The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) is pleased to announce its 2020 award recipients:
The Ludwik Krzyżanowski Award for best article published in The Polish Review in 2019:
Dr. Anna Krakus, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, for “Death is Merely a Comma: Immortality in the Cinema and Literature of Tadeusz Konwicki” (vol. 64, no. 4).
The Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award:
Dr. Anna Frajlich-Zając, Senior Lecturer Emerita of Polish Language and Literature, Columbia University for her many contributions to Polish culture in poetry, prose, and literary studies extending over several decades.
The Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award:
Dr. Henryk Iwaniec, Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers University, for his outstanding contributions to analytic number theory.
The Oskar Halecki Polish History Award:
Dr. Dominic A. Pacyga, Professor Emeritus, Columbia College (Chicago), for his book American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Polish Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2019).
The Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award:
Dr. Władek Minor, Harrison Distinguished Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia and Dr. Zbyszek Otwinowski, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, for their development of software for the medical applications of crystallograghy and their entrepreneurship in promoting its distribution.
The Wacław Lednicki Award in the Humanities:
Dr. Grażyna J. Kozaczka, Distinguished Professor of English, Cazenovia College, for her book Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction (Ohio University Press, 2019).
The Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences:
Dr. Anna Grzymala-Busse, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies, Stanford University, for her outstanding scholarship on the development and transformation of the state, political parties, religion and politics, and post-communist politics in Poland and East-Central Europe.