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Anna Cichopek-Gajraj

Arizona State University

School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

email: [email protected], tel: 480-965-6333

Coor Hall 4558, Tempe, AZ 85287-4302

Academic Appointments:

2011-Present: Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe

2010-2011: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario

2009-2010: Adjunct Professor, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

2008-2009: Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Education:

Ph.D. in History, University of Michigan, History Department and Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, Ann Arbor, US, December 2008

Concentration: Modern Jewish History and Modern East European History

Dissertation: Jews, Poles, and Slovaks: A Story of Encounters, 1944-1948

Advisors: Todd Endelman, Brian Porter-Szűcs, Zvi Gitelman, and Piotr Wróbel (University of Toronto)

M.A. in History, Jagiellonian University, History Department and Interdepartmental Institute of History and Culture of Jews in Poland, Cracow, Poland, July 1998

Concentration: Modern Polish and Jewish History

Thesis: Z dziejów antysemityzmu: pogrom Żydów w Krakowie 11 sierpnia 1945 (From the History of Antisemitism: The Anti-Jewish Pogrom in Cracow, August 11, 1945)

Advisors: Józef A. Gierowski and Andrzej K. Link-Lenczowski

Research and Teaching Interests:

Comparative and social history, modern Jewish history, modern East European and European history, Jewish politics, the Holocaust and genocide, early modern and modern Polish history, theories of ethnicity, ethnic violence, and nationalism

Publications:

Book

Cichopek, Anna. Pogrom Żydów w Krakowie 11 sierpnia 1945 r. Warszawa: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, 2000 (in Polish)

Book chapter

Cichopek, Anna. “The Cracow Pogrom of August 1945: A Narrative Reconstruction.” In Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath, edited by Joshua D. Zimmerman. Rutgers University Press, 2003

Working paper

Cichopek, Anna. "After Liberation: The Journey Home of Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944-46." In EUI Working Papers MWP No. 2009. Max Weber Programme: European University Institute, 2009.

Review articles and book reviews

Feldman, Jackie. Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag: Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli national identity. Berghahn Books, 2008. In H-Net Reviews

Weeks, Theodore R. From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The "Jewish Question" in Poland, 1850-1914. Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. In Gal-Ed: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry 22, (2010) (in Hebrew)

Bartov, Omer. Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine. Princeton University Press, 2007. In European History Quarterly 39, No. 3, (2009)

Michlic, Joanna Beata. Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present. Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press, 2006. In Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38, (2008)

Paczkowski, Andrzej. Od sfałszowanego zwycięstwa do prawdziwej klęski: szkice do portretu PRL. Cracow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1999. In Dekada Literacka 3, (1999) (in Polish)

Work in Progress

Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia in 1944-48 [book manuscript]

Public Lectures and Conference Presentations:

“Being Jewish in Slovakia and Poland after the Second World War,” Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews and Society of Arts and Sciences in New York, New York, April 27, 2011

“Beyond Violence: New Approaches to Postwar Polish-Jewish History,” Polish Studies in the 21^st Century – The 3^rd International Conference on Polish Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 16-18, 2010

“Beyond Violence: Jewish Returns to Poland and Slovakia, 1944-48,” London School of Economics, London, April 30, 2009

”Nie tylko przemoc: powojenne powroty ocalonych Żydów do Polski i na Słowacje,

1944-48,” Polish Academy of Arts and Science (Polska Akademia Umiejętności, PAU) in Cracow, April 8, 2009

“A Case for Comparative Perspective in Polish-Jewish History: Property Restitution in 1945,” Between Coexistence and Divorce – 25 Years of Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jewry and Polish-Jewish Relations International Conference, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, March 17-19, 2009

“New Terms of Belonging: Citizenship of Jews in Slovakia, 1944-1948,” the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) 39^th Annual National Convention in New Orleans, November 18, 2007

“A Difficult Encounter? Jews, Poles, and Slovaks in Poland and Slovakia, 1944-1948,” the AAASS 37^th Annual National Convention in Salt Lake City, November 6, 2005

“The Past Is Another Country: The Legacy of the Holocaust in Postwar Poland and Germany,” the 25^th Annual Conference on the Holocaust at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, March 15, 2004

“Polish Memory of Jedwabne: Struggle with the Past,” the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies 40^th Annual Meeting in Daytona Beach, March 15, 2002

Professional Experience:

Teaching

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, Fall 2009-Winter 2011:

- The Holocaust

- Jewish Women in Modern European History

- Modern Jewish history from 1492 to the Present

- Modern Germany, 1815 to the Present

- Modern Europe from 1917

Tutor of graduate students, European University Institute, Fall 2008:

- Social and political history of Poland and Eastern Europe (1914-1968)

- Theories of identity and methodology of history

Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan, Fall 2002-Winter 2004:

- History of Zionism and Israel

- History of the Holocaust

- History of Eastern Europe since 1900

- History of Europe since 1945

- Psychology of Ethnic Conflict: Poles, Jews, Ukrainians

Other

Program Coordinator, University of Michigan, Center for Russian and East European Studies, Summer Study Abroad Program in Cracow, Poland, July 2002

Director for Poland of the Non-Profit Foundation of Remembrance and Reconciliation, Inc. established by John J. Hartman for the restoration of Jewish heritage in Poland, 1999-2002

Tour Guide in the Jewish quarter Kazimierz and the Ghetto area in Cracow, the Jewish Bookstore/Travel Agency Argona, Cracow, Poland, 1994-2002

Interpreter and Assistant to the archives in Poland, the Jewish Bookstore/Travel Agency Argona, Cracow, Poland, 1994-2002

Professional and Teaching Training:

Workshop for Early Career Faculty in Jewish Studies organized by the American Academy for Jewish Research, the Jewish Studies Program and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 22-25, 2011

Teaching Exchange Program organized by the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute and the Division of Academic and Professional Development in the London School of Economics, London, April 26-May 1, 2009

Workshop on Course and Curriculum Design, Lynn McAlpine, Professor of Higher Education Development at University of Oxford, European University Institute, Florence, March 9-11, 2009

International Graduate Student Workshop, the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 2002

Honors and Awards:

The Jan Józef Lipski Prize for the Best Master Thesis in Poland in 1998, 1999

Special Prize of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC for the Best Master Thesis in Jewish Studies in Poland in 1998, 1999

Grants and Fellowships:

Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Scholarship in New York, Fall 2007-Winter 2008

Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, 2006-2007

Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship for Archival Research, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, August-October 2005

Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Brandt Fellowship, Summer 2005

Ronald and Eileen Weiser Award for Student Research and Internship in Slovakia, Summer 2004 and 2006

Sheldon Hamburger and Eva Jankelowitz Fellowship, Spring 2004

University of Michigan, Center for Russian and East European Studies Research, Internship and Fellowship Award, Spring 2003 and Summer 2005

La Med Fund for Yiddish Studies Fellowship, Spring 2003

Nicolaus Copernicus Endowment Scholarship, 2001-2002

University of Michigan, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Fall 2000

State Committee of Scientific Research (Komitet Badań Naukowych, KBN) Fellowship for Doctoral Research in Poland, 2000-2003

Jagiellonian University, History Department Graduate Studies Fellowship, 1999

Membership:

Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)

The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

The Polish Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada in Toronto (PJHF)

Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews

Language Skills:

Polish (native), English (fluent), Yiddish and Slovak (reading and conversation), Ukrainian and German (reading), Czech, Latin, and Hebrew (basic knowledge)