Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

Professor of History, The Kosciuszko Chair in Polish Studies

Professional Experience

- Former assistant professor of history of the Kosciuszko Chair in Polish Studies at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
- Former visiting professor of history, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

Dr. Chodakiewicz is the current holder of the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies, which is now here at IWP. He has authored numerous works in both English and Polish. While at the University of Virginia , he edited the Kosciuszko Chair's bulletin: Nihil Novi.
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In addition to popular and scholarly articles, his publications include The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After (2005), Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947 (2004) and After the Holocaust: Polish-Jewish Conflict in the Wake of World War Two (2003).

Dr. Chodakiewicz co-edited Poland's Transformation: A Work in Progress (2003) and Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: Borderlands of Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2003).

He translated and edited the correspondence of the Ulam family of Lwów to the mathematician Stanislaw Ulam at Harvard from 1936 until after the Second World War. In 2003 Dr. Chodakiewicz won Poland's Jozef Mackiewicz Literary Award for his Ejszyszki: The Background of Events, and Epilogue of Polish-Jewish Relations in the Eastern Borderlands, 1944-45. In 2004 he co-edited a selection of Ronald Reagan's speeches published as My Vision of America in Polish.

Education

B.A., 1988, San Francisco State University
M.A.,1990, MPhil,1992, Columbia University
Ph.D., 2001, Columbia University

Honors and Awards

Richard Hofstadter Fellowship (1989-1994), Columbia University
The Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Research Grant (2001)
The Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant (2004)
Presidential Appointee, United States Holocaust Memorial Council (2005-2010)

Contact: chodakiewicz@iwp.edu

Expert Areas

Eastern Europe
History
Democracy Building
Communism
American Foreign Policy
Europe
International Relations

Russian Politics and Foreign Policy

The essential focus of this course is to fathom the causes and consequences of the disintegration of the communist system, and to examine the political, ideological and economic changes in post-Soviet Russia.

Principal Professor

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

John Lenczowski

Genocide and Genocide Prevention

This seminar concentrates on Genocide and Genocide Prevention in the 20th and 21st centuries. The objective is to conduct case studies of genocide, identify ideological and political reasons for those crimes, and detect early warning signs for genocide prevention.

Principal Professor

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

Geography and Strategy

This eight-week seminar (two credits) demonstrates the importance of geography to international politics, economics, national security, and strategy. It introduces students to the geographic and geopolitical factors that have shaped the field of world politics.

Principal Professor

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz