Thaddeus Radzilowski

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Thaddeus C. Radzilowski or Thaddeus C. Radzialowski or Tadeusz Radziłowski (4 February 1938 – 20 July 2018) was a

In 1999, Radzilowski received the

Life and education

Radzilowski was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Hieronim and Genowefa (Ochałek) Radzilowski, and received his B.A. from Wayne State University (1959). He received M.A. degrees in 1960 and 1971, and a Ph.D. in 1979, from the University of Michigan.^[1] His dissertation topic was "The Life and Works of N. P. Pavlov-Silvanskii (1869-1908)."^[2]

Radzilowski died on 20 July 2018.^[3]

Scholarship

Radzilowski co-edited State and Autocracy in Imperial Russian and Soviet Historiography (a special issue of Laurentian University Review, 1977), and was the author of Feudalism, Revolution, and the Meaning of Russian History: An Intellectual Biography of Nikolai Pavlovich Pavlov-Silvanskii (East European Monographs, 1994). He contributed articles and book reviews to many journals and newspapers, including the Arab American News, Detroit News, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of the West, Oral History Review, Polish American Journal, Polish American Studies, Polish Review, Przeglad Polonijny, Shofar, Slavic Review, U.S. Catholic, U.S. Catholic Historian, and The World & I. He also contributed chapters to various essay collections, including Polish Americans and their History: Community, Culture, and Politics (1996); Something of My Very Own to Say: American Women Writers of Polish Descent (1997); and Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future (2007).

Piast Institute

Thaddeus C. Radzilowski co-founded the Piast Institute with Virginia Skrzyniarz in 2003. The institute is the largest think tank in North America devoted to Polish and Polish-American issues, and is based in Hamtramck, Michigan.

Radzilowski has focused Piast as a research center, one of 59 U.S. Census Information Centers, and as a representative of Poland and Polish-Americans in the United States. With its internal staff and its worldwide network of Fellows, Piast develops and disseminates information through the development of position papers, conferences, seminars, popular articles, publications, teaching materials, exhibits and academic studies. Piast Institute also aids in the management of the Dekaban Foundations, which sponsor university faculty exchanges in economics, engineering and agriculture between Polish universities and institutions in the United States, Canada and Western Europe. In addition to the oversight of these programs, Piast Institute also sponsors and organizes annual Dekaban Lectures that have featured, among other speakers, former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and Pulitzer Prize winning author Alex Storozynski.

Piast is also certified by the United States Department of Citizenship and Immigration as an official assistance site for immigration matters, and arranges social services for local immigrants of all ethnicities. In addition to helping immigrant families, Piast Institute works to mediate social and political conflicts among ethnic groups, including taking leadership in mediating a highly publicized national story covered by

.

Piast also takes a lead role in protecting Polish culture from

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Concentration Camp" to the "Former Nazi German Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau."

Other involvements

• Ford Foundation Commission on Ethnicity in American Life
• Kosciuszko Foundation
• My Polish Story feature film (consultant, narrator)
• National Polish-American Jewish-American Council (Co-Chairman)
• Polish American Historical Association (Past President)
• Polish National Alliance

• Polish National Congress (Michigan Director)
• Polish Roman Catholic Union of America
• Saint Mary's College, Orchard Lake (President Emeritus)
• The Polish Review (Editorial Board)
• University of Michigan (Professor)
• Upper Midwest Ethnic Studies Association (Past President)
• National Polish Apostolate Committee

Early career

Prior to co-founding the Piast Institute, Radzilowski taught at

Heidelberg College, and Southwest Minnesota State University where he served as chair of the Department of History, director of the Regional History Center, director of Rural Studies and associate vice president for academic affairs. He also served as the acting director of the Immigration Research Center of the University of Minnesota, co-directed a special program on International Business at the Wirtschaft Universitet in Vienna and chaired the International Conference on Migration at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków

.

Radzilowski has also served as an advisor and consultant to the U.S.

Arts & Entertainment

channel. Radzilowski received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan.

References

1. ^ "Radzilowski, Thaddeus Casimer," in Who's Who in Polish America. Ed. Bolesław Wierzbiański. New York: Bicentennial Publishing Corp., 1996, 379-380.
2. ^ ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database.
3. ^ "Piast Institute co-founder Thaddeus Radzilowski 'believed in people'". Detroit News. Retrieved 21 July 2018.

External links

• Piast Institute Website
• Piast Institute International Symposium on FEAR by Jan T. Gross^{[permanent dead link]}