The 9th World Congress of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America (PIASA) will be hosted by Collegium Civitas in Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and Science from June 7-9, 2024. During the Congress the PIASA Awards will be presented. The list of Awards recipients has just been announced by PIASA!
The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) is pleased to recognize and congratulate the recipients of its 2023 Awards:
Ludwik Krzyżanowski Polish Review Best Article Award: Vitalii Borymskyi, Institute of History of Ukraine, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, “The Polish-Ukrainian Alliance of 1920 and ‘White Russia’,” The Polish Review, 67, 2 (March 2022): 64-85.
Bronisław Malinowski Social Sciences Award: Tomasz Zarycki, University of Warsaw, for his book The Polish Elite and the Language Sciences: A Perspective of Global Historical Sociology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award: Alex Wlodawer, National Institutes of Health, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of structural biology.
Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award: Tomasz Wierzbicki, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of mechanical engineering.
Oskar Halecki Polish History Award: Małgorzata Fidelis, University of Illinois-Chicago, for her book Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland (Oxford University Press, 2022). Honorable Mention: Kyrill Kunakhovich, University of Virginia, for his book Communism’s Public Sphere: Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany (Cornell University Press, 2022).
Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award in Polish-Jewish Studies: Yechiel Weizman, Bar-Ilan University, for his book Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland’s Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2022), and Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan, for her book Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival (Princeton University Press, 2022).
Anna M. Cienciala Best Edited Book Award: Irena Grudzińska Gross and Konrad Matyjaszek, both from the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, for Breaking the Frame: New School of Polish-Jewish Studies. An Introduction (Peter Lang, 2022). Honorable Mention: Katarzyna Fazan, Jagiellonian University, Michal Kobialka, University of Minnesota, and Bryce Lease, Royal Holloway, University of London, for A History of Polish Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Susanne Lotarski Distinguished Achievement Award: Larry Wolff, New York University.
The Karol Pilarczyk Foundation Award for the Promotion of Democracy and the Rule of Law: Agnieszka Holland, filmmaker, and Wojciech Sadurski, University of Sydney.
More information about PIASA 9th World Congress:
https://civitas.edu.pl/en/our-university/news/piasa-world-congress-second-call-for-papers