, 527-40.
“Stalinistische Stadtplanung und Sozialgeschichte: Wohnen in Nowa Huta 1949-1956.” In Schönheit und Typenprojektierung: Der DDR-Städtebau im internationalen Kontext. Christoph Bernhardt and Thomas Wolfes, ed. Erkner: Leibniz Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung, 2005, 367-8.
Book review: J. Czaplicka et. al., Composing Urban History and the Construction of Civic Identities, Social History 30,3 (2005): 388-90.
“Public Works, Private Lives: Youth Brigades in Nowa Huta in the 1950s,” Contemporary European History 10,2 (2001): 199-219.
“Revising the ‘Politicized Landscape’: Nowa Huta, 1949-1957,” City and Society XI,1-2 (1999): 165-87.
“What’s the History of Nowa Huta to a Westerner? A Voice in the Discussion,” (in Polish) in Narodziny Nowej Huty. Materiały sesji naukowej odbytej 25 kwietnia 1998 roku, ed. Jan M. Małecki. Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Historii i Zabytków Krakowa, 1999.
“Education and the Immigrant Experience: An Oral History of Working Women and Men of New Haven,” Journal of the New Haven Colony Historical Society (Fall 1993).
Presentations
Invited Lectures and Keynote Talks
“’How Many of Us Remain from That Nightmare of Unemployment?’ Remembering the Great Depression in People’s Poland,” Colloquium on Eastern European History, University of Cologne, December 2015 [scheduled].
“'I Wanted That 250 Złoty at Any Price': Revelation and Deception in Polish Competition Memoirs, 1932-1967," Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, Oxford University, October 2015 [scheduled].
Keynote: “Dissembling Post-Liberalism: Memoirs of the Unemployed, 1932-1967,” Assembling the Post-Liberal Order in Central and Eastern Europe, Central European University, Budapest, June 2015.
Keynote: Assembling the Post-Liberal Order in Central and Eastern Europe, Central European University, Budapest, June 2015 (scheduled).
Keynote: "Was Vienna Red? Is Nowa Huta Green? Plans, People, and the Historical Imaginary," Second World Urbanity: Between Captialist and Communist Utopias/Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, October 2014.
Introductory remarks, Malinowski’s Children: East Central European ‘Betweenness’ and Twentieth-Century Social Science, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, May 2014.
Keynote: “The Polish Scholar in Europe and America: Znaniecki, Chicago, and the Invention of Polish Society in the 1920s,” 6th International Polish Studies Conference, University of Illinois, Chicago, April 2014.
“’Human, Living Document!”: Polish Sociological Traditions and the Jewish Historical Commissions in Poland, 1944-1949,” Vienna Wiesenthal Institute/Institute for Contemporary History, University of Vienna, March 2014.
“The Methodology of Witness: Pre-War Polish Sociology and the Jewish Historical Commissions in Poland, 1945-1948,” Jewish Studies Public Lecture Series, Central European University, Budapest, Feburary 2014.
“Unfinished Utopia: Excavations and Reflections of a Socialist City,” with Timothy Snyder and Dariusz Kowalski, book/film presentation, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, December 2013.
“The Nation Writes! Polish Everyman Autobiography in the Twentieth Century,” Columbia University Department of History, November 2013.
Keynote: “The Collapse of Empire and the Fashioning of the Self: Autobiographical Considerations,” keynote paper, Historical Turning Points and Biographical Experience: Eastern Europe after the Collapse of Empires (1917-1921), Nord-Ost-Institut/Hamburg University, Lüneburg, September 2013.
“American Sociology, Polish Method: A Transatlantic Love Affair,” Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, September 2013.
“Life-Writing Competitions in Interwar Poland: From Social Science Method to Civic Discourse,” Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, 2012.
“The Making of the Polish Working Class: From Stalinism to Solidarność in Nowa Huta,” Centre for Russian, Central, and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, 2009.
