Tomasz Kamusella

Kamusella was educated at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Philology in Sosnowiec Campus (English language), Poland; Potchefstroom University (now part of the North-West University), Potchefstroom, South Africa;{{cite book|title="Living in the borderland" : colonialism and the clash of cultures in the fiction of J.M. Coetzee (Book, 1991) |publisher=WorldCat.org |date=9 April 2015 |oclc = 62288972}}{{cite thesis|url=http://millennium.nwu.ac.za/search~S4?/aKamuzela%2C+Thomasz+Dominik./akamuzela+thomasz+dominik/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=akamuzela+thomasz+dominik&1%2C1%2C |title=North-West University Library /All Locations |publisher=Millennium.nwu.ac.za |date=6 October 2010 |access-date=19 June 2015}} and the Central European University (co-accredited then by the Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom), Prague Campus,{{cite web |url=http://www.praguepost.cz/archivescontent/13126-central-european-university-to-leave-prague.html |title=Central European University to Leave Prague – The Prague Post |publisher=Praguepost.cz |access-date=19 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225155451/http://www.praguepost.cz/archivescontent/13126-central-european-university-to-leave-prague.html |archive-date=25 December 2014 |df=dmy-all }} Czech Republic. He obtained his doctor degree in political science from the Institute of Western Affairs (Instytut Zachodni), Poznań, Poland and habilitation in Cultural Studies from the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland.{{cite web|url=http://nauka-polska.pl/dhtml/raporty/ludzieNauki?rtype=opis&objectId=98473&lang=pl |title=Bazy danych – Nauka Polska |publisher=Nauka-polska.pl |date=22 November 2011 |access-date=19 June 2015}}

From 1994 to 1995, he taught in the Language Teachers' Training College (Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych), Opole, Poland, and between 1995 and 2007 at the University of Opole, Opole, Poland.{{cite web|url=http://www.ifw.uni.opole.pl/show.php?id=10&lang=pl |title=PUBLIKACJE – Instytut Slawistyki |publisher=Ifw.uni.opole.pl |access-date=19 June 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://usosweb.uni.opole.pl/kontroler.php?_action=actionx:katalog2/osoby/pokazOsobe%28os_id:25011%29 |title=Tomasz Kamusella – Studenci, pracownicy – USOSWeb – Uniwersytet Opolski |publisher=Usosweb.uni.opole.pl |access-date=19 June 2015}} From 2002 to 2006, he did postdoctoral research in the European University Institute, Florence, Italy; the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, United States;{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/newsletters/KlugeNewsletterSpring2009.pdf |title=Enewsletter : Message from the Director |publisher=Loc.gov |access-date=19 June 2015}} the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM), Vienna, Austria;{{cite web|url=http://www.iwm.at/the-institute/former-visiting-fellows/tomasz-kamusella/ |title=Tomasz Kamusella – IWM |publisher=Iwm.at |date=29 April 2013 |access-date=19 June 2015}} and the Herder-Institut (de), Marburg, Germany. As visiting professor, in 2007 to 2010, he taught Central and Eastern European History and Polish History and Politics in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland,{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/Admissions/undergraduate/assets/Copy%20of%20pdf/TCD_Undergraduate_courses_2011.pdf |title=Trinity College, Dublin : Undergraduate Courses 2011 |publisher=Tcd.ie |access-date=19 June 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/events/forthcoming/Kamusella.php |title=Trinity Long Room Hub : Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland |publisher=Tcd.ie |access-date=19 June 2015}} in 2010–11 at the Cracow University of Economics, Kraków, Poland;{{cite web|url=http://kse.uek.krakow.pl/index.php?action=pracownik&pracownik=tkamusella&lang=pol |title=Katedra Studiów Europejskich UEK |publisher=Kse.uek.krakow.pl |date=24 April 2015 |access-date=19 June 2015}} and in 2011 did research in the Slavic Research Center,{{cite web|url=http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/index-e.html |title=Slavic-Eurasian Research Center |publisher=Src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp |access-date=19 June 2015}} Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.{{cite web|url=http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/fvfp/index17.html |title=Src Fvfp List |publisher=Src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp |date=31 January 2014 |access-date=19 June 2015}} Since then, he teaches in the School of History (Centre for Transnational and Spatial History){{cite web|url=http://standrewstransnational.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/people/ |title=People | ITSH – Institute for Transnational & Spatial History |publisher=Standrewstransnational.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk |date=22 April 2015 |access-date=19 June 2015}} at the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.{{cite web|url=http://royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RHS-Fellows-K.pdf |title=Fellows – K |publisher=Royalhistsoc.org |access-date=19 June 2015}}

