Anna M. Cienciala
Prof. Emeritus of Hist. and Russian and E. European Studies (Ph. D. Indiana 1962; M.A. McGill, 1955; B.A. Liverpool, 1952). East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries; Poland from the partitions to the present, Communist nations, diplomacy. Prof. Cienciala has published 2 books, edited 4, and published around 40 academic articles in U.S., Polish, and German historical journals. Born in Poland, educated in Poland, France, England, and the U.S., she taught at the University of Ottawa and the University of Toronto before coming to the University of Kansas in 1965.
Her latest book, Katyn. A Crime without Punishment (Yale University Press, 2008), is a volume of Russian documents in English, co-edited by Prof. Cienciala with Dr. Natalia S. Lebedeva, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, and Prof. Wojciech Materski, Director Polish Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.
Other recent publications include "La politique etrangere de la Pologne dans la periode de l'Appeasement et des revisions des traites. Les vues et la politique du marechal Pilsudski et du colonel Beck, 1933-1939," dans La Pologne et l'Europe. Du partage a l'elargissement (XVIIIe-XXIe siecles), red. Par Isabelle Davion, Jerzy Kloczowski et Georges-Henri Soutou (dir), PUPS Paris 2007: 119-146; "The Munich Crisis of 1938: Plans and Strategy in Warsaw in the Context of the Western Appeasement of Germany," in Lukas and Goldstein, eds., The Munich Crisis, 1938. Prelude to World War II (Frank Cass: London, 1999); "The Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 23, 1939: When did Stalin Decide to Align with Hitler, and Was Poland the Culprit?" in: Ideology and Politics in East Central Europe, edited by M.B. Biskupski, (University of Rochester Press, 2003, ISBN 1-58046-137-9 and pb. 1-58046-155-7, pp.147-226.) This book was dedidcated to Prof. Piotr S.Wandycz to honor him for his contributions of East European History.
A recent conference paper reflected one of Prof. Cienciala's long-standing research interests: "The Foreign Policy of the Polish Governmen-in-Exile, 1939-1945: Political and Military Realities versus Polish Psychological Reality," published with other conference papers in a volume out in September 2007, titled: Reflections on Polish Foreign Policy, edited by John S. Micgiel and Piotr S. Wandycz, pp. 47-88. (ISBN 0-9654520-7-7). These are the proceedings of a conference sponsored by the East Central European Center, Columbia University and the Jozef Pilsudski Institute for Research in the Modern History of Poland, held at Columbia University on 17 November 2005. She has received awards from the NEH, Fulbright, IREX, ACLS, and the Hall Center at KU. Prof. Cienciala is a member of numerous professional associations in Poland, the U.K., and the U.S.
On November 28, 2007, at the Awards Ceremony held in the Polish Consulate General in New York, Prof. Cienciala received from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America the Distinguished Achievement Award for her editing work on the book Katyn. A Crime without Punishment. In June 2000, Prof. Cienciala was honored for her scholarly publications on Polish History by the History Institute of Gdansk University and the City of Gdansk. Also, as a member of the Board of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, she was awarded the Polish Cross of Merit by the President of Poland. Prof. Cienciala became emeritus in May 2002, but remains strongly involved in the department's educational mission. She is at present revising and updating her internet course on the history of Modern East Central Europe, titled: "Nationalism and Communism in East Central Europe," including an extensive Eng. lang. bibliography which can be accessed at http://web.ku.edu/~eceurope/hist557.
