Zbigniew Anthony Kruszewski
Political science scholar, Polish community leader
Born Jun. 27, 1928, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1952; son of Tadeusz and Irena (Grabowska); married June (Sadowski).
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago (IL), 1967.
Career: faculty scholar, coordinator, Political Science Department, State University of New York (SUNY) College, Plattsburgh, 1967-68; chairman, Soviet and East European Studies Program, 1971 -, prof., 1972 -, chairman, 1974-80, 1984-87, Department of Political Sciience, director, Southwest Ethnic Study Center, 1975 -, chairman, Graduate Council and Graduate Assembly, 1980-84, University of Texas, El Paso; research fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom), 1990; prof., Polish University Abroad, London, 1991 -; lecturer i.a. at: University of Kiev (Ukraine), 1988, Japan, Brazil, 1989, European Communities Headquarters, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Headquarters, (Belgium), German Federal Institute for Eastern & International Studies (Germany), Catholic University of Lublin, University of Warsaw, and Polish Academy of Science (Poland), 1990, Poland, Lithuania, Russia and Belarus, 1992.
Author: editor, Behavior Science Bibliographies: Bibliography of Poland, 1956; commentator, panel member, Press Internationale, WBKB-TY, Chicago, 1961-66; The Oder - Neisse Boundary and Poland's Modernization, 1972; editor, Chicanos and Native Americans: The Territorial Minorities, 1973, and Politics and Society in the Southwest: Ethnicity & Chicago Pluralism, 1982.
Member of: board member, El Paso Symphony Orchestra, 1978-79, 1984-87; president, Rocky Mountain Soviet Studies Association, 1987-88; American Civil Liberties Union, El Paso chapter; originator, Polish Literature Chair, University of Chicago; co-founder, Polish Home Army Institute, Catholic University of Lublin; national vice president, Polish American Congress (P.A.C.); founder, The Kruszewski Family Endowed Professorships in Political Science, University of Texas.
Honors: Phi Kappa Phi; scholarship, University of Chicago, 1953-59; fellowship, Kosciuszko Foundation, 1959-60; Academic Excellence award, University of Texas, 1983; Outstanding Teaching award, University of Texas System Chancellor's Council, 1988.
Served with: Polish Home Army - Armia Krajowa (A.K.); Warsaw Uprising, 1944; Polish Army in the West, 2nd Corps, Italy, 1945.
Languages: Polish, English.
Office: University of Texas, Department of Political Science, El Paso, TX 79968.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996