Maciej Janowski - Curriculum Vitae#
- ed. History Dept., Warsaw University (1982-1987), specialisation: Polish and East-Central European 19th century history.
- Full professor, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences; Recurrent Visiting Professor, Central European University, Budapest (1993-1994 and since 1999).
- Doctor of Historical Sciences 1993
- Habilitation (“Doktor habilitowany”, Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 1999 )
- Full professor (“ordinary professor”) 2010.
- Soros Scholar at Jesus College, Oxford University, September 1989-June 1990;
- Scholarship of the Fundacja na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej (12 months, 1993)
- Junior Visiting Fellow, Institut fuer die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, January-June 1997.
- Humboldt Scholarship, Berlin, Zentrum fuer Vergleichende Geschichte Europas, Freie Universitaet Berlin (September 2004-August 2005)
- Collegium Budapest, January-March 2008
- Central European University, Budapest: 1993-1994 (MA course on Polish history with Prof. Elzbieta Kaczynska),
- 1999- MA Course “Liberalism in East Central Europe and in lands of Partitioned Poland”, 1999-2000; “Nationalism and its rivals”, 2001-2004; “Justifying Political Power in 19th century Europe” (since 2006) "Centres and peripherries in the European thought, Enlightenment to the Present" (since 2013).
- April-July 2004, Visiting professor (Professorvertreter) ((lecture and two seminars; 6 hours per week (in German)
Warsaw University:
- Classes at the Historical Faculty, (1993-1995) (one course taught, 2 hours per week)
- Deputy-editor, “Kwartalnik Historyczny” (Warsaw)
- Editor of “East Central Europe – L’Europe du Centre-Est” (Budapest)
- 2005-2008 Collaborator of the project “Representations of the Past: the Writing of National Histories in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe (NHIST, 2003-08)”, co-ordinated by Prof. Chris Lorenz and Prof. Stefan Berger. (Team 2)
- Since 2008 collaborator of the project “Negotiating Modernity” co-ordinated by Prof. Balazs Trencsenyi
Selected Publications:
Books:
Inteligencja wobec wyzwań nowoczesności. Dylematy ideowe polskiej liberalnej demokracji w Galicji 1889-1914, [The Intelligentsia and the challenges of Modernity. Ideological dilemmas of Polish liberal democracy in Galicia, 1889-1914], Instytut Historii PAN, Warsaw 1996.
Polish Liberal Thought before 1918, CEU Press, Budapest-New York 2004.
Narodziny Inteligencji 1750-1831 [The Birth of the Intelligentsia]], Instytut Historii PAN – Neriton, Warsaw 2008 (as the 1st volume in 3-volume “History of Polish Intelligentsia”, ed. Jerzy Jedlicki). (Forthcoming in English, in Peter Lang]
Articles
Wavering Friendship: liberal and national ideas in nineteenth century East-Central Europe “Ab Imperio”, No 3-4/2000, p. 69-90.
Eőtvős és Heybowicz (Egy összehasonlitás vázlata) , “Aetas”, No 4/2000, p. 134-141. (Both above texts appeared in early 2001, although they are dated 2000)
O historię polskiego liberalizmu w XIX wieku ( w odpowiedzi na artykuł N. Bończy-Tomaszewskiego) [On the History of the Polish Liberalism in the 19th Century (answer to N. Bończa-Tomaszewski’s article]] – „Kwartalnik Historyczny”, nr 2/2002, s. 101-118.
Three Historians, „CEU History Department Yearbook 2001-2002”, s. 199-232. (also in Hungarian in the monthly „2000”, February/2004, as “Három történész Közep-Európából”)
Czas Wielkiego Przełomu? O przydatnosci pojęcia modernizacji do badań nad dziejami XIX w [Time of the Great Breakthrough? On the Usefulness of the Concept of Modernisation for the History of the 19th Century]], in: “Pamiętnik 16 Powszechnego Zjazdu Historyków Polskich Wrocław 1999” [Proceedings of the 16th General Congress of Polish Historians]], Toruń 2000. (in fact, appeared only in 2002)
W przededniu nowego nacjonalizmu, [On the Eve of the New Nationalism]] „Przegląd Polityczny” No 56, 2002, p. 95-103.
Лемберґ 1916 – Львів 2002. Роздуми над старим путівником [Lemberg 1916-Lviv 2002. Reflections on an old Guidebook] „Krytyka” (Kiev), No 7-8/2002. The same in Polish: Rozmyślania nad starym przewodnikiem, „Znak” 2003, No 1 p. 86-92; No 2, p. 133-142.
Justifying Political Power: The Habsburg Monarchy and Beyond, in: Imperial Rule, ed. A. Miller, A. Rieber, Budapest 2005 (CEU Press).
Marginal or Central? The Place of the Liberal Tradition in 19th Century Polish History, in: Liberty and the Search of Identity, ed. I.Z. Denes, Budapest 2006 (CEU Press).
Mirrors for the nation: Imagining the national past among the Poles and Czechs in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in: “The Contested Nation. Ethnicity, Class Religion and Gender in National Histories”, ed. S. Berger, C. Lorenz, Basingstoke 2008, Palgrave – Macmillan, p. 442-462.
Galizien auf dem Weg zur Zivilgesellschaft, in: „Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918“, Bd VIII/1, ed. P. Urbanitsch, Wien 2006, p. 805-858.
Polen im 19. Jahrhundert: Europa an der Weichsel?, in: „Europas Platz in Polen. Polnische Europa-Konzeptionen vom Mittelalter bis zum EU-Beitritt“, ed. C. Kraft, K. Steffen, Osnabrück 2007, p. 131-156.
Civis ambulans, oder: Mit dem Baedeker durch Österreich-Ungarn, in: “Der genormte Blick aufs Fremde. Reiseführer in und über Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert”, Herausgegeben von Rudolf Jaworski, Peter Oliver Loew und Christian Pletzing, Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Polen-Instituts, Bd. 28, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2011, p. 73-92.
Ex Ossibus Ultor: Virgil, Ezekiel and the transformation of the Polish national idea after 1795, in: “Multiple antiquities, multiple modernities : ancient histories in nineteenth century European cultures” / Gábor Klaniczay, Michael Werner, Ottó Gecser (eds.) Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag,