John Radzilowski

John Radzilowski (born 1965) is an American historian, and author of numerous books and articles in the modern history of Poland and in the history of Polish-Americans. He is an associate professor of history at the University of Alaska Southeast.[1]

Career

In 1999, Radzilowski received his PhD from the Arizona State University.[2] He taught courses at the University of St. Thomas, Hamline University, and Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Minnesota. Since 2007, he has been a faculty member at the University of Alaska Southeast.[1]

Radzilowski is a fellow if the Piast Institute and is past president of the Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota.[3] He later worked as the assistant coordinator of the Center for Nations in Transition at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.[3][1]

Awards

In 1998 he received Cavaliers Cross of the Polish Order of Merit.[4]

In 2006, he received the Oskar Halecki Prize from the Polish American Historical Association for his book Poles in Minnesota.[1]

In 2008, he was awarded the Miecislaus Haiman Award for "sustained contribution to the study of Polish Americans" by the Polish American Historical Association.[5]

Books
  • Out on the Wind. Poles and Danes in Lincoln County. (1992, 1995)[6]
  • 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)[7]
  • Prairie Town. A History of Marshall, Minnesota 1872–1997. (1997)[8]
  • 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)[9]
  • Poland’s Transformation. A Work in Progress. (2003) (co-author with Marek Jan Chodakiewicz i Dariusz Tołczyk)[10]
  • Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism. The Borderlands of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (2003) (co-author with Marek Jan Chodakiewicz)[11]
  • The Eagle and the Cross. A History of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America 1873–2000. (2003)[12]
  • Poles in Minnesota. (2005)[13]
  • Minnesota. On the Road History Series. (2006)[14]
  • Travellers History of Poland. (2007, 2013)[15]
  • The New Immigrants: Ukrainians Americans (Series editor: Robert D. Johnston) (2007)[16]
  • American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social and Cultural Change. (2014) (edited with James Ciment)[17]
  • Frantic 7: The American Effort to Aid the Warsaw Uprising and the Origins of the Cold War. (2016) (co-author with Jerzy Szczęśniak)

See also

Thaddeus Radzilowski

References
  1. "John Radzilowski". University of Alaska Southeast. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  2. "John Radzilowski". University of Alaska Southeast. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  3. "John Radzilowski". www.piastinstitute.org. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  4. Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (1998). "Monitor Polski Nr.5" (PDF). prawo.sejm.gov.pl.
  5. "Miecislaus Haiman Award". Polish American Historical Association. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
  6. Radzilowski, John; Mahal, Jennifer (1992). Out on the Wind: Poles and Danes in Lincoln County, Minnesota, 1880-1905. Crossings Press. ISBN 9780961411947.
  7. Amato, Joseph Anthony; Meyer, John W. (1996-01-01). To Call it Home: The New Immigrants of Southwestern Minnesota. Crossings Press. ISBN 9780961411978.
  8. Radzilowski, John (1997). Prairie Town: A History of Marshall, Minnesota, 1872-1997. Lyon County Historical Society.
  9. Wallner, Rosemary (2003). Polish Immigrants, 1890-1920. Capstone. ISBN 9780736812085.
  10. Kurten, Bjorn (2017-07-12). Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress. Routledge. ISBN 9781351499323.
  11. Chodakiewicz, Marek Jan; Radzilowski, John. Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: The Borderlands of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9781412834933.
  12. 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.
  13. Radzilowski, John (2009-06-25). Poles in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 9780873517492.
  14. Radzilowski, John (2006-01-01). Minnesota. Interlink Books. ISBN 9781566565677.
  15. Radzilowski, John (2007). A Traveller's History of Poland. Interlink Books. ISBN 9781566566551.
  16. Radzilowski, John (2007). Ukrainian Americans. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 9781438107165.
  17. Ciment, James; Radzilowski, John (2015-03-17). American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change. Routledge. ISBN 9781317477167.
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