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About Piotr Kosicki

I teach at the University of Maryland and write about modern Central and Eastern Europe (and occasionally also France), with a particular focus on transnational approaches to Polish history and to Roman Catholicism.

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).

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Eastern European Studies May 4, 2022

Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh

Body, Belief, and Human Identity

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 profoundly original, fine-grained, and rich interpretation of the …
Eastern European Studies April 6, 2022

On the Edges of Whiteness

Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War

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 Eastern European countries – …
Eastern European Studies March 21, 2022

The Politics of Morality

The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland

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 could be terminated only in cases of rape, incest …
Eastern European Studies March 4, 2022

Survivors

Warsaw under Nazi Occupation

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 persecution, the ghettoization of the city's Jewish …
Catholic Studies February 21, 2022

Soldiers of God in a Secular World

Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics

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 examines the twentieth-century transformation of Roman Catholicism by tracing the …
Catholic Studies January 20, 2022

Kindred Spirits

Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism

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 global network of Catholic historians, theologians, poets …
Eastern European Studies January 12, 2022

The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland

Memory Wars and Homeland Anxieties

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 campaign of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism that swept through Poland …
Eastern European Studies December 15, 2021

Civility in Uncivil Times

Kazimierz Moczarski's Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison

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 Machcewicz offers a powerful case study in the …
Eastern European Studies October 20, 2021

Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles

The Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest

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 intimate ethnographic account of Białowieża, Europe's last primeval forest …