“The Politics of Youthful Deviance in a Stalinist New Town,” Department of History, University of Edinburgh, 2009.
Selected Conference Presentations
"Writing Polishness: Everyman Autobiography and the Boundaries of Inclusion in the Polish Second Republic," Polish(ness): Varieties of (National) Identity, Polish Academy of Sciences/University of Warsaw, May 2015 (scheduled).
“The Polish Peasant on the Sugar Plantation: Translation and Displacement in Polish Ethnography from Malinowski to Obrębski,” Malinowski’s Children: East Central European ‘Betweenness’ and Twentieth-Century Social Science, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, May 2014.
“American Sociology, Polish Method: A Transatlantic Love Affair, 1914-1945,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, November 2013.
“The Evidence of Experience: The Uses of Autobiography in Recent Eastern European and Soviet Histories” (co-respondent, with Maria Todorova), Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, November 2013.
“The Utopia of Research: The Polish Method and Transatlantic Sociology from the Great Depression to the Cold War,” Catastrophe and Utopia: Central and Eastern European Intellectual Horizons, 1933 to 1958, Imre Kertész College/Jena University, Budapest, June 2013.
“My Body, My Self: Autobiographical Portraits of Poor Polish Women, 1919-1939,” Women and Body Politics in Twentieth-Century Czech Republic and Central Europe, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna, May 2013.
“Autobiography as Complaint: Polish Social Memoir Between the Two World Wars,” Complaints: Cultures of Grievance in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, March 2013.
“Central Europe Revisited: A Symposium” (respondent), Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, March 2013.
“The Voice and the Eye: Changing Visual Regimes in Polish Competition Memoir, 1930-1984,” Visions of Socialism(s) in Eastern Europe: Visual Cultures and the Writing of History, CÉRI-Sciences Po, Paris, 2012.
“Unfinished Socialism: Nowa Huta’s Landscapes, 1949-1989,” Second Congress for Foreign Scholars of Polish History, Kraków, 2012.
“Liberated from Culture: Intellectuals, Working-Class Bodies and the Thaw in Poland,” Dissenters and Collaborators: Revisiting Cold War Binaries, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna, 2012.
“’You Promised Us Bananas and Mandarins’: Polish Autobiographies of the Spanish Civil War,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, November 2011.
“What Sovietization Was–and Wasn’t–in East Central Europe,” roundtable discussion, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, 2008.
“Technologies of Repression and Resistance in Martial-Law-Era Poland,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, 2008.
“Three Ironies of Stalinist Planning,” Fourth Balzan Workshop on the Reconstruction of Europe, Birkbeck College, London, 2007.
“‘We Are Building A Common Home’: Destruction, Reconstruction, and the Moral Economy of Citizenship in Postwar Poland,” Histories of the Aftermath, Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2007.
“Stalinist Modernity at Street Level: Henri Lefebvre, James Scott, and the Rhetoric of New Towns,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City, 2005.
“Streetwalkers, Vegetable-Sellers, and Dishonest Ekspedientki: Women and the Marketplace in Communist Poland,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, 2003.
“Sozialgeschichte Nowa Hutas,” Sozialgeschichtliche Kommunismusforschung, Collegium Carolinum, Bad Wiessee, 2002.
