Visiting Scholars

Dr. Artur Grabowski [Academic Year 2009/2010]

Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor
Office: 434 Baird Hall
Telephone: (716) 645-0665

Email: ajgrabow@buffalo.edu

The Polish Studies Program’s Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Scholar for 2009 will be Dr. Artur Grabowski, Associate Professor in the Department of Twentieth Century Polish Literature at Jagiellonian University. Dr. Grabowski teaches courses on Polish poetry, drama, modern literature, and composition and has held visiting positions at the University of Washington and the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has published on, among others, Gomborowicz, Herbert, Witkiewicz, and Grotowski. He is also author of numerous essays on modern literature and literary theory, four collections of poetry, and five plays. Dr. Grabowski has translated English and Italian poetry into Polish. In Fall 2009 he is teaching POL 210 History of Poland and POL 410 Greatest Works of Polish Culture.  

 

Dr. Slawomir Jozefowicz [Academic Years 2007/2008 and 2008/2009]
Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor
Office: 434 Baird Hall
Telephone: (716) 645-0665
Email: sj58@buffalo.edu

Slawomir Jozefowicz was born and educated inWarsaw, Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, University of Warsaw (M.A. in Political Science, First Class Honors). He pursued his Ph.D. research at Birkbeck College, University of London (as the Foreign Office and City of London Scholarship Fellow), New School for Social Research, New York and University of California at Berkeley (as Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow) and received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. He also worked in the area of management and support for higher education programs at the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw.

At his home University of Warsaw (and in Collegium Civitas), Dr. Jozefowicz teaches courses in the history of political thought and modern political ideas, with special focus on the political philosophy of liberalism.

Dr Jozefowicz’s research interests focus on modern political theory and political philosophy. He has published articles and co-authored books on the political traditions of republicanism, the foundations of the European civilization, the problems of contemporary democracies, the political meaning and importance of post-modernism in philosophy, and the phenomenon of ‘political correctness’.

At Buffalo, as the Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor, he works for the Polish Studies Program teaching courses on the history of Poland and Central Europe, as well as contemporary Polish and Central European politics.