| Full name | Anna M. Cienciala |
|---|---|
| Born | November 8, 1929 Free City of Danzig |
| Main interests | Eastern-European history |
| Major works | A Crime without Punishment |
Anna M. Cienciala (1929-) is a Polish-American historian and author. She specializes in modern Polish and Russian history. Graduating with a history doctorate in 1962, she taught at two Canadian universities for a few years before joining the history faculty at the University of Kansas in 1965. She retired in 2002.
Anna M. Cienciala was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) on November 8, 1929. She was educated in Poland and France. Cienciala received a Bachelor of Arts from Liverpool University in 1952, a Master of Arts from McGill University in 1955, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1962.
She taught courses in Eastern European history – with focus on modern Polish and Russian history – at the University of Ottawa and the University of Toronto in Canada, before landing a long-term career in the U.S. at the University of Kansas in 1965. As an author, Cienciala has published two books; prepared four books as an editor, and has written around forty academic articles in various American, German, and Polish historical journals. She retired as Professor Emeritus in June, 2002. In 2007 Cienciala published a major scientific volume together with two other historians, A Crime without Punishment, which explores the historiography of the Katyn massacre.
Cienciala is a member of a number of professional associations in Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She has received awards from the NEH, Fulbright, IREX, ACLS and the Hall Center at K.U.[1] She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, and received the Polish Cross of Merit. She is the subject of a 2000 biography published by Gdańsk University, edited by Marek Andrzejewski.[2]