Department of History - University of Michigan

Brian Porter-Szűcs

Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1994

Contact Information:
University of Michigan
1751 Haven Hall
Phone: 734-764-6803
E-mail: baporter@umich.edu

Field(s) of Study:
Modern Eastern Europe; 19th & 20th century Poland; 19th and 20th century Roman Catholicism; Modern European intellectual history

Homepage:
http://umich.academia.edu/BrianPorterSzucs

Biography:
Brian Porter-Szűcs was awarded the 2006 LSA Excellence in Education Award by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. His most recent publications include “Hetmanka and Mother: Representing the Virgin Mary in Modern Poland,” Contemporary European History 14:2 (May 2005): 151-70; and “Anti-Semitism and the Search for a Catholic Modernity,” in Robert Blobaum, ed., Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005). His book, When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), will appear soon in a Polish translation published by Pogranicze Press.

Selected Publications:
- When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

- “Hetmanka and Mother: Representing the Virgin Mary in Modern Poland,” Contemporary European History 14:2 (May 2005): 151-70.

- “Anti-Semitism and the Search for a Catholic Modernity,” in Robert Blobaum, ed., Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005).

- “Podzwonne dla badań nad nacjonalizmem,” in Naród - tożsamość - kultura. Między konieczności a wyborem, ed. by Wojciech Burszta, Krzysztof Jaskułowski, and Joanna Nowak (Warszawa: Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy, 2005).

- “Making a Space for Anti-Semitism: The Catholic Hierarchy and the Jews in the early 20th Century,” Polin16 (2003), 415-429.

- “Thy Kingdom Come: Patriotism and Prophecy in 19th Century Poland,” The Catholic Historical Review 89, 2 (2003): 213-238.

- “Marking the Boundaries of the Faith: Catholic Modernism and the Radical Right in Early Twentieth-Century Poland,” in Elwira M. Grossman, ed., Studies in Language, Literature and Cultural Mythology in Poland: Investigating “the Other” (Lewiston-Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002), 261-86.

- “The Catholic Nation: Religion, Identity, and the Narratives of Polish History,” The Slavic and East European Journal 45:2 (March, 2002).

- “Democracy and Discipline in Late Nineteenth-Century Poland,” Journal of Modern History 71:2 (June 1999): 346-93.

- “The Construction and Deconstruction of Nineteenth-Century Polish Liberalism,” in Historical Reflections on Central Europe, ed. by S. Kirschbaum (New York: St. Martins, 1999), 37-64.

- “The Social Nation and its Futures: English Liberalism and Polish Nationalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Warsaw,” American Historical Review 101:5 (December 1996): 1470-92.

Current Projects:
- For God and Fatherland: The Roman Catholic Church, Poland, and Modernity (book, estimated date of completion: 2007).

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