Welcome to the Polish Studies Program!
The Polish Studies Program at the University at Buffalo has entered a period of programmatic development. We aspire to engage students, scholars and the community whose knowledge and interests center on the Polish experience. The Program's mission involves a broad approach to the discipline that situates Polishness in its historical contexts of cosmopolitanism, transnationalism and diaspora. We seek to provide a contemporary international perspective that reflects the nation's new position as a member of the European Union, incorporating, at the same time, the Polish experience outside of Poland as reflected in the Polish community in Buffalo.
News and Events
The Polish Studies Program hosts the 2013 meeting of the Polish American Historical Association
All the events will take place on May 16, 2013 at 509 O'Brian Hall (Cellino and Barnes Conference Center), North Campus
See the details of the annual PAHA meeting hosted by the Polish Studies Program at UB
John J. Bukowczyk's lecture, Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 5:00-7:00 p.m., 509 O’Brian Hall, UB North Campus
The Polish Studies Program and the Polish American
Historical Organization present the
academic session entitled: “Ethnic and Not Quite White: Poles and
Others in Urban America.” The session will feature a lecture by John J.
Bukowczyk, Professor of History at
Wayne State University in Detroit, editor of the Journal of American
Ethnic History, author of A History of the Polish Americans, former president of the Polish American Historical Association.
Professor Bukowczyk's lecture will be followed by comments delivered by
invited
discussants: Professor Keith P. Griffler, Chair of the
Department of
Transnational Studies at UB, and Professor Victoria W. Wolcott, Department of History at UB.
See the details of the event
James S. Pula at the Polish Arts Club of Buffalo, May 15th, 2013, 7:00 p.m, 4255 Harlem Road, Snyder, NY
The Polish Studies Program announces a lecture by James S. Pula, Professor of History at Purdue University, titled "Kościuszko’s
Return to America." Professor Pula has authored and edited numerous books and articles on immigration history. He is also the editor-in-chief of the acclaimed The Polish American Encyclopedia (2011) and the scholarly journal Polish American Studies published by the Polish American Historical Association.
The lecture is hosted by the Polish Arts Club of Buffalo and the
Polish American Historical Association.
See the details of the event
Check our new courses for the Fall 2013 semester:
Fall 2013 Polish Studies courses
Academic Year 2012-2013
The Polish Studies Program will welcome one scholar from Poland on the Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship during the academic year 2012-2013.
Dr. Anna Mazurkiewicz has been awarded the Kosciuszko Foundation Teaching Fellowship at UB’s Polish Studies Program for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013. Dr. Mazurkiewicz is Assistant Professor at the History Institute of the University of Gdansk. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Gdańsk, Poland (2006) and has published monographs on U.S. diplomatic relations with Poland and the American press' coverage of elections in Poland in 1947 and 1989. Some of the articles she published concern, among other subjects, Polish presidents 1947-2000 from the American vantage point, and the Assembly of Captive European Nations 1954-1972. She received the award from the Polish National Center for Culture for her doctoral dissertation in History in 2007 and the Krzysztof Celestyn Mrongowiusz Distinction for Excellence in Teaching (2010). In 2002–2003 she taught at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
In the Spring of 2013, she will teach two courses - for more information, go to current Polish Studies course information.
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