Piotr H. Kosicki

ACLS New Faculty Fellow and Lecturer (2012)

Associate Director, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES)

Office Hours: T 1-3pm

Office: Nau Hall 356

Phone: (434) 924-6407

Email: kosicki (at) virginia.edu

Fields & Specialties

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2011

M.A., Princeton University, 2008

B.A., Stanford University, 2005

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

Europe between Catechism and Revolution: Catholicism, Poland, and the Social Question, 1891-1991 (in preparation)

Rewolucyjni katolicy: personalizm, socjalizm i europejskie więzi polskiej inteligencji katolickiej, 1939-1956 (Manuscript in press, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, planned for 2014 release)

Edited Volumes 

A Global 1989? Connections Across Continents and Oceans in a Revolutionary World, Co-Editor, with Stephen Kotkin, Kyrill Kunakhovich, and Jeremy Friedman, Manuscript currently under review by Yale University Press

Re-mapping Polish-German Historical Memory: Physical, Political, and Literary Spaces since World War II, Co-Editor, with Justyna Beinek (Bloomington, IN: Slavica/Indiana Slavic Studies, 2011)

International Journal of Sociology 37:1 (Spring 2007), Issue Title: Aggressors, Victims, and Trauma in Collective Memory, Guest Co-Editor, with Aleksandra Jasińska-Kania

Academic Articles

“Czym jest polska inteligencja katolicka? Personalizm, solidarność i międzynarodówka intelektualistów katolickich,” Więź 1/2013 [Forthcoming]

“Pluralism, Reform, and the Path to ‘Civil Society’: Polish Elite Thinking about the Political and the Social from Martial Law to the Round Table,” Rocznik Instytutu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej 10 (2012) [Forthcoming].

“Caritas across the Iron Curtain? Polish-German Reconciliation and the Bishops’ Letter of 1965,” East European Politics and Societies 23:2 (Spring 2009).

“L’avènement des intellectuels catholiques : le mensuel Więź et les conséquences polonaises du personnalisme français,” Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire 102 (April-June 2009).

“Tragédia antitotalitariánov: Pokus o historiografickú katharsis,” Forum Historiae 2/2009.

“The Katyń Massacres,” Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, CERI/Sciences Po (2008).

“Promieniowanie personalizmu. Mounier, Esprit i początki Więzi,” Więź 2-3/2008.

“Image et réalité : la mythologisation française de la Démocratie chrétienne de l’après-guerre,” Chrétiens et sociétés. XVIe-XXe siècles 12 (2005).

“Poland’s Uncertain Future: Politicized Religion and European Integration,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 4:2 (Summer/Fall 2003).

Book Chapters

“The Legacy of Polish Christian Democracy: Questions, Materials, and Methods for Research,” in Jean-Dominique Durand, ed, Christian Democratic Internationalism: Its Action in Europe and Worldwide from Post-World War II until the ‘90s (Forthcoming).

“The Roman Catholic Church and the Cold War,” in Artemy Kalinovsky and Craig Daigle, eds, Routledge Handbook of the Cold War (Routledge, 2013).

“Surmontant le POLAK-KATOLIK : jalons pour une historiographie transnationale du religieux,” in Jean-Dominique Durand, ed, Le monde de l’histoire religieuse (RESEA-Lyon, 2012).

“Les lieux de mémoire polonaise de Katyń : d’une fôret à un musée, 1943-2010,” in David El Kenz and François-Xavier Nérard, eds, Commémorer les victimes en Europe : XVIe-XXIe siècles (Éditions Champ Vallon, 2011).

 “Polen und Deutschland: Die Wahlen 2005 und die Veränderungen in der politischen Instrumentalisierung der Agressor-Opfer-Problematik,” in Dieter Bingen, Peter Oliver Loew, and Kazimierz Wóycicki, eds, Die Destruktion des Dialogs. Zur innenpolitischen Instrumentalisierung negativer Fremdbilder und Feindbilder. Polen, Tschechien, Niederlande, Deutschland (Harrassowitz, 2007).

Book Reviews

Review of Richard Butterwick, The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792: A Political History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) in Journal of Modern History (Forthcoming).

Review of Idesbald Goddeeris, ed, Solidarity with Solidarity: Western European Trade Unions and the Polish Crisis, 1980-1982 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010) in Journal of Contemporary History, 47:3 (July 2012).

Review of Jay Bergman, Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009) in Cold War History, 11:3 (August 2011).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Invited Talks

“Work and the Human Person: John Paul II, Solidarity, and Social Justice,” Blanka Rosenstiel Endowed Lecture on Poland, Florida International University, Miami, 4 December 2012.