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2014
Aquila Polonica Prize (for best English-language article in Polish Studies 2012-13), 2013
Research Fellowship, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute , 2013-14
EURIAS Fellowship, Central European University Institute of Advanced Studies, 2013-14*
Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, 2012-13
Faculty Research Fund/Research Excellence Framework Awards, Newcastle University, 2010-2012
Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh University, 2009-10*
Sesquicentennial Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2007-8
Jean Monnet Post-Doctoral Fellowship, European University Institute, 2005
Excellence in Diversity Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2003-04
American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000
President’s Fellowship, Columbia University, 1999-2000*
Woodrow Wilson Center Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar, 1999
Fulbright-IIE Junior Fellowship, 1997-98
Council for European Studies Honorary Fellowship, 1997
Distinction in History and Barber Prize for Poetry, Yale University, 1991
*awarded
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate lectures:
World History, 1500-present
Western Civilization since 1600
European Economic History, 1300-present
Modern Poland, 1772-present
East Central Europe in the 20th Century
Post-World War II Europe
Undergraduate seminars:
The Social Experience of Communism: Opposition and Everyday Life in the Polish People’s Republic, 1944-89
Occupation, Survival, and Resistance: Poland in the Second World War
East Central Europe in the 20th Century
Modern Utopias
Viewing Communism: Eastern Europe on Film
Evidence and Argument
Contemporary Civilization I & II (Western philosophy and political thought)
Graduate seminars:
Conflict in European History
The Practice of History
East Central Europe in the 20th Century
Modern East European Jewish History
Europe and Its Others
LANGUAGES
Polish, German, French, Italian
ADMINISTRATIVE AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Administrative experience:
American Historical Association; American Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies; Polish Studies Association
REFERENCES
Prof. István Deák, 410 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10025, (212) 865-4797, [email protected]
Prof. Victoria de Grazia, Department of History, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, (212) 854-3667, [email protected]
Prof. Tim Kirk, Head of School, School of Historical Studies, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, Great Britain, [email protected]
Prof. Włodzimierz Borodziej, Director, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena and Professor, Department of History, Warsaw University; Leutragraben 1, 07433 Jena, Germany, [email protected]
Elise Richter Fellow
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Research
Desider-Friedmann-Platz 1/8
1010 Vienna, Austria
[email protected]
Education
Columbia University,Ph.D., History, 2002
Yale University, B.A. summa cum laude, History, 1991
Teaching Positions
Oxford University (Christ Church), associate professor of History, from Oct. 2016
Vienna School of International Studies, professorial lecturer, spring 2015
Central European University, Budapest, visiting faculty, Jewish Studies, spring 2014
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, lecturer, School of Historical Studies, 2009-11
University of Virginia, assistant professor, Corcoran Department of History, 2003-8
College of Charleston, assistant professor, Department of History, 2002-3
Research and Teaching Interests
20th-century European and transnational history; Central Europe/Poland; war and society; autobiography/testimony; history of social science; urban history.
Publications
Books
The People Write! Polish Everyman Autobiography from the Great Depression to the Holocaust (in progress).
(2014 Barbara Jelavich Prize): Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56, Cornell University Press, 2013.
Articles and Book Chapters
“’Polish Sociological Traditions and the Jewish Historical Commissions in Poland, 1944-1949,” S:I.M.O.N. - Shoah: Intervention. Methods. DocumentatiON (forthcoming).
“Halina Krahelska’s Warsaw Chronicle (1941-1943): Documenting the Holocaust on the Other Side of the Wall,” in Als der Holocaust notch keinen Namen hatte. Zur frühen Aufarbeitung des NS-Massenmords an Jüdinnen und Juden/Before the Holocaust Had Its Name: Early Confrontations with the Nazi Mass Murder of the Jews, Regina Fritz, Béla Rásky, and Éva Kovács, eds., New Academic Press (forthcoming).
“La voix et le regard: les régimes visuels des concours d'autobiographies polonais, 1930-1984," Critique internationale 68 (Jul.-Sept. 2015) - in spécial issue "Voir l'histoire: sources visuelles et écriture du regard": 61-79.
Book review: K. Fehérváry, Politics in Color and Concrete: Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary, American Historical Review, 120,2 (2015): 741-43.
“Autobiography as Complaint: Polish Social Memoir Between the Two World Wars,” Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research 6,3 (2014): 13-26.
“Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta’s Landscapes,” IWMpost 112 (winter 2013-14), 8-9.
