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:

Adam Zamoyski, "Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess" (William Collins, 2024)

August 24, 2024

Izabela the Valiant

Adam Zamoyski
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

Princess Izabela Czartoryska was a towering figure of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century European cultural and intellectual life. Married a…

Jaime M. Pensado, "Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico" (U California Press, 2023)

May 12, 2024

Love and Despair

Jaime M. Pensado
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

The 21st century has witnessed a revolution in how historians approach the study of Roman Catholicism. Long trapped in an unbridgeable chasm between c…