Piotr S. Wandycz

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Piotr Stefan Wandycz is a Polish-American historian, President of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America, and profesor emeritus at Yale University, specializing in Eastern and Central European history.

1 Biography
2 Works
3 References
4 Further reading

[edit] Biography

Born in Second Polish Republic, Piotr S. Wandycz left the country in 1939, they year that Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began. He studied at France (the Université of Grenoble) and United Kingdom (the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics). Later he moved to United States where he tought at Indiana University before coming to Yale University in 1966 as an associate professor. He was promoted to a full professorship in 1968 and was named the Bradford Durfee Professor in 1989. At Yale, he has served as director of graduate studies in Russian and East European studies and in history, chair of the Council on Russian and East European Studies and director of the Language and Area Center.

Piotr S. Wandycz is a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences; his many other honors include the Commander's Cross of Polonia Restituta and a honorary degree from Catholic University of Lublin.

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Piotr Wandycz is an oted authority on Eastern and Central European history. His many books include France and Her Eastern Allies, 1919-1925, which won the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize; The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936, which received the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; and The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present, which was a History Book Club selection in 1992.

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[edit] Further reading

M.B.B. Biskupski (Co-authored with Neal Pease and Anna Cienciala), "Piotr S. Wandycz - Pionier badan w Ameryce nad dziejami Polski i Europy srodkowo-wschodniej [Piotr S. Wandycz: A Pioneer in Research in America Concerning Poland and East Central Europe]" in Studia z Dziejow Rosji i Europy srodkowo-wschodniej 30 (1995): 5-13.