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Drawing from: "The Illustrations of Julian Zebrowski"
Stanislaus Andrew Blejwas
Historian, educator
Born Oct. 5, 1941, Brooklyn (NY), U.S.; son of Stanislaw and Catherine (Komorowski); married Lucille (Boucher); children: Carol, Andrzej.
Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (summa cum laude), Providence College (RI), 1963; Master of Arts (M.A), 1966, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), 1973, Columbia University, New York City.
Career: assistant director, Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia University, 1970-73; assistant prof., 1974-79, coordinator, Polish Studies, 1974 -, associate prof., 1979-84, prof., 1984-89, CSU university prof., 1989 -, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain.
Author: A Polish Community in Transition. The Origins and Evolution of Holy Cross Parish, New Britain, Connecticut, 1927-77, 1978; Realism in Polish Politics: Warsaw Positivism and National Survival in Nineteenth Century Poland, 1982; co-editor (with M. B. Biskupski), Pastor of the Poles: Polish American Essays, 1982; St. Stanislaus B. & M. Parish, Meriden, Connecticut: A Century of Connecticut Polonia 1891-1991, 1992; A Polish American Ethnic Parish: St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Bristol, Connecticut. 1919-1994, 1994; numerous articles in: The Polish Review, Polish American Studies, Jewish Social Studies, Canadian Slavonic Studies, Dean 's Papers, Connecticut History, Polin (United Kingdom), Res Publica (Poland), Austrian History Yearbook (Austria), Surabu Kenku (Slavic Studies), Polish National Catholic Church Studies, The Connecticut Review, Polish-Anglo Saxon Studies, The Polish Presence in Canada and America, Polonia Amerykanska, Przeszlosc i wspolczesnosc (Poland); essays in: The Hartford Curant, The International Herold Tribune, The New York Times Review of Books, and Polish American publications.
Member of: president, Polish American Historical Association (P.A.H.A.); board directors member, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.); director, Pilsudski Institute of America; Polish American Congress (P.A.C.) (president, Connecticut district, 1983-87); American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS); Kosciuszko Foundation; president, Polish Cultural Club of Greater Hartford; board directors member, New Britain Public Library.
Honors: National Defense Foreign Language fellowships, 1965-67. 1968-69; honorary fellow, 1965-66, Columbia University; fellowships, Fulbright-Hays Foundation, 1967-68, International Research & Exchanges Boadr (IREX), 1969-70; doctoral dissertation award, Kosciuszko Foundation, 1974; grant for oral history project, Polish Survivors of the Holocaust, Connecticut Humanities Council, 1980; fellowship, National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Seminar on Immigrant and Ethnic Literature, University of Massachusetts, 1983; grant for organization of Connecticut Pollsh - American Archives and Manuscript Collection, National Archives; J. Swastek Prize, 1981, 1985, 1994, Haiman Medal, 1990, P.A.H.A.; grants, National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), 1994, Kosciuszko Foundation, 1995; appointed by president W. Clinton, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, 1994.
Affiliation: Democrat. Roman Catholic.
Languages: Polish, English, French, Russian.
Hobbies: collecting stamps, walking, modeling trains.
Home: 23 Avalon Rd., West Hartford, CT 06119
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996