News from Visiting Faculty
Dr. Magdalena Banaszkiewicz (Fall 2016) has become a principal investigator of 2 grants from the National Centre for Research and Development, co-financed by the European Union: Intercultural Relationships in Tourism and Intercultural Competences in Tourism. She has co-edited a book, After the Iron Curtain: Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe, forthcoming from Lexington Books. She has been recognized as “the best teacher of the Department of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University,” for the academic year 2016-2017. Last but not least, she is expecting a second child in August.
Dr. Marek Kucia (Spring 2016) applied for the title of Professor and received the approval of the Faculty Council of his Department at Jagiellonian University. He is waiting for the final decision by the Polish Central Qualification Commission for Degrees and Titles. In 2016, he published an article, “Holocaust memorials in Central and Eastern Europe: Communist legacies, transnational influences and national developments,” in Remembrance and Solidarity: Studies in 20th Century History, Issue no. 5: Holocaust/Shoah, edited by Dan Michman and Matthias Weber, 159–184.
Dr. Magdalena Modrzejewska (Fall 2015, Spring 2010), in 2016 published her book, Stephen Pearl Andrews - Anarchia i społeczeństwo. Studia z Amerykańskiego anarchizmu indiwidualistycznego (Stephen Pearl Andrews - Anarchy and society. Studies in American individualist anarchism). The publisher was Księgarnia Akademicka in Kraków.
Dr Elżbieta Wiącek (Fall 2014) has been awarded the Ars Quaerendi Prize by the Malopolska Voivodeship (Region). In 2015 she published two edited volumes. The prize-winning project was an edited collection of essays covering cultural codes of the Małopolska region, Elżbieta Wiącek, ed., Semiotic Map of Małopolska, (Kraków 2015), and the second was M. Banaś and Elżbieta Wiącek, eds., Symbols of contemporary culture (Kraków 2015).
Dr. Anna Śliwińska (Fall 2012) has just received her habilitation degree. She has published a book Love and Anger. The British New Wave (Wydawnictwo Naukowe, UAM), and from 2012 till 2015 was a co- investigator (with Professor Małgorzata Hendrykowska) on the grant Historia polskiego filmu dokumentalnego [History of Polish Documentary Films]. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in English.
Dr. Radosław Rybkowski (Spring 2005 and 2008) has been, since September 2016, the director of the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University. In January 2016 he was named a member of the Polish Accreditation Committee (the statutory body responsible for quality assurance in higher education) by the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education. Along with his colleagues, Dr. Rybkowski is responsible for accrediting programs of studies in the field of law and social science.