In 1996, he was employed as the Plenipotentiary on European Integration to the Regional Governor (Pełnomocnik Wojewody ds. Integracji Europejskiej) in the Regional Authority (Urząd Wojewódzki) of Opole.Integracja europejska a Śląsk Opolski [European Integration and Opole Silesia] (pp 6–12). 1997. Region Śląsk Opolski. No 1. Opole, Poland: Ośrodek Informatyki WBD UW. Later, from 1999 to 2002, he acted as Advisor on International Affairs to the Regional President (Doradca Marszałka ds. Współpracy z Zagranicą), Self-Governmental Regional Authority (Urząd Marszałkowski), Opole. In co-operation with the University of Opole, between 1997 and 2001, he managed the application in the European Commission, and financing that led to the establishment of the European Documentation Center in Opole.{{cite web|url=http://www.edc.uni.opole.pl |title=Centrum Dokumentacji Europejskiej |publisher=Edc.uni.opole.pl |access-date=19 June 2015}} Thanks to his 1998 official European Union Visitors Program visit to the Spanish Autonomous Community of Galicia, in 1999 a co-operation agreement was signed between this Spanish region and Opole Region.{{cite web|url=http://umwo.opole.pl/docs/porozumienie_galicja.pdf |title=Porozumienie o współpracy pomiędzy : Autonomiczną Wspólnotą Galicja w Królestwie Hiszpanii |publisher=Umwo.opole.pl |access-date=19 June 2015}}

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• A Dictionary of English Homophones with Explanations in Polish. 1992. Potchefstroom: Potchefstroom University and Katowice: Uniwersytet Slaski, 180pp.{{Cite web | url=https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/13358/Kamusella_1992_DictionaryofHomophones.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y | title=English Homophones | access-date=2024-04-16 | website=research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk}}
• The Dynamics of the Policies of Ethnic Cleansing in Silesia During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2000. Prague: Research Support Scheme, 710pp.{{Cite web | url=https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/4369/Dynamics_of_the_Policies_of_Ethnic_Cleansing_1999.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y | title=The Dynamics of the Policies of Ethnic Cleansing in Silesia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | website=research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk}}
• Silesia and Central European Nationalisms: The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia, 1848–1918. 2007. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 386 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-55753-371-5}}.{{cite journal|last1=Bjork|first1=James|title=Review|journal=The Journal of Modern History|volume=80|issue=4|year=2008|pages=954–956|issn=0022-2801|doi=10.1086/596694}}
• The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe. 2009. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 1168 pp. {{ISBN|9780230583474}}.Reviews of The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe:
• {{Cite journal |last= Dickins |first= Tom |year= 2013 |title= Review: The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe by Tomasz Kamusella | journal = The Slavonic and East European Review |volume= 91 |number= 4 |pages= 870–872 |jstor= 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.91.4.0870 |quote= authoritative … comprehensive and pioneering … an indispensable source of empirical material … highly significant and is unlikely to be surpassed in its breadth and erudition for a long time to come. |doi= 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.91.4.0870 }}
• {{Cite journal |last= Judson |first= P. M. |year= 2015 |title= The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe by Tomasz Kamusella |journal= American Historical Review |volume= 120 |number= 2 |pages= 737–738 |doi= 10.1093/ahr/120.2.737 |doi-access= free }}
• {{Cite journal |last= Spolsky |first= Bernard | journal=Language Policy |year= 2010 |title= Book Review: The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe by Tomasz Kamusella |volume= 9 |number= 4 |pages= 375–377 |doi= 10.1007/s10993-010-9168-1|s2cid= 143273650 }}
• {{Cite journal |last= Nic Craith |first= Máiréad |year= 2011 |title= The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe by Tomasz Kamusella |journal= Anthropological Journal of European Cultures |volume= 20 |number= 2 |pages= 138–141 |jstor= 43234449 }}

• Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium. 2015. Basingstoke: Palgrave Pivot, 168 pp.; {{ISBN|9781137507839}}.
• The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity. 2017. Basingstoke: Palgrave Pivot, 162 pp.; {{ISBN|9783319600352}}.
• Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War: The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria (Ser: Routledge Studies in Modern European History). 2018. London: Routledge, 328pp. {{ISBN|9781138480520}}.
• Limits / Styknie (bilingual, English-Silesian edition of short stories, translated from the English by Marcin Melon). 2019. (Ser: Ślōnski druk. Modernŏ literatura pō naszymu). Kotōrz Mały: Silesia Progress. {{ISBN|9788365558282}}, 324pp.
• (with Asnake Kefale and Christopher Van der Beken) Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia: From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation. 2021. London: Routledge, 162pp. {{ISBN|9781003158097}} {{doi| 10.4324/9781003158097}}
• Politics and the Slavic Languages. 2021. London: Routledge, 350 pp. {{ISBN|9780367569846}} {{doi|10.4324/9781003100188}}
• [https://muse.jhu.edu/book/97875 Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe]. 2021. Budapest and New York: CEU Press, 310pp & 42 full color maps. {{ISBN|9789633864173}}

• (edited with Wojciech Burszta and Sebastian Wojciechowski) Nationalisms Across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms in State-Endowed and Stateless Nations (Vol 1: Europe). 2005. Poznań: Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, 502pp. {{ISBN|83-87653-51-9}}, {{ISBN|83-87653-41-1}}
• (edited with Wojciech Burszta and Sebastian Wojciechowski) Nationalisms Across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms in State-Endowed and Stateless Nations (Vol. 2: The World). 2006. Poznań: Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, 558pp. {{ISBN|83-87653-51-9}}, {{ISBN|83-87653-41-1}}
• (edited with Krzysztof Jaskułowski) Nationalisms Today. 2009. Oxford: Peter Lang. 334pp. {{ISBN|9783039118830}}
• (edited with Motoki Nomachi) The Multilingual Society of Vojvodina: Intersecting Borders, Cultures and Identities. 2014. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University. {{ISBN|9784938637781}}.
• (edited with James Bjork, Tim Wilson and Anna Novikov) Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880–1950: Modernity, Violence and (Be)longing in Upper Silesia (Ser: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe, Vol 25). 2016. London: Routledge, 252pp. {{ISBN|9780415835961}}.
• (edited with Motoki Nomachi and Catherine Gibson) The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders. 2016. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 582pp. {{ISBN|9781137348388}}
• (edited with Motoki Nomachi and Catherine Gibson). Central Europe Through the Lens of Language and Politics: On the Sample Maps from the Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe (Ser: Slavic Eurasia Papers, Vol 10). 2017. Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, 111pp +10 maps. {{ISBN|9784938637910}}
• (edited with Finex Ndhlovu) The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages. 2018. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 412pp. {{ISBN|9781137015921}} {{doi|10.1057/978-1-137-01593-8}}

• W bżuhu vieloryba [In a Whale's Belly, a collection of essays on nationalism and language politics in Asia, the Balkans and Central Europe. Introduction by Prof Wojciech J Burszta]. 2006. Toruń, Poland: Wydawnictwo A Marszałek, 305 pp. {{ISBN|978-83-7441-383-1}}.

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