Piotr H. Kosicki
Former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, East European Studies
Professional Affiliation
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park
Expert Bio
Piotr H. Kosicki is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland. Recipient of a PhD from Princeton, he has published widely on the history of the Catholic Church, on the intellectual entanglements of Poland and France, and on the Cold War, including Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and 鈥淩evolution,鈥 1891-1956 (Yale, 2018) and, as editor, Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism (2019, with M. Gehler and H. Wohnout), Christian Democracy across the Iron Curtain (2018, with S. 艁ukasiewicz), The Long 1989 (2019, with K. Kunakhovich), and Vatican II behind the Iron Curtain (2016). His essays have appeared in Commonweal, The TLS, and the Washington Post.
乐鱼 体育 Project
鈥淏etween Christ and Lenin: Catholicism, Poland, and the Specter of Communism, 1891-1991鈥
Major Publications
An edited volume entitled Re-mapping Polish-German Historical Memory: Physical, Political, and Literary Spaces (Bloomington, 2011).
鈥淟es lieux de m茅moire polonaise de Katy艅 : d鈥檜ne f么ret 脿 un mus茅e, 1943-2010,鈥 in David El Kenz and Fran莽ois-Xavier N茅rard, eds, Comm茅morer les victimes en Europe : XVIe-XXIe si猫cles (Paris, 2011).
A forthcoming chapter on Catholicism and the Cold War in the new Routledge Handbook of the Cold War.
A forthcoming monograph entitled Between Christ and Lenin: Poland, Catholicism, and the Global History of Social Justice, 1891-1991.
Previous Terms
May 13, 2013 - Aug 30, 2013: 鈥淓urope between Catechism and Revolution: Catholicism, Poland, and the Specter of Communism, 1891-1991.鈥 May 10, 2012 - June 31, 2012
