Contributors

Christopher Garbowski is a professor emeritus at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He is the author or coeditor of several books on religion and culture, among them Cinematic Echoes of Covenants Past and Present: National Identity in the Historical Films of Steven Spielberg and Andrzej Wajda (2018) and Truth, Beauty, and the Common Good: The Transcendentals and the Search for Meaning through Culture, Community, and Life (2021). His most recent book, The Problem of Moral Rearmament: Poland, the European Union, and the War in Ukraine, is forthcoming in 2024.Joanna Trzeciak Huss is a professor of translation studies at Kent State University. She is editor of special issues of The Polish Review devoted to Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk and Stanisław Lem. Her translations from Polish and Russian have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, Harpers, The Atlantic, Paris Review, The Hopkins Review, Zvezda, Boston Review, nonsite, and New Ohio Review, among others. Her books of poetry translation include Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wisława Szymborska (2001) and Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Różewicz (2011). Her Collected Poems of Zuzanna Ginczanka is forthcoming from Zephyr Press. She is Vice President of the Ohio Chapter of the Kosciuszko Foundation.Mark Jantzen is a professor of history at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas. His most recent book, European Mennonites and the Holocaust (2020), coedited with John D. Thiesen, was published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His research interests focus on the intersection of nationalism and religion in central Europe.Wojciech Marchlewski is an author and educator based in Warsaw, while also working for the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions in Stockholm. He is the author of Mennonici na Mazowszu w XVIII–XX wieku (2022) and coauthor, with Colin P. Neufeldt, of “Divided Loyalties: The Political Radicalization of Wymyśle Niemieckie Mennonites in Interwar Poland (1918–1939),” published in the Mennonite Quarterly Review in October 2022.Colin P. Neufeldt is a professor of history at Concordia University in Edmonton, Canada. His publications include a contribution to European Mennonites and the Holocaust (2020), edited by Mark Jantzen and John D. Thiesen—a chapter entitled “Mennonite Collaboration with Nazism: A Case Study of the Responses of Mennonites in Deutsch Wymyschle, Poland to the Plight of Local Jews during the Early Nazi Occupation Period (1939–1942).”Andrzej Pieczewski is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Economics at the University of Łódź, Poland. His areas of specialization are social and economic history and institutional economics. In particular, he is interested in the impact of political systems on economic performance. He is currently involved in a research project investigating historical roots of the political and economic mentalities of Poles and Belarusians.Donald Edward Pienkos, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, was a founder of its Russian and East European Studies and Polish Studies programs (in 1970 and 1979, respectively). He joined PIASA in 1971 on the invitation of Professor Thaddeus Gromada. His publications include an award-winning history of the Polish National Alliance fraternal (1984, 2008) and the story of the Polish American Congress and the patriotic organizations that preceded it (1987, 2012). He coauthored, with Angela Pienkos, “In the ideals of women is the strength of a nation”: A History of the Polish Women's Alliance of America (2003), and he worked with Professor James Pula as an associate editor of his extraordinary Polish American Encyclopedia (2011). He took part in the effort to bring Poland into NATO in 1999 and was honored to receive the Officers Cross of Service in 2010 from Poland's President Bronisław Komorowski.Paul J. Radzilowski is an associate professor of history at Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan. He has published on a number of subjects concerning late medieval Poland, including the diplomatic use of legend, Jan Długosz's use of narrative time in the Life of St. Stanislaus, sources for Długosz's sense of piety, and the poetry of Bl. Ladislaus of Gielniów. He also has published on the philosophy and aesthetics of history, and has presented scholarly papers on these and related subjects. He is currently working on a book about Długosz's ethical and religious sensibilities in their historical context.Aliaksandra Sidarava is a researcher in the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Among her scholarly interests are economic psychology, institutional transformation, and the interaction of formal and informal institutions. She has recently completed a research project comparing and evaluating Polish and Belarusian mentalities and their influence on the institutional type of development. At the Polish Academy of Sciences, she is involved in a project related to the situation and development of left-behind regions in Poland; this international project is implemented jointly with Germany and the Czech Republic.Wisława Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and collage artist. She published thirteen collections of poetry, and her poems have been translated into over forty languages. Her collection in English, Miracle Fair, was awarded the Heldt Translation Prize. In 1991, she received the Herder Prize, and in 1995, the Goethe Prize. She was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2011, she became an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died in Kraków in 2012.Marcin Wołk is an associate professor in the Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. His research interests encompass contemporary Polish fiction, especially by Polish Jewish authors, literary autobiography, the grotesque, and labyrinth symbolism. His critical edition of Kazimierz Brandys's selected prose, Mała księga; Wariacje pocztowe (2023), has been published in the prestigious Biblioteka Narodowa series. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Archiwum Emigracji: Studia—Szkice—Dokumenty.

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