Biography - John Radzilowski

John Radzilowski, PhD is assistant professor of History and Geography at the University of Alaska Southeast where he teaches US and World History. He is a fellow at the Piast Institute, A National Center for Polish and Polish-American Affairs.

He is currently general editor for the Encyclopedia of American Immigration (second edition). Prof. Radzilowski is the author, or co-author, of 13 books including “Traveller’s History of Poland” (2007),” Polish Nationalism and Spanish Carlism”,” The Borderlands of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries” (2003), “The Eagle and the Cross, A History of Polish Roman Catholic Union of America “(2003), and” Community of Strangers, Change, Turnover, and Turbulence and the Transformation of a Midwestern Country Town “(1999). He is also author of numerous reports, articles, and reviews in publications such as Journal of American Ethnic History; Polin, Studies in Polish Jewry; Polish American Studies; and Minnesota History. In 2007, he received the Oskar Halecki Prize from the Polish American Historical Association for his book “Poles in Minnesota”.

His research and teaching interests include the history of east-central Europe, US history, immigration-migration history, and military and political history. He is currently editing a collected volume of translated articles on the activities of the communist security services in Poland since 1944 based on recently declassified files.