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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Dr. Chodakiewicz writes weekly columns for popular Polish press and contributes to the SELOUS Foundation internet hub. He has also published on foreign policy in various venues, including The Journal of World Affairs, American Spectator, and National Review Online.

In addition to numerous popular and scholarly articles, Dr. Chodakiewicz authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited over fifteen scholarly monographs and documentary collections. His latest include Intermarium: The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas (2012), which is a depiction of the Eastern Borderlands of the West on the rim of the former Soviet Union, and On the Right and Left (2013), which is a textbook of intellectual history of modern ideologies. 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 and co-edited a selection of Ronald Reagan's speeches published as My Vision of America in Polish.

His interests include the post-Soviet zone, the Second World War and its aftermath, Europe in the 19th and 20th century, Western civilization and its intellectual tradition, extremist movements in history, conspiracy theory and practice, and comparative civilizations.

At IWP, Dr. Chodakiewicz teaches courses on Genocide and Genocide Prevention, Geography and Strategy, and Russian Politics and Foreign Policy. In addition, he leads directed studies.

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)
Józef Mackiewicz Literary Prize (2003)
The Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant (2004)
Presidential Appointee, United States Holocaust Memorial Council (2005-2010)
Smith Richardson Fellowship Research Grant (2009-2010)

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