(2013 Aquila Polonica Prize): “The Conscience of the Skin: Interwar Polish Memoir and Social Rights,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 3,3 – Special Issue on Social Rights, Małgorzata Mazurek and Paul Betts, et. al., eds. (2012): 297-319.
Book review: M. Fidelis, Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland, Social History 36,3 (2011): 376-378.
“‘We Are Building A Common Home’: Destruction, Reconstruction, and the Moral Economy of Citizenship in Postwar Poland.” In Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe, Frank Biess and Robert G. Moeller, eds., Berghahn Books, 2010, 215-30.
“Kontra Kultura: The Politics of Youthful Rebellion in the Stalinist ‘50s.” In Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Bloc, David Crowley and Susan E. Reid, eds. Northwestern University Press, 2010, 71-92.
Maria Bucur, Rayna Gavrilova, Wendy Goldman, Maureen Healy, Katherine Lebow, and Mark Pittaway, “Forum on Everyday Life: Six Historians in Search of Alltagsgeschichte,” Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History 3 (2009): 189-212.
“Socialist Leisure in Time and Space: Hooliganism and Bikiniarstwo in Nowa Huta, 1949-1956.” In Sozialgeschichtliche Kommunismusforschung: Tschechoslowakei, Polen, Ungarn und DDR, 1948-1968. Christiane Brenner and Peter Heumos, eds. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2005, 527-40.
“Stalinistische Stadtplanung und Sozialgeschichte: Wohnen in Nowa Huta 1949-1956.” In Schönheit und Typenprojektierung: Der DDR-Städtebau im internationalen Kontext. Christoph Bernhardt and Thomas Wolfes, ed. Erkner: Leibniz Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung, 2005, 367-8.
Book review: J. Czaplicka et. al., Composing Urban History and the Construction of Civic Identities, Social History 30,3 (2005): 388-90.
“Public Works, Private Lives: Youth Brigades in Nowa Huta in the 1950s,” Contemporary European History 10,2 (2001): 199-219.
“Revising the ‘Politicized Landscape’: Nowa Huta, 1949-1957,” City and Society XI,1-2 (1999): 165-87.
“What’s the History of Nowa Huta to a Westerner? A Voice in the Discussion,” (in Polish) in Narodziny Nowej Huty. Materiały sesji naukowej odbytej 25 kwietnia 1998 roku, ed. Jan M. Małecki. Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Historii i Zabytków Krakowa, 1999.
“Education and the Immigrant Experience: An Oral History of Working Women and Men of New Haven,” Journal of the New Haven Colony Historical Society (Fall 1993).
Presentations
Invited Lectures and Keynote Talks
“’How Many of Us Remain from That Nightmare of Unemployment?’ Remembering the Great Depression in People’s Poland,” Colloquium on Eastern European History, University of Cologne, December 2015 [scheduled].
“'I Wanted That 250 Złoty at Any Price': Revelation and Deception in Polish Competition Memoirs, 1932-1967," Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, Oxford University, October 2015 [scheduled].
Keynote: “Dissembling Post-Liberalism: Memoirs of the Unemployed, 1932-1967,” Assembling the Post-Liberal Order in Central and Eastern Europe, Central European University, Budapest, June 2015.
Keynote: Assembling the Post-Liberal Order in Central and Eastern Europe, Central European University, Budapest, June 2015 (scheduled).
Keynote: "Was Vienna Red? Is Nowa Huta Green? Plans, People, and the Historical Imaginary," Second World Urbanity: Between Captialist and Communist Utopias/Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, October 2014.
Introductory remarks, Malinowski’s Children: East Central European ‘Betweenness’ and Twentieth-Century Social Science, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, May 2014.
Keynote: “The Polish Scholar in Europe and America: Znaniecki, Chicago, and the Invention of Polish Society in the 1920s,” 6th International Polish Studies Conference, University of Illinois, Chicago, April 2014.
“’Human, Living Document!”: Polish Sociological Traditions and the Jewish Historical Commissions in Poland, 1944-1949,” Vienna Wiesenthal Institute/Institute for Contemporary History, University of Vienna, March 2014.
