Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
born 1962

A Warsaw-born Polish-American historian who specializes in Eastern and Central European history of the 19th and 20th century. His interest include Jewish-Polish relations, extrernist movements, World War II and its aftermath. Born and raised in Warsaw, he arrived in California in 1982. He earned a B.A. degree from San Francisco State University in 1988 and a Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University in 2001.

Between 2001 and 2003 Dr. Chodakiewicz was an assistant professor with the Kosciuszko Chair in Polish Studies at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. Since 2003 he has been teaching at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC, where he continues his research. In April 2005 President George W. Bush appointed him for a 5-year term to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Dr. Chodakiewicz authored, co-authored, edited and co-edited several scholarly monographs and documentary collections as well as academic and popular articles in English and Polish. Among his recent publications are 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). In 2004 he co-edited a selection of Ronald Reagan's speeches published in Polish as My Vision of America.

From: "Good News 2006-2007"; Lady Blanka Rosenstiel, editor; The American Institute of Polish Culture; Miami, FL, 2006.