November 22, 2024
- The 2024 PSA Syllabus Award goes to Agnieszka Jeżyk, Maria Kott Endowed Assistant Professor of Polish Studies, from the University of Washington for her class syllabus “The Other in Other Europe: Poland’s Racial and Ethnic Other.”
- The 2024 PSA Dissertation Award goes to Ewelina Sikora (Central European University, Vienna/Budapest) for her work “Table set for diplomats: food, drink, and politics in Poland-Lithuania’s diplomatic relations, 1674–1696”. (Comparative History, supervisor: Jan Hennings). Ewelina combined the study of food history with diplomatic history to create a cultural narrative of Polish-Lithuanian foreign relations, analyzing how culinary exchanges influenced political negotiations.
Furthermore, there were two honorable mentions:
– Leah Valtin-Erwin “The Shop Across the Border: Western European Retail and the Making of Post–Communist (Super–)Market Societies in Eastern Europe, 1989—1999” (Indiana University Bloomington, Supervisor: Padraic Kenney)
– Aleksandra Jakubczak “(Sex)Worker, Migrant, Daughter: The Jewish Economics of Sex and Mobility, 1870-1939” (Columbia University, Supervisor: Rebecca Kobrin)
The next call for these awards will be in 2026.
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