Rank:

Professor Emeritus

Address:

1560 N. Sandburg Terrace
Apt. 3902
Chicago, IL 60610-7736

Phone: (312) 664-7126
E-mail: kul@uic.edu

Education:

• B.S. (History), College of the Holy Cross, 1963
• M.A. (History), Columbia University, 1966
• East Central Europe Area Studies Certificate, Columbia University, 1968.
• Ph.D., "with distinction" (History), Columbia University, 1973.

Research Fields:

• Modern Nationalism
• East Central European History, particularly Modern Polish History
  
  

Publications:

Monographs:

The Polish Coal Miners' Union and the German Labor Movement in the Ruhr, 1902-1934: National and Social Solidarity (Oxford, New York: Berg, 1997), xvi, 283 pp.

The Foreign Worker and the German Labor Movement: Xenophobia and Solidarity in the Coal Fields of the Ruhr, 1871-1914 (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1994), xvi, 297 pp.

School Strikes in Prussian Poland, 1901-1907: The Struggle over Bilingual Education (Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press, 1981), xxii, 279 pp.; rev. ed.: Strajki szkolne w zaborze pruskim, 1901-1907: Walka o dwujezyczna oswiate (Poznan: Biblioteka Kroniki Wielkopolski, 1993), 343 pp.

Articles & Book Chapters:

• "My Experience as a Paid Informer of the Polish Security Service," East European Politics & Societies 23, No. 1 (Winter 2009), 126-34.
• "Polish Historians in the United States and Canada," The Polish Review 53, No. 4 (2008), 457-65.
• "Identity and Migration to and from Poland, 1944-1950,"Przeglad Polonijny 23, No. 4 (2007), 37-55.
• “An Ethnic Poland: A Failure of National Self-Determination,” in Central European History and the European Union: The Meaning of Europe, ed. by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 123-42.
• "Dzieje Polski w amerykanskiej historiografii Europy. Krolestwo Nigdzie" [The History of Poland in American historiography of Europe: A Kingdom Nowhere] in "O nas bez nas". Historia Polski w historiografiach obcojezycznych, ed. by Witold Molik and Henryk Żalinski (Poznan: Wydawnictwo Poznanskie, 2007), 19-47.
• "Eastern Europe in Western Civilization Textbooks: The Example of Poland," The History Teacher XXXVIII, No. 2 (February 2005): 153-177.
• "Polish Communists and National Self-Determination after World War II," in Wokol historii i polityki: Studia z dziejow XIX i XX wieku dedykowane Profesorowi Wojciechowi Wrzesinskiemu w siedemdziesiata rocznice urodzin, ed. by Stanislaw Ciesielski et al. (Torun: Adam Marszalek, 2004), 475-81.
• "The Western Allies and the Creation of an Ethnic Poland," in Studia z dziejow Polski i Europy w XIX i XX wieku: Ksiega dedykowana Profesorowi Piotrowi Stefanowi Wandyczowi, ed. by Jausz Farys et al. (Gorzow Wlkp.: Zamiejscowy Wydzial Kultury Fizycznej poznanskiej AWF i Centralne Archiwum Polonii w Orchard Lake, 2004), 437-46.
• "The First Polish Clergymen in the Ruhr: Religion in the Service of National Identity," in States, Societies, Cultures East and West: Essays in Honor of Jaroslaw Pelenski, ed. by Janusz Duzinkiewicz et al. (New York: Ross Publishing Inc., 2004), 513-31.
• "'Propolska' historia w Ameryce" ["Pro-Polish" History in America], Wiez, No. 3 (March 2004), 83-88.
• "'Repatriation': Bringing Poles from the Soviet Union Home after World War II," Sprawy Narodowosciowe, No. 32 (2003), 7-41.
  
• "The Conscience of a Positivist," Polish American Studies LIX, No. 1 (2002), 67-75.
• "Who is a Pole? Polish Nationality Criteria in the 'Recovered Lands,' 1945-1951," Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism XXVIII, No. 1-2 (2001), 107-118.
• "The National Identity of the 'Natives' of Poland's 'Recovered Lands,'" National Identities III, No. 3 (2001), 205-219.
• "Language, National Identity, and Nationalism," in Discourse on Multilingual Cultures: Popular Cultures, Societies and Art, ed. by Yuich Midzunoe (Tokyo: Taga Shuppan, 1999), 389-394.
• "Zrodla nowoczesnej polskiej tozamosci narodowej: Perspektywa amerykanska" [The Origins of the Modern Polish National Identity: An American Perspective], Sprawy Narodowosciowe VI, No. 2 (1997) [1998], 93-110.
• "Working-Class Nationalism among Polish Migrants in the Ruhr Region," in National Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995, ed. by Ray Taras (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1998; New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1998), 122-130.
• "Rural Transformation in Poland after 1945: The Polonization of the 'Recovered Lands,'" in The Transformation of the Systems of East-Central Europe Rural Societies before and after 1989, ed. by Shingo Minamizuka (Kecskemet, Hungary: Tiberias BT, 1996), 83-93.
• "Uwarunkowania swiadomosci narodowej polskich gornikow w Zaglebiu Ruhry przed I wojna swiatowa" [The Formation of National Consciousness among Polish Miners in the Ruhr Region before World War I], in Pamietnik XV Powszechnego Zjazdu Historykow Polskich, ed. by Jacek Staszewski (Gdansk-Torun: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek, 1995), I, Part 2, 151-159.
• "The First Migrants' Miner Associations in the Ruhr," in Essays in Russian and East European History: Festschrift in Honor of Edward C. Thaden, ed. by Leo Schelbert and Nick Ceh (Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs, 1995), 101-115.
  
