PIASA 2021 Awards

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The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) is pleased to announce the 2021 recipients of the following awards:

The Ludwik Krzyżanowski Award for best article published in The Polish Review in 2020:

  • Anna Muller, the Frank and Mary Padzieski Endowed Professor in Polish/Polish American/East European Studies, the University of Michigan-Dearborn, for “The Return: The Long Road Home of Female Concentration Camp Inmates” (vol. 65, no. 3).

The Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award:

  • Roman Koropeckyj, Professor of Slavic Languages, Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award:

  • Witold Nazarewicz, John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor and Chief Scientific Officer for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, for his outstanding contributions to the study of nuclear structure, reactions, and astrophysics.

The Oskar Halecki Polish History Award:

  • Molly Pucci, Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century European History, Trinity College Dublin, for her book Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe (Yale University Press, 2020) and Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, for The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1733-1795: Light and Flame (Yale University Press, 2020).

The Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award:

  • Witold F. Krajewski, Rose and Joseph Summers Chair in Water Research Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa, for his groundbreaking contributions to the field of flood research, particularly in flood prediction and flood risk reduction.

The Bronisław Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences:

  • Geneviève Zubrzycki, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, the Center for European Studies, and the Copernicus Program in Polish Studies, University of Michigan, for her widely recognized research contributions to the areas of national identity, collective memory and national mythology, and the contested place of religious symbols in the public sphere. Recipients of the inaugural Anna Cienciala (best edited book) and Rachel Feldhay Brenner (best book in Polish-Jewish studies) awards will be announced in January.