University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Visiting Fellow
Duration of stay: June 2024

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Geneviève Zubrzycki is William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies. A historical and cultural sociologist, she has published widely on nationalism and religion; collective memory, national mythology and the politics of commemoration; and visual culture and materiality. She’s the author of the award-winning  The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (Chicago 2006), Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion and Secularism in Quebec (Chicago 2016), and Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism and Poland’s Jewish Revival (Princeton 2022).In 2021 Zubrzycki was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and was awarded the Bronislaw Malinowski Prize in the Social Sciences from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. Her latest book, Resurrecting the Jew, was awarded the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize by the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences, and the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award by Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America for its contribution to Polish-Jewish Studies.

On 6 June at 14:15, Prof. Zubrzycki will give a talk on Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival as part of the joint Research Colloquium with GS OSES (UR) at the Altes Finanzamt (Room 319). All are welcome to attend.

She will also participate in the more informal meet-and-greet session for visiting researchers on 11 June at 13:00 in S.214, which offers an opportunity to get to know international guests visiting Regensburg.