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About Piotr Kosicki
I am Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. I've written Catholics on the Barricades (Yale, 2018) and edited, among others, Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century (with Wolfram Kaiser).
I also write occasionally for Commonweal, the Nation, and the Washington Post, and serve as Associate Editor of Canadian Slavonic Papers.
Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Catholics on the Barricades (Yale, 2018) and editor, among others, of Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century (with Wolfram Kaiser).
NBN Episodes hosted by Piotr:
August 24, 2024
Izabela the Valiant
Princess Izabela Czartoryska was a towering figure of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century European cultural and intellectual life. Married a…
May 12, 2024
Love and Despair
The 21st century has witnessed a revolution in how historians approach the study of Roman Catholicism. Long trapped in an unbridgeable chasm between c…
May 10, 2024
Rethinking Modern Polish Identities
Anti-Semitic or philo-Semitic? Backward or modern? Locally rooted or diasporic? “Polishness” is too often flattened to an oversimplified list of eithe…
April 14, 2024
Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland
How embedded are the dignity and personhood of the elderly in the collective memory of their nation? In Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memor…
March 17, 2024
The Counterfeit Countess
World War II and the Holocaust have been the subject of many remarkable stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Wom…
December 14, 2023
Journeys of the Mind
Over the past seven decades, Peter Brown has transformed our collective understanding of the late Roman Empire and the European Middle Ages alike, est…
December 3, 2023
Sacred Foundations
In Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State (Princeton University Press, 2023), political scientist Anna Grzymała-Bu…
July 12, 2023
Stalin As Warlord
The Second World War was arguably the defining moment in the history of the Soviet Union. In Stalin as Warlord (Yale University Press, 2022), eminent …
June 30, 2023
An Ordinary Life?
With An Ordinary Life? The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996 (Ohio University Press, 2023), historian Anna Müller has produced a beautifully writt…
May 16, 2023
Think Tank Aesthetics
In her groundbreaking and timely book Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present (MIT Press, 2020), disting…
April 16, 2023
Auschwitz
Auschwitz is perhaps the best-known memorial site in the world. Epicenter of the Nazi extermination campaign of Europe’s Jewish population, the Auschw…
March 1, 2023
Communism's Public Sphere
In Communism’s Public Sphere: Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany (Cornell University Press, 2022), historian Kyrill Kunakhovich e…
February 3, 2023
Resurrecting the Jew
Since the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival. Klezmer music, Jewish-style restaurants, kosher vodka, and festivals of Jew…
January 25, 2023
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
In the midst of the Second World War, Central and East European governments-in-exile struggled to make their voices heard as they reported back to the…
November 11, 2022
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
In Heathen: Religion and Race in American History (Harvard University Press, 2022), Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the “heathen” has been maint…
November 8, 2022
The Other '68ers
Anna von der Goltz’s The Other ‘68ers: Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany (Oxford University Press, 2021) is a history of 1968 wr…
October 7, 2022
The World That Latin America Created
The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era (Harvard University Press, 2022)…
June 23, 2022
Jozef Pilsudski
In the 1920s, Józef Piłsudski was a household name not just in Poland, but across Europe and across the Atlantic Ocean as well. Yet this complex and c…
May 4, 2022
Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh
In Czesław Miłosz’s Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Oxford University Press, 2021), Cambridge professor Stanley Bill offers a pr…
April 6, 2022
On the Edges of Whiteness
As the horrors of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine unfold before our eyes, we have witnessed a massive wave of refugees absorbed by a range of Easter…
March 21, 2022
The Politics of Morality
In the fall of 2020, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal decreed that the country’s near-total ban on abortion was too liberal; henceforth, pregnancies c…
March 4, 2022
Survivors
Survivors tells the harrowing story of life in Warsaw under Nazi occupation. As the epicenter of Polish resistance, Warsaw was subjected to violent pe…
February 21, 2022
Soldiers of God in a Secular World
In Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics (Harvard University Press, 2021), Sarah Shortall examin…
January 20, 2022
Kindred Spirits
In Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Brenna Moore takes us inside a g…