Piotr H. Kosicki

Associate Professor Piotr H. Kosicki specializes in transnational European history at the University of Maryland, College Park's Department of History, within the College of Arts and Humanities. His research focuses on religion (particularly Catholicism), politics, and historical memory in Eastern and Western Europe, with emphasis on Ukraine, Poland, and Latin America. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and has authored Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and 'Revolution,' 1891-1956 (Yale UP, 2018) and edited volumes like Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century (2021). He has received the Aquila Polonica Prize and been shortlisted for major historical awards.

• Education: Ph.D. in History, Princeton University

Research interests include entangled histories of activist networks, Christian Democracy’s role in post-communism, and apocalyptic thought in modern Europe. He advocates for Ukrainian scholars displaced by Russia’s invasion and hosts a monthly podcast on New Books Network.

• Awards: 2015 Aquila Polonica Prize, Oskar Halecki Prize (shortlisted), Kazimierz Moczarski Award (shortlisted)

Current projects explore anti-communist social justice narratives in Venezuela, Judeo-Christian apocalypticism, and Central and Eastern Europe’s transnational trajectory. He has held prestigious fellowships, including the Sheptyts’kyi Senior Fellowship (2021) and ACLS/Mellon grants, and serves on editorial boards of journals like Canadian Slavonic Papers.