Visiting Professors

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 University of Rochester 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, University of Rochester, 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