Visiting Professors
Fall 2024
Dr. Malwina Popiołek, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Social Communication, Institute of Culture, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: INTR 243W Media and Social Media in Poland and America
Spring 2024
Dr. Paulina Niechciał, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland and Skalny Visiting Professor
Course taught: INTR 242W: Identity in Poland, Tajikistan, and Iran
Fall 2023
Dr. Marcin Jarzabek, Associate Professor, Department of History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: IR 227-1/HIS 245A-1: War and Memory in Eastern Europe
Spring 2023
Dr. Piotr Kłodkowski, Professor at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland and Skalny Visiting Professor
Course taught: INTR 221-1 Nationalism, Central Europe, and the Russia-Ukraine War
Spring 2022
Dr. Jakub Czernik, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: ENGL 239-1, FMST 220-1, LTST 220-1, POLS 220-1 (P), Polish Literature, Film, and Culture: Local Perspectives, Global Ambitions
Fall 2021
Dr. Piotr Kłodkowski, Professor, Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: INTR 221 Nationalism vs. Liberalism
Spring 2020
Dr. Maciej Turek, Associate Professor, Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: IR 223: Opposition in Authoritarian State: Poland 1945-1989
Fall 2019
Dr. Marcin Jarzabek, Associate Professor, Department of History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: IR 221/HIS 223: European Nationalisms
Spring 2019
Dr. Piotr Kłodkowski, Professor, Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: IR 241 Polish Foreign Policy After Communism, 1989-2019
Fall 2018
Dr. Jakub Czernik, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: POL 220/FMS 220/ENG 262/LTS 220 Polish Literature, Film, and Culture: Local Perspectives, Global Amibitions
Spring 2018
Dr. Anna Maria Orla-Bukowska, Associate Professor, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Course taught: IR 231 Cold War - Europe Between US and the USSR
Fall 2017
Dr. Małgorzata Kołaczek, Assistant Professor, Institute of Intercultural Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Course taught: IR 240 Human Rights, Minorities, and the Migration in Europe
Spring 2017
Piotr Marecki, Assistant Professor, Institute of Culture, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: POL 268/FMS 268/POL 468 Post-1989 Polish Culture through Film, Literature, and Digital Media
Fall 2016
Magdalena Banaszkiewicz, Assistant Professor, Institute of Intercultural Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: ANT 284/POL 284 Anthropology of Tourism
Spring 2016
Marek Kucia, Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology and Lecturer at the Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: JST 225, POL 225 (P), POL 425 The Holocust and Its Memory in Eastern Europe
Fall 2015
Magdalena Modrzejewska, Associate Professor, Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: IR 216 Political Post-Communism
Fall 2014
Elżbieta Wiącek, Assistant Professor, Institute of Regional Studies, Department of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: POL 202/FMS 241 Polish Cinematography
Fall 2013
Michał Galas, Associate Professor at the Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: JST 210 Jewish Civilization in Poland
Spring 2013
Jan Lencznarowicz, Associate Professor of History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: HIS 116 Introduction to the History of Poland
Fall 2012
Anna Sliwińska, Associate Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Course taught: POL 202/FMS 241 Polish Cinematography
Spring 2012
Ognian Hishow, Senior researcher, German Institute for International Affairs (SWP), Berlin
Course taught: IR 232 Political Economy of Europe
Fall 2011
Anna Niedźwiedź, Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: HIS 116 Introduction to the History of Poland
Krzysztof Polakowski, Visiting Instructor
Courses taught: POL 101 Elementary Polish and POL 151 Intermediate Polish
Spring 2011
Piotr Sommer, famous Polish poet and translator of contemporary English poetry, editor of Literatura na Swiecie (World Literature)
Spring 2010
Magdalena Modrzejewska, Assistant Professor at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Course taught: IR 282 Eastern Europe: Philosophy and Reform
Krzysztof Polakowski, Visiting Instructor
Course taught: POL 102 Elementary Polish II and POL 152 Polish Review
Fall 2009
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Associate Professor at the Institute of History, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Course taught: IR 280 Communism and Democracy in Eastern Europe
Krzysztof Polakowski, Visiting Instructor
Courses taught: POL 101 Elementary Polish and POL 151 Intermediate Polish
Spring 2009
Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Course taught: PSC 260 The Cold War
Fall 2008
Ognian Hishow, Senior researcher, German Institute for International Affairs (SWP), Berlin
Course taught: PSC 254 Political Economy of Post-Communism
Spring 2008
Radosław Rybkowski, Associate Professor and Vice-Director of the Institute of America Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: HIS 116 History of Poland
Spring 2007
Wiesław Krajka, Professor of English literature at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin Poland. Currently, Kościuszko Foundation Fellow in the English Department at the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ and Skalny Center Visiting Professor
Course taught: ENG 243A Joseph Conrad, from January 17 until February 28
Fall 2006
Henryk Szlajfer, Ambassador, Department of Americas, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw, Poland
Course taught: PSC 260 Cold War, from October 10 until November 21
Spring 2006
Michal Galas, Adjunct/lecturer at the Department of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Course taught: JST 210 Jewish Civilization in Poland
Fall 2005
Radosław Rybkowski, Associate Professor and Vice-Director of the Institute of America Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Course taught: PSC 257 Poland in New Europe, from October 17 until December 12
Spring 2005
Krzysztof Zamorski, Professor at the Institute of History, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Courses taught: HIS 116 History of Poland, PSC 257 Poland in the New Europe (taught together with Prof. Ewa Hauser)
Fall 2004
Grzegorz Kolodko, John C. Evans Scholar in Polish Studies, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, Director of TIGER at the Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management, Polish Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance in 2002-03, First Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance in 1994-97
Courses tought: PSC 254 Political Economy of Post-Communism and PSC 256 Central European Political Economy
Spring 2004
Andrzej Mania, Professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations (Chair, History of Diplomacy Unit), Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Course tought: PSC 156 US Policy toward Eastern Europe during the Cold War 1945 - 1989
Spring 2003
Jan Lencznarowicz, Institute of Polish Diaspora and Ethnic Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Course taught: HIS 116 History of Poland
Fall 2002
Artur Gruszczak, Institute of Political Science and International Relations, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Course taught: PSC 292 Politics and Economics of Post-Communist Transformation