• "Democratization and Nationalism in Contemporary Poland," in Totalitarianism and the Challenge of Democracy, ed. by Andrzej W. Jablonski and Wojciech Piasecki (Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego, 1992), 65-72.
• "Relations between Polish and German Coal-Miners in the Ruhr, 1871-1914," in Eastern Europe and the West: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990, ed. by John Morison (London: St. Martin's Press, 1992), 186-192.
• A Trade Union for Polish Miners in the Ruhr: 'Alter Verband,' 'Gewerkverein' and 'Zjednoczenie Zawodowe Polskie,'" in Sozialgeschichte des Bergbaus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, ed. by Klaus Tenfelde (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1992), 609-622.
  
• "Scapegoating the Foreign Worker: Job Turnover, Accidents, and Diseases among Polish Coal Miners in the German Ruhr," Polish American Studies, XLVI, No. 1 (1989), 42-60, reprinted in The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Essays on Labor Activism and the World Economy Since 1830, ed. by Camille Guerin-Gonzales and Carl Strikwerda (Holmes & Meier, New York), 1993.
• "The Herne 'Polish Revolt' of 1899: Social and National Consciousness among Polish Coal Miners in the Ruhr," Canadian Slavonic Papers XXXI, No. 2 (1989), 146-169.
  
• "Nationalism over Class Solidarity: The German Trade Unions and Polish Coal Miners in the Ruhr to 1902," Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, XIV, No. 2 (1987), 261-276.
• "Polscy gornicy w Zaglebiu Ruhry. Proba charakterystyki statystycznej na podstawie nieznanego zrodla (1 stycznia 1900)" [Polish Miners in the Ruhr Region: A Statistical Analysis Based on a Previously Unknown Source (1 January 1900)], Przeglad Polonijny XIII, No. 3 (1987), 21-26.
• "The Prussian Authorities and the Poles of the Ruhr," The International History Review VIII, No. 4 (1986), 593-603.
  
• "Norman Davies's Playground: Nineteenth-Century Polish History," Eastern European Politics and Societies I, No. 3 (1987), 456-473.
• "The Prussian Authorities and the Poles of the Ruhr," The International History Review VIII, No. 4 (1986), 593-603.
• "Germans, Poles, and Jews," East European Quarterly XVIII, No. 3 (1984), 365-374, with Richard S. Levy.
• "Polish Economic Immigration in Western Germany and France, 1895-1935," in Russian and Eastern European History: Selected Papers from the Second World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, ed. by R.C. Elwood (Berkeley, California: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1984), 261-276.
  
• "The Beginnings of the Solidarity Movement in Poznan," The Polish Review XXVII, Nos. 3-4 (1982), 154-169.
• "Social Change in the Polish National Movement in Prussia before World War I," Nationalities Papers IV, No. 1 (1976), 17-53, reprinted in Studia Historica Slavo-Germanica, VI (1977), 113-137.
• "Spontaneity versus Organization and the Masses of Prussian Poland in the Early Twentieth Century," in Rola Wielkopolski w dziejach narodu polskiego, ed. by Stanislaw Kubiak and Lech Trzeciakowski (Poznan: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 1979), pp. 269-283.
• "German Cultural Imperialism in Prussian Poland, 1871-1914," in Russian and Slavic History, ed. by D.K. Rowney and G.E. Orchard (Slavica, Columbus, Ohio, 1977), 105-122.
• "The School Strike of 1906-1907 in the Province of Poznan," in American Contributions to the Seventh International Congress of Slavists, III: History, ed. by A. Cienciala (The Hague: Mouton, 1973), 171-187.
  

• American Council of Learned Societies--Social Science Research Council, Post-Doctoral Research Grant, 1977-78, 1-12/1987, 1-12/1995
• Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, U. of Illinois at Chicago, 1989-90

The transformation of the Polish national identity under Communism, 1944-1989 (book project)