John Radzilowski

{{Short description|American historian}}

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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 a professor of history at the University of Alaska Southeast.{{Cite web|url=http://www.uas.alaska.edu/dir/jtradzilowski.html|title=John Radzilowski|website=University of Alaska Southeast|language=en|access-date=2021-05-26}}

Career

In 1999, Radzilowski received his PhD from the Arizona State University. 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.

Radzilowski is a fellow of the Piast Institute and is past president of the Polish American Cultural Institute of Minnesota.{{Cite web|url=http://www.piastinstitute.org/johnradzilowski.html|title=John Radzilowski|website=www.piastinstitute.org|access-date=2019-01-25|archive-date=November 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103072250/http://www.piastinstitute.org/johnradzilowski.html|url-status=dead}} 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.

He is a professor of history at the University of Alaska Southeast, Department of Social Science, where teaches European, U.S. and world history, geography and art history.

Awards

In 1998 he received Cavaliers Cross of the Polish Order of Merit.{{Cite web|url=http://prawo.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/download.xsp/WMP19990050052/O/M19990052.pdf|title=Monitor Polski Nr.5|last=Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej|date=1998|website=prawo.sejm.gov.pl}}

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

In 2008, he was awarded the Miecislaus Haiman Award for "sustained contribution to the study of Polish Americans" by the Polish American Historical Association.{{cite web |url=http://polishamericanstudies.org/text/29/haiman-award.html |title=Miecislaus Haiman Award |access-date=2019-01-22 |publisher=Polish American Historical Association }}

Books

  • Out on the Wind. Poles and Danes in Lincoln County. (1992, 1995){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6t6JSxB3Ir0C&q=Out+on+the+Wind.+Poles+and+Danes+in+Lincoln+County.|title=Out on the Wind: Poles and Danes in Lincoln County, Minnesota, 1880-1905|last1=Radzilowski|first1=John|last2=Mahal|first2=Jennifer|date=1992|publisher=Crossings Press|isbn=9780961411947|language=en}}
  • 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){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rsoLAAAAYAAJ&q=to+Call+It+Home.+The+New+Immigrants+of+Southwestern+Minnesota|title=To Call it Home: The New Immigrants of Southwestern Minnesota|last1=Amato|first1=Joseph Anthony|last2=Meyer|first2=John W.|date=1996-01-01|publisher=Crossings Press|isbn=9780961411978|language=en}}
  • Prairie Town. A History of Marshall, Minnesota 1872–1997. (1997){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G5zkGwAACAAJ&q=John+Radzilowski|title=Prairie Town: A History of Marshall, Minnesota, 1872-1997|last=Radzilowski|first=John|date=1997|publisher=Lyon County Historical Society|language=en}}
  • 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){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uYFeeYMui2UC&q=Polish+Immigrants%2C+1890%E2%80%931920+with+Rosemary+Wallner.+Coming+to+America+Series|title=Polish Immigrants, 1890-1920|last=Wallner|first=Rosemary|date=2003|publisher=Capstone|isbn=9780736812085|language=en}}
  • Poland’s Transformation. A Work in Progress. (2003) (co-author with Marek Jan Chodakiewicz i Dariusz Tołczyk){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zx0uDwAAQBAJ&q=Poland%E2%80%99s+Transformation.+A+Work+in+Progress|title=Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress|last=Kurten|first=Bjorn|date=2017-07-12|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781351499323|language=en}}
  • Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism. The Borderlands of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (2003) (co-author with Marek Jan Chodakiewicz){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-ow6DEQOBoC&q=Spanish+Carlism+and+Polish+Nationalism.+The+Borderlands+of+Europe+in+the+Nineteenth+and+Twentieth+Centuries|title=Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: The Borderlands of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries|last1=Chodakiewicz|first1=Marek Jan|last2=Radzilowski|first2=John|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=9781412834933|language=en}}
  • The Eagle and the Cross. A History of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America 1873–2000. (2003){{cite journal |title=Review | last =Walaszek | first =Adam | journal =Journal of American Ethnic History | volume =24 | issue =2 | pages =119–120 |date =Winter 2005 | doi =10.2307/27501575 |jstor =27501575 | s2cid =254494118 |quote=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. }}
  • Poles in Minnesota. (2005){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2DOHhitMI0C&q=John+Radzilowski|title=Poles in Minnesota|last=Radzilowski|first=John|date=2009-06-25|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|isbn=9780873517492|language=en}}
  • Minnesota. On the Road History Series. (2006){{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesota0000radz|url-access=registration|title=Minnesota|last=Radzilowski|first=John|date=2006-01-01|publisher=Interlink Books|isbn=9781566565677|language=en}}
  • Travellers History of Poland. (2007, 2013){{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/travellershistor00radz|url-access=registration|title=A Traveller's History of Poland|last=Radzilowski|first=John|date=2007|publisher=Interlink Books|isbn=9781566566551|language=en}}
  • The New Immigrants: Ukrainians Americans (Series editor: Robert D. Johnston) (2007){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ILr7RHRbh4MC&q=John+Radzilowski|title=Ukrainian Americans|last=Radzilowski|first=John|date=2007|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=9781438107165|language=en}}
  • American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social and Cultural Change. (2014) (edited with James Ciment){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PPFnBwAAQBAJ&q=John+Radzilowski|title=American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change|last1=Ciment|first1=James|last2=Radzilowski|first2=John|date=2015-03-17|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317477167|language=en}}
  • 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

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