Zachary Mazur
Date and institution of PhD awarded:
January 11, 2019, Yale University, USA
Specialisation:
history of economic policy; fiscal sociology; social history; history of the Second Polish Republic and Europe in the interwar period; history of nationalism; history of law and statehood
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Participation in research projects:
- European Association for Jewish Studies Conference Grant, 2023; POLIN Museum; Award: 3000 GBP.
- “Mittel- und Osteuropa am Scheideweg: Jüdische transnationale Netzwerke und Identitäten”, Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung (200593); POLIN Museum, 2023–2024; Award: 9000 EUR.
- “Next Generation Global PhDs” (BPI/STE/2021/1/00010/DEC/1), 2022–2024, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doctoral School Anthropos, Financed by NAWA/STER; Award: 1,236,553.20 PLN.
Books:
- To Kill a Spy: Political Violence and Everyday Nationalism in Fin-de-Siècle Europe (forthcoming with CEU Press).
Articles:
- “Who is the Sovereign? Legitimating Constitutional Authoritarianism in Interwar Poland,” European Law Open (forthcoming 2024).
- “Citizens without a State: ‘Nationality,’ International Law, and Jewish Emigration to the United States, 1918–1921,” in: Ethnicising Europe. Hate and Violence in Post-Versailles Europe. Éva Kovács, Raul Carstocea, Gábor Egry, eds. (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, forthcoming 2024).
- “Mini-States and Micro-Sovereignty: Local Democracies in East Central Europe, 1918-1923,” Contemporary European History, 32, 2 (2023).
- “Was there ever a Polish peasant? Historical imagination and the people’s history of Poland,” Acta Polonae Historica, 126 (2023), pp. 155–180.
- “The Grabski Tax Reform and Jewish Merchants: State Building in Interwar Poland,” East European Politics and Societies, 36, 2 (2022).
- “How to Kill Ghosts: Polish Aristocrats During the First World War,” Historyka: Studia Metodologiczne, 50 (2020).
Book reviews:
- “Jacob Mikanowski, Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land. New York, Pantheon, 2023. pp. 400”, Austrian History Yearbook, 1–2 (2024).
- “Jan Grabowski & Barbara Engelking, eds. Night without End: The Polish Countryside During the Holocaust (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022)”, Polish Review (Forthcoming 2024).
- “Piotr Puchalski, Poland In a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918–1939. London & New York: Routledge, 2022”, The Polish Review, 69/2 (2024), pp. 136–138.
- “Łukasz Bertram, Bunt, podziemie, władza: Polscy komuniści i ich socjalizacja polityczna do roku 1956. (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, 2022)”, East European Jewish Affairs (Forthcoming 2024).
- “Jamie Martin, The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance, Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 2022″, CEU Review of Books (2023).
- “Conference Report: “Jewish Responses to Nationalism in Central and East-Central Europe” (July 20–22, 2022), H-Soz-Kult (2022).
- “Dominique Kirchner Reill, The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire,” H-Diplo, March 2022.
- “John Connelly, From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe,” Nationalities Papers, 49, 6 (2021), pp. 1193–1194.
- “Ends of War. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Past and New Polish Regions after 1944,” H-Soz-Kult H-Net Reviews, January 2016.
Pop-history articles:
- “Black People of Poland: Representations and Realities,” Culture.pl, Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
- “Juliusz Makarewicz: A Key Figure in Criminology,” Culture.pl, Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
- “Yes! There are Polish Protestants,” Culture.pl, Adam Mickiewicz Institute
- “Global Depression, Local Tragedies: Rural Life in 1930s Poland,” Culture.pl, Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
- “The Most Famous Person You’ve Never Heard of: St. John of Nepomuk,” Culture.pl, Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
