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:

Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, "The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

March 17, 2024

The Counterfeit Countess

Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

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…

Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History" (Princeton UP, 2023)

December 14, 2023

Journeys of the Mind

Peter Brown
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

Over the past seven decades, Peter Brown has transformed our collective understanding of the late Roman Empire and the European Middle Ages alike, est…

Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)

December 3, 2023

Sacred Foundations

Anna M. Grzymała-Busse
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

In Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State (Princeton University Press, 2023), political scientist Anna Grzymała-Bu…

Alfred J. Rieber, "Stalin As Warlord" (Yale UP, 2022)

July 12, 2023

Stalin As Warlord

Alfred J. Rieber
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
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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 …

Anna Müller, "An Ordinary Life?: The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996" (Ohio UP, 2023)

June 30, 2023

An Ordinary Life?

Anna Müller
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
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With An Ordinary Life? The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996 (Ohio University Press, 2023), historian Anna Müller has produced a beautifully writt…

Pamela M. Lee, "Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present" (MIT Press, 2020)

May 16, 2023

Think Tank Aesthetics

Pamela M. Lee
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

In her groundbreaking and timely book Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present (MIT Press, 2020), disting…

Piotr M. A. Cywiński, "Auschwitz: A Monograph on the Human" (Muzeum Auschwitz, 2022)

April 16, 2023

Auschwitz

Piotr M. A. Cywiński
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

Auschwitz is perhaps the best-known memorial site in the world. Epicenter of the Nazi extermination campaign of Europe’s Jewish population, the Auschw…

Kyrill Kunakhovich, "Communism's Public Sphere: Culture As Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany" (Cornell UP, 2023)

March 1, 2023

Communism's Public Sphere

Kyrill Kunakhovich
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

In Communism’s Public Sphere: Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany (Cornell University Press, 2022), historian Kyrill Kunakhovich e…

Geneviève Zubrzycki, "Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival" (Princeton UP, 2022)

February 3, 2023

Resurrecting the Jew

Geneviève Zubrzycki
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

Since the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival. Klezmer music, Jewish-style restaurants, kosher vodka, and festivals of Jew…

Michael Fleming, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

January 25, 2023

In the Shadow of the Holocaust

Michael Fleming
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

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…

Kathryn Gin Lum, "Heathen: Religion and Race in American History" (Harvard UP, 2022)

November 11, 2022

Heathen: Religion and Race in American History

Kathryn Gin Lum
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

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…

Anna von der Goltz, "The Other '68ers: Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany" (Oxford UP, 2021)

November 8, 2022

The Other '68ers

Anna von der Goltz
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

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…

Margarita Fajardo, "The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era" (Harvard UP, 2021)

October 7, 2022

The World That Latin America Created

Margarita Fajardo
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era (Harvard University Press, 2022)…

Joshua D. Zimmerman, "Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland" (Harvard UP, 2022)

June 23, 2022

Jozef Pilsudski

Joshua D. Zimmerman
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

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…

Stanley Bill, "Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)

May 4, 2022

Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh

Stanley Bill
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

In Czesław Miłosz’s Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity (Oxford University Press, 2021), Cambridge professor Stanley Bill offers a pr…

Jochen Lingelbach, "On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War" (Berghahn Books, 2020)

April 6, 2022

On the Edges of Whiteness

Jochen Lingelbach
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

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…

Joanna Mishtal, "The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland" (Ohio UP, 2015)

March 21, 2022

The Politics of Morality

Joanna Mishtal
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

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…

Jadwiga Biskupska, "Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

March 4, 2022

Survivors

Jadwiga Biskupska
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

Survivors tells the harrowing story of life in Warsaw under Nazi occupation. As the epicenter of Polish resistance, Warsaw was subjected to violent pe…

Sarah Shortall, "Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics" (Harvard UP, 2021)

February 21, 2022

Soldiers of God in a Secular World

Sarah Shortall
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

In Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics (Harvard University Press, 2021), Sarah Shortall examin…

Brenna Moore, "Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

January 20, 2022

Kindred Spirits

Brenna Moore
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

In Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Brenna Moore takes us inside a g…

Anat Plocker, "The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties" (Indiana UP, 2022)

January 12, 2022

The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland

Anat Plocker
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

In The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties (Indiana University Press, 2022), Anat Plocker examines the campaig…

Anna Machcewicz, "Civility in Uncivil Times: Kazimierz Moczarski's Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison" (Peter Lang, 2020)

December 15, 2021

Civility in Uncivil Times

Anna Machcewicz
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

In Civility in Uncivil Times: Kazimierz Moczarski’s Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison (Peter Lang, 2020), Anna …

Eunice Blavascunas, "Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest" (Indiana UP, 2020)

October 20, 2021

Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles

Eunice Blavascunas
Hosted by Piotr Kosicki

In Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe’s Last Primeval Forest (Indiana University Press, 2020), Eunice Blavascunas provides an …