“The Methodology of Witness: Pre-War Polish Sociology and the Jewish Historical Commissions in Poland, 1945-1948,” Jewish Studies Public Lecture Series, Central European University, Budapest, Feburary 2014.
“Unfinished Utopia: Excavations and Reflections of a Socialist City,” with Timothy Snyder and Dariusz Kowalski, book/film presentation, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, December 2013.
“The Nation Writes! Polish Everyman Autobiography in the Twentieth Century,” Columbia University Department of History, November 2013.
Keynote: “The Collapse of Empire and the Fashioning of the Self: Autobiographical Considerations,” keynote paper, Historical Turning Points and Biographical Experience: Eastern Europe after the Collapse of Empires (1917-1921), Nord-Ost-Institut/Hamburg University, Lüneburg, September 2013.
“American Sociology, Polish Method: A Transatlantic Love Affair,” Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, September 2013.
“Life-Writing Competitions in Interwar Poland: From Social Science Method to Civic Discourse,” Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, 2012.
“The Making of the Polish Working Class: From Stalinism to Solidarność in Nowa Huta,” Centre for Russian, Central, and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, 2009.
“The Politics of Youthful Deviance in a Stalinist New Town,” Department of History, University of Edinburgh, 2009.
Selected Conference Presentations
"Writing Polishness: Everyman Autobiography and the Boundaries of Inclusion in the Polish Second Republic," Polish(ness): Varieties of (National) Identity, Polish Academy of Sciences/University of Warsaw, May 2015 (scheduled).
“The Polish Peasant on the Sugar Plantation: Translation and Displacement in Polish Ethnography from Malinowski to Obrębski,” Malinowski’s Children: East Central European ‘Betweenness’ and Twentieth-Century Social Science, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, May 2014.
“American Sociology, Polish Method: A Transatlantic Love Affair, 1914-1945,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, November 2013.
“The Evidence of Experience: The Uses of Autobiography in Recent Eastern European and Soviet Histories” (co-respondent, with Maria Todorova), Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, November 2013.
“The Utopia of Research: The Polish Method and Transatlantic Sociology from the Great Depression to the Cold War,” Catastrophe and Utopia: Central and Eastern European Intellectual Horizons, 1933 to 1958, Imre Kertész College/Jena University, Budapest, June 2013.
“My Body, My Self: Autobiographical Portraits of Poor Polish Women, 1919-1939,” Women and Body Politics in Twentieth-Century Czech Republic and Central Europe, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna, May 2013.
“Autobiography as Complaint: Polish Social Memoir Between the Two World Wars,” Complaints: Cultures of Grievance in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, March 2013.
“Central Europe Revisited: A Symposium” (respondent), Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, March 2013.
“The Voice and the Eye: Changing Visual Regimes in Polish Competition Memoir, 1930-1984,” Visions of Socialism(s) in Eastern Europe: Visual Cultures and the Writing of History, CÉRI-Sciences Po, Paris, 2012.
“Unfinished Socialism: Nowa Huta’s Landscapes, 1949-1989,” Second Congress for Foreign Scholars of Polish History, Kraków, 2012.
“Liberated from Culture: Intellectuals, Working-Class Bodies and the Thaw in Poland,” Dissenters and Collaborators: Revisiting Cold War Binaries, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna, 2012.
“’You Promised Us Bananas and Mandarins’: Polish Autobiographies of the Spanish Civil War,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, November 2011.
“What Sovietization Was–and Wasn’t–in East Central Europe,” roundtable discussion, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, 2008.
“Technologies of Repression and Resistance in Martial-Law-Era Poland,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, 2008.
“Three Ironies of Stalinist Planning,” Fourth Balzan Workshop on the Reconstruction of Europe, Birkbeck College, London, 2007.
