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| In 2008, he was awarded the ''Miecislaus Haiman Award'' for "sustained contribution to the study of Polish Americans" by the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://polishamericanstudies.org/text/29/haiman-award.html |title=Miecislaus Haiman Award |author= |format= |pages= |date= |accessdate=2019-01-22 |quote= |publisher=Polish American Historical Association }}</ref> | In 2008, he was awarded the ''Miecislaus Haiman Award'' for "sustained contribution to the study of Polish Americans" by the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://polishamericanstudies.org/text/29/haiman-award.html |title=Miecislaus Haiman Award |author= |format= |pages= |date= |accessdate=2019-01-22 |quote= |publisher=Polish American Historical Association }}</ref> | ||
| In 2012, Radzilowski published an essay titled ''The Neo-Stalinist Discourse in Polish Historical Studies in the United States'' in ''Golden Harvest or Hearts of Gold? Studies on the Wartime Fate of Poles and Jews''. In the essay, Radzilowski asserts that "]" is dominant since the 1960s in American social sciences and that most American historians (with the exception of Radzilowski and a few colleagues) are engaged in "neo-Stalinism". In his conclusion, Radzilowski states that "neo-Stalinism may also be seen as a historiographic offensive bringing turmoil to Polish intellectual, cultural and social life in years following 1989".<ref name="Krzywiec1">, quote:"According to Radziłowski, it is not so much the chimerical nature of “neo-Stalinism” which is so intriguing in the text as the depth of the roots he thinks “new-Stalinism” has taken. The study scrupulously states that “neo-Stalinism” has certainly been dominant in the American social sciences since the 1960s. If one reads Radziłowski’s wordy essay literally then one may conclude that apart from him and a few authors (including the authors of the collection) most American historians are still engaged in that enterprise. Furthermore, this Soviet-European-American implant seems to have been a danger to Polish social life since the 1990s. Finally, after a lengthy exposition, the author states that “neo-Stalinism may also be seen as a historiographic offensive bringing turmoil to Polish intellectual, cultural and social life in years following 1989” (p. 246)."</ref> In her review, Danusha Goska refers to the accusation as a false smear, and states that "Squandering Polonia's energies in fruitless witch-hunts, using paranoia to turn one Polish-American on another, prevents Polonia from uniting and responding strategically to the Brute Polak stereotype".<ref>{{cite web|last=Goska|first=Danusha|title=Golden Harvest or Hearts of Gold? Studies on the Fate of Wartime Poles and Jews|url=http://www.aapjstudies.org/index.php?id=123|work=Polin|publisher=The American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies|accessdate=5 June 2012}}</ref> According to historian Grzegorz Krzywiec the essay by Radzilowski as well as one by ] wins "the nonsense writing competition by several lengths".<ref name="Krzywiec2">, quote: The essays by John Radziłowski and Wojciech Jerzy Muszyński from the collection win the nonsense writing competition by several lengths. The former’s essay titled “The Neo-Stalinist Discourse in Polish Historical Studies in the United States” was perhaps an attempt to characterize “a school of Polish historical study,” which, as one may conclude from his exposition, is a group of historians dealing with recent Polish history. What is “neo-Stalinism” and the “neo- Stalinist turn,” to leave the trendy word discourse on the margin? (Incidentally, Radziłowski misapplies that word). It is not at all easy to discern its constitutive characteristics in the tangle of the accusations.</ref> | |||
| Certain materials related to his researches in Polish and American history are archived at the Immigration History Research Center Archives at the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/6/resources/4543 |title=John Radzilowski papers |author= |format= |pages= |date= |accessdate=2019-01-22 |quote= |publisher=University of Minnesota }}</ref> | Certain materials related to his researches in Polish and American history are archived at the Immigration History Research Center Archives at the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/6/resources/4543 |title=John Radzilowski papers |author= |format= |pages= |date= |accessdate=2019-01-22 |quote= |publisher=University of Minnesota }}</ref> | ||
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John Radzilowski (born 1965) is an American historian specializing in modern history of Poland and Polish-Americans. From 2007 he has been a faculty member at University of Alaska Southeast. He is also affiliated with the Piast Institute and past president of the Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota. He is the author or co-author of 15 books and is a contributor to academic journals such as Polish American Studies, Journal of American Ethnic History, Polish Review, The Historian, and Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry.
In 1998 he received Cavaliers Cross of the Polish Order of Merit.
In 2008, he was awarded the Miecislaus Haiman Award for "sustained contribution to the study of Polish Americans" by the Polish American Historical Association.
Certain materials related to his researches in Polish and American history are archived at the Immigration History Research Center Archives at the University of Minnesota.
Books
- Out on the Wind. Poles and Danes in Lincoln County. (1992, 1995)
- Bells Over the Prairie. 125 Years of Holy Trinity Catholic Church. (1995)
- To Call It Home. The New Immigrants of Southwestern Minnesota. (1996 co-author with Joseph Amato)
- Prairie Town. A History of Marshall, Minnesota 1872–1997. (1997)
- Community of Strangers. Change, Turnover, Turbulence and the Transformation of a Midwestern Country Town. (1999) (co-author with Joseph Amato)
- Polish Immigrants, 1890–1920 with Rosemary Wallner. Coming to America Series. (2002)
- Poland’s Transformation. A Work in Progress. (2003) (co-author with Marek Jan Chodakiewicz i Dariusz Tołczyk)
- Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism. The Borderlands of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (2003) (co-author with Marek Jan Chodakiewicz)
- The Eagle and the Cross. A History of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America 1873–2000. (2003)
- Poles in Minnesota. (2005)
- Minnesota. On the Road History Series. (2006)
- Travellers History of Poland. (2007, 2013)
- Ukrainians in North America. (2007)
- American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social and Cultural Change. (2014) (edited with James Ciment)
- Frantic 7: The American Effort to Aid the Warsaw Uprising and the Origins of the Cold War. (2016) (co-author with Jerzy Szczęśniak)
References
- "John Radzilowski". www.piastinstitute.org. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
- Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (1998). "Monitor Polski Nr.5" (PDF). prawo.sejm.gov.pl.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - "Miecislaus Haiman Award". Polish American Historical Association. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
- "John Radzilowski papers". University of Minnesota. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
- Walaszek, Adam (Winter 2005). "Review". Journal of American Ethnic History. 24 (2): 119–120. JSTOR 27501575.
His monograph is descriptive, informative, and it deeply enriches our knowledge about the PRCUA, as well as American and Chicago Polonia. The Eagle and the Cross is a well-written, informative book.
External links
- Homepage at UAS
- Biography at Piast Institute
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