John Joseph Bukowczyk
History educator, Polish community leader
Son of Joseph and Stella (Wegrzyn).
Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Northwestern University, Evanston (IL), 1972; Master of Arts (M.A.) 1973, Ph.D., 1980, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA).
Career: visiting assistant prof., Connecticut College, New London, 1979-80; assistant prof., 1980-86, associate prof., 1986-92, prof., 1992 -, Wayne State University, Detroit (MI).
Author: And My Children Did Not Know Me: A History of the Polish - Americans, 1987; co-editor, Detroit Images: Photographs of the Renaissance City, 1989.
Member of: president, Polish American Historical Association (P.A.H.A.); American Association of University Professors (AAUP); American Historical Association (AHA); Canadian Ethnic Studies Association; Immigration Historical Society; National Council on Public History; Oral History Association; Social Science Historical Association; Organization of American Historians; Polish Instittute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.); Kosciuszko Foundation.
Honors: doctoral dissertation award, Kosciuszko Foundation, 1985; R. P. McCormick Prize (for scholarly publication), New Jersey Historical Commission, 1985; J. Swastek Prize, 1985, O. Halecki Award, 1987, Polish American Historical Association (P.A.H.A.); Career Development Chair, Wayne State University, 1987-88.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996