Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

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Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (born in 1962 in Warsaw, Poland) is an American historian specializing in East Central European history of the 19th and 20th century.

He earned B.A. degree from the San Francisco State University in 1988, MPhil from Columbia University, and Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University in 2001. His Ph.D. thesis was titled: Accommodation and Resistance: A Polish County Krasnik during the Second World War and its Aftermath, 1939-1947. Between 2001 and 2003 he was an assistant professor with the Kosciuszko Chair in Polish Studies at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. Since 2003 Chodakiewicz is a Professor of History at the Institute of World Politics[1] in Washington, DC where he teaches and conducts research on East Central Europe and Russia. In April 2005 Chodakiewicz was appointed by President George W. Bush for a 5-year term to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Chodakiewicz specializes in East Central European history of the 19th and 20th century including the history of Poland, Habsburg and Romanov Empires, Jewish-Polish relations, environmental politics, intellectual conservative tradition, and extremist movements, including communists and fascists. His special area of interest is World War II and its aftermath.

Contents 1 Awards and Distinctions 2 Publications 3 Books 4 Related Links

[edit] Awards and Distinctions

• Richard Hofstadter Fellowship (1989-1994), Columbia University
• The Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Research Grant (2001)
• 2003 Józef Mackiewicz Literary Award
• The Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant (2004)

[edit] Publications

• The Last Rising in the Eastern Borderlands: The Ejszyszki Epilogue in its Historical Context, 2002.
• Restytucja: The Problems of Property Restitution in Poland (1939-2001). 2003.
• Dr. C Witnesses Triumph of Feudalism in Moscow, 2004.
• The Warsaw Uprising, 1944: Perceptions and Reality, 2004.
• The Dialectics of Pain: The Interrogation Methods of the Communist Secret Police in Poland, 1944-1955, 2004
• Poland Divided: Spatial Differences in the June 2003 EU Accession Referendum, 2005.
• Review of Sowjetische Partisanen in Weißrußland, Sarmatian Review, April 2006

[edit] Books

• 2000: Żydzi i Polacy 1918-1955: Współistnienie, Zagłada, Komunizm (Jews and Poles 1918-1955: Coexistence, Holocaust, Communism, Fronda, ISBN 83-912541-8-6, (in Polish).
• 2003: Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: The Borderlands of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Leopolis Press, ISBN 0-9679960-5-8.
• 2003: After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Relations in the Wake of World War II, East European Monographs, ISBN 0-88033-511-4.
• 2003: Co-editor: Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress, Leopolis Press, ISBN 967996023.
• 2004: Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947, Lexington Books, ISBN 0-7391-0484-5.
• 2005: The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After, Columbia University Press and East European Monographs, ISBN 0-88033-554-8.

[edit] Related Links

• After the Holocaust:Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War II, The Sarmatian Review, January 2004 book review
• After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War II book review
• Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947 book review
• Ordinary Terror: Communist and Nazi Occupation Policies in Jedwabne, 1939-1949 lecture
• The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After book review