Joanna Williams (Radwanska)
Slavic languages educator
Born May 30, 1961, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1977; daughter of Zbigniew and Ewa (Woloszyn); married Stephen Williams.
Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (with highest honors), 1981, Ph.D., 1989, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Career: instructor, University of Pittsburgh (PA), 1989; assistant prof., Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, 1989 -.
Author: A Paradigm Lost: The Linguistic Theory of Mikolaj Kraszewski (dissertation), 1989.
Member of: honorary member, "Dobro Slovo" Slavic Honorary Society; American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL); American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS); Linguistic Society of America; Kosciuszko Foundation; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.).
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; fellowship, University of North Carolina, 1981-83, Kosciuszko Foundation, 1986-87.
Affiliation: Democrat. Catholic.
Languages: Polish, English, Russian, French.
Hobby: writing poetry.
Office: State University of New York, Department of Germanic and Slavic, Stony Brook, NY 11794.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.