“Between Catechism and Revolution: Understanding the 20^th-Century Polish Experience of Catholicism and Socialism as a Path to the Papacy of John Paul II,” Istituto Luigi Sturzo/Council for European Studies, Rome, 27 September 2012.

“Religion and Intellectual History,” 2012 Kandersteg Seminar of New York University’s Remarque Institute, Kandersteg, Switzerland, 31 March 2012.

“The Transnational Politics of the Human Person: Catholic Laity between Poland and France, Belgium, and Germany, 1946-1980,” KADOC Research Center, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 28 October 2010.

 “Peace and the Human Person: The ‘Foreign Policy’ of the Polish Catholic Intelligentsia Clubs with France, Belgium, and West Germany, 1956-1978,” IDEAS Research Center, London School of Economics, 9 March 2010.

Conference Papers

“Between Christian Democracy and Catholic Socialism: Reframing the Transnational Catholic Politics of the Social Question,” Workshop on the Political Languages of Christian Democracy, University Centre for Human Values, Princeton University, 7-8 December 2012

“Communist Poland and Vatican II,” UVA Polish Lecture Series Conference on The Second Vatican Council and Communism, University of Virginia, 1 December 2012

“In God’s Image: Labor, Personhood, and the Worker-Priests’ Significance for the Young Karol Wojtyła,” 44th Annual Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, New Orleans, 15-18 November 2012.

“Solidarity before Solidarity: Cross-Iron Curtain Catholic Cooperation with Poland,” UVA Polish Lecture Series Workshop on Catholic Activism Behind the Iron Curtain, Charlottesville, 26 October 2012.

“The Legacy of Polish Christian Democracy: Materials and Methods for Research,” Conference on Christian Democratic Internationalism, Istituto Luigi Sturzo/Council for European Studies, Rome, 1 December 2011.

“Catholic-Socialist Fusion in Postwar Europe: Solidarity’s Predetermination, Solidarity’s Anachronism,” 43^rd Annual Conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, 17-20 November 2011.

“Catholic, Socialist, European: Poland, France, and the Transformation of Catholic Activism, 1905-1956,” Paper at Woodrow Wilson Center/NCEEER Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar, Seattle, 12-15 August 2011.

“Transnational Catholic Activism: The Polish Catholic ZNAK Movement and France, Belgium, and West Germany, 1945-1980,” Conference at the European University Institute, Fiesole, 2-3 November 2010.

“Catholic ‘Foreign Policy’: The Polish Laity and Transnational Networks of Political and Religious Solidarity, 1945-1980,” Transnational Perspectives on Dissent and Opposition, Conference at the German Historical Institute, Warsaw, 17-19 September 2010.

“Le musée varsovien de Katyń : où est donc le lieu de mémoire polonais de Katyń ?” Les lieux de mémoire victimaire en Europe, XVIe-XXIe siècles, Conference at Université de Bourgogne (UMR CNRS uB 5605), Dijon, 18-20 November 2009.

“Surmontant le POLAK-KATOLIK : autour des problèmes de la polonisation de l’historiographie du religieux en Pologne,” Conference at Université Jean Moulin – Lyon III (UMR 5190 LARHRA), Lyon, 4 November 2009.

 “The Travels of Politically Engaged Polish Catholic Intellectuals, or, How to talk about ‘transnational networks,’” Cold War Interactions Reconsidered, 9th Annual Aleksanteri Conference at the University of Helsinki, 29-31 October 2009.

“Travelers: Polish Catholic Intellectuals Bridging Poland and Western Europe Across the Iron Curtain,” 40th Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, 20-23 November 2008.

“Politics, Class, and Forgetfulness: Writing the History of the Katyń Massacres, 1943-2008,” Historical Memory of Violence and Catastrophe, Symposium at Princeton University, 22 February 2008.

“Polish Catholics’ Path to Germany: Historical Memory, Transnational Intellectual Networks, and the Polish Bishops’ Letter of 1965,” Polish-German Post/Memory: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics, Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, 19-22 April 2007.

“Polska i Niemcy: wybory 2005 i przemiany w politycznej instrumentalizacji kompleksu agresor-ofiara,” Deutsches-Polen Institut Conference, Darmstadt, 25-27 November 2005.

“‘Christian’ Politics: Confronting the Historical Place of Religious Tradition in the Political Cultures of Poland and the European Union,” Warsaw Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, 18-21 July 2004.