“‘We Are Building A Common Home’: Destruction, Reconstruction, and the Moral Economy of Citizenship in Postwar Poland,” Histories of the Aftermath, Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2007.
“Stalinist Modernity at Street Level: Henri Lefebvre, James Scott, and the Rhetoric of New Towns,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City, 2005.
“Streetwalkers, Vegetable-Sellers, and Dishonest Ekspedientki: Women and the Marketplace in Communist Poland,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, 2003.
“Sozialgeschichte Nowa Hutas,” Sozialgeschichtliche Kommunismusforschung, Collegium Carolinum, Bad Wiessee, 2002.
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2014
Aquila Polonica Prize (for best English-language article in Polish Studies 2012-13), 2013
Research Fellowship, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute , 2013-14
EURIAS Fellowship, Central European University Institute of Advanced Studies, 2013-14*
Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, 2012-13
Faculty Research Fund/Research Excellence Framework Awards, Newcastle University, 2010-2012
Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh University, 2009-10*
Sesquicentennial Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2007-8
Jean Monnet Post-Doctoral Fellowship, European University Institute, 2005
Excellence in Diversity Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2003-04
American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000
President’s Fellowship, Columbia University, 1999-2000*
Woodrow Wilson Center Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar, 1999
Fulbright-IIE Junior Fellowship, 1997-98
Council for European Studies Honorary Fellowship, 1997
Distinction in History and Barber Prize for Poetry, Yale University, 1991
*awarded
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate lectures:
World History, 1500-present
Western Civilization since 1600
European Economic History, 1300-present
Modern Poland, 1772-present
East Central Europe in the 20th Century
Post-World War II Europe
Undergraduate seminars:
The Social Experience of Communism: Opposition and Everyday Life in the Polish People’s Republic, 1944-89
Occupation, Survival, and Resistance: Poland in the Second World War
East Central Europe in the 20th Century
Modern Utopias
Viewing Communism: Eastern Europe on Film
Evidence and Argument
Contemporary Civilization I & II (Western philosophy and political thought)
Graduate seminars:
Conflict in European History
The Practice of History
East Central Europe in the 20th Century
Modern East European Jewish History
Europe and Its Others
LANGUAGES
Polish, German, French, Italian
ADMINISTRATIVE AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Administrative experience:
- Exam scrutiny committee (2010, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
- Departmental management committee (2006-7); working group on mentoring (2004-5); undergraduate advisor and ethnic minority student mentor (2003-7); assistant for postgraduate admissions (2005-6; University of Virginia)
- "Epistemologies of In-Betweenness: East Central Europe and the World History of Social Science, 1890-1945" (May 2015; Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, University of Regensburg)
- "Malinowski's Children: East Central European Betweenness and Twentieth-Century Social Science" (May 2014; Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University)
- "Cities of a New Type: New Industrial Cities in Popular Democracies after 1945" (May 2015; Dunáujváros) - scientific advisory committee
- Polish Studies Seminar (2003-7; University of Virginia)
- “Archival Access and the Historiography of East Central Europe, Russia, and the Soviet Union before 1989” (1999; Harriman Institute and East Central European Center, Columbia University)
- Vienna "Long Night of Research" (2014)
- Glasgow (2008) and Virginia (2006, 2004) film festivals
- Warsaw Rising Commemoration (2004; University of Virginia)
- Charleston [SC] Historical Society (2003)
- Polish Fulbright Commission in Kraków (1998)
American Historical Association; American Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies; Polish Studies Association
REFERENCES
Prof. István Deák, 410 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10025, (212) 865-4797, [email protected]
Prof. Victoria de Grazia, Department of History, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, (212) 854-3667, [email protected]
Prof. Tim Kirk, Head of School, School of Historical Studies, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, Great Britain, [email protected]
Prof. Włodzimierz Borodziej, Director, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena and Professor, Department of History, Warsaw University; Leutragraben 1, 07433 Jena, Germany, [email protected]