1. Eugene Francis Vincent Kusielewicz was an American historian, author, educator, and a leading spokesperson on Polish and Polish-American affairs in the United States.
15 Facts About Eugene Kusielewicz
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Eugene Kusielewicz began his teaching career in 1953 and worked at both public and private schools, before receiving a faculty appointment in the History Department at St John's University in 1955.
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Eugene Kusielewicz taught at St John's until his retirement and reached the rank of Associate Professor.
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Eugene Kusielewicz was thanked by Francis A Ierace for being his mentor in his 1978 book America and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, which was based on his master's thesis.
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Eugene Kusielewicz spent two decades as an officer of the Kosciuszko Foundation, first as assistant to the president from 1963 to 1965, then vce president, and then president.
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Eugene Kusielewicz served as the editor of the Foundation's Monthly Newsletter, and had earlier written a weekly column for the Polish American World, a newspaper that he had helped to found.
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Eugene Kusielewicz received the Haiman Medal from the Polish American Historical Association for "outstanding contributions in the field of Polish American Studies," and received Distinguished Service awards from the Polish government as well as from local civic organizations.
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Eugene Kusielewicz was appointed as a Trustee of the Brooklyn Public Library, and was inducted in 1988 into the Knights of Malta.
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Eugene Kusielewicz specialized in the rebirth of Poland at the end of World War I, and contributed numerous articles on aspects of that to both the Polish Review and Polish American Studies.
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Eugene Kusielewicz contributed book reviews to American Slavic and East European Review, Catholic Historical Review, Polish Review, Catholic Educator, Journal of Central European Affairs, East Europe, and Perspectives.
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Eugene Kusielewicz served as editor of Twayne Publishers' Library of Polish Studies, which brought several important works back into print and made others available to English readers.
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Eugene Kusielewicz was e writer and chief historical consultant for a series of seventeen half-hour films on Polish American life produced by Polish Television to celebrate the American Bicentennial.
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Eugene Kusielewicz was critical of the often negative ways that Poles and Polish Americans were portrayed in the media, which was a topic for a few of his essays and book chapters.
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Eugene Kusielewicz was an outspoken defender of the Carmelite nuns whose convent at the Auschwitz death camp had provoked widespread controversy.
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Eugene Kusielewicz appeared on both the CNBC program "McLaughlin" and the PBS show "John McLaughlin's One on One" to defend the nuns.