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Dr, Habil (2nd PhD)
KY16 9AR
United Kingdom
Accepting Postgraduate Research Students
PhD projects
Modern history and politics of Central Europe
Modern history and politics of Eastern Europe
Modern history and politics of the Balkans (Southeastern Europe)
Language politics across the globe
History of language politics
Political and social history of languages
Language building (esp. in Eurasia)
Nationalism and ethnicity studies
Nation-building across the globe
Nation-state-building
I was born in Upper Silesia, at that time in communist Poland. I received education at universities in the Czech Republic, Poland and South Africa. I did postdoctoral research at universities and institutes in Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the US. I worked in Poland and Trinity College Dublin, before moving to St Andrews in 2011.
I am an interdisciplinary historian of modern central and eastern Europe, with a focus on language politics and nationalism. In 2001 received a PhD in Political Science from the Institute of Western Affairs (Instytut Zachodni), Poznań, Poland. (It is a leading think tank of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.) A decade later, in 2011, I obtained a Habilitation ('continental 2nd PhD') in Cultural Studies from SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland. Between 1995 and 2007 I worked at Opole University, Poland, and afterward in Trinity College Dublin and Cracow University of Economics, before joining the University of St Andrews in 2011. Meanwhile, I did research as a postdoctoral fellow in the European University Insitute in Florence, the Kluge Center for Scholars in the Library of Congress, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, the Herder-Institut in Marburg, and the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center in Sapporo, Japan.
In the first decade of the 21st century I published several books on the history and politics of language in Upper Silesia and across central Europe. In 2007, the Purdue University Press (West Lafayette IN) brought out my doctoral monograph on how ethnic and national groups emerged in Silesia, between 1848 and 1918, from the early modern society of unequal estates. Two years later, in 2009, Palgrave published my highly-acclaimed encyclopedia-size Habilitation work on how languages and nationalisms were constructed across modern central Europe, leading to the emergence of ethnolinguistic nation-states in this region. As a result, in central Europe, the nation is defined as all speakers of a language, for whom a state should be carved out with diregard for any historical borders or polities.
The methodological problem is that historians treat language as a 'black box,' while linguists perceive languages as ahistorical entities. For both groups I wrote a brief monograph (Palgrave 2015) on how languages were constructed in line with political needs in Europe during the last millennium. I followed with another 'corrective' monograph (Palgrave 2017) on the nationally-induced anachronism of treating the early modern Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania as an 'early Poland,' or an 'early Lithuania.'
With scholars from Australia, Europe, Israel, Japan and Zimbabwe I co-edited volumes on the political and social history of languages in southern Africa (Pagrave 2018) and in Slavophone Europe (Palgrave 2016), alongside a volume on modernity and national identity in Upper Silesia (Routledge 2016). Recently, I published a monograph on the unduly forgotten 1989 ethnic clenaisng of Bulgaria's Turks, which precipitated the end of communism in this country (Routledge 2018).
At present I work on Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe, the politics of the number of Slavic languages during the last two centuries, and the transfer of the idea of the ethnolinguistci nation state from central Europe to southeast Asia and Ethiopia. For further details see my profiles on Academia.edu and ResearchGate.
I am an interdisciplinary historian of modern central and eastern Europe, with a focus on language politics and nationalism. In 2001 received a PhD in Political Science from the Institute of Western Affairs (Instytut Zachodni), Poznań, Poland. (It is a leading think tank of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.) A decade later, in 2011, I obtained a Habilitation ('continental 2nd PhD') in Cultural Studies from SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland. Between 1995 and 2007 I worked at Opole University, Poland, and afterward in Trinity College Dublin and Cracow University of Economics, before joining the University of St Andrews in 2011. Meanwhile, I did research as a postdoctoral fellow in the European University Insitute in Florence, the Kluge Center for Scholars in the Library of Congress, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, the Herder-Institut in Marburg, and the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center in Sapporo, Japan.
In the first decade of the 21st century I published several books on the history and politics of language in Upper Silesia and across central Europe. In 2007, the Purdue University Press (West Lafayette IN) brought out my doctoral monograph on how ethnic and national groups emerged in Silesia, between 1848 and 1918, from the early modern society of unequal estates. Two years later, in 2009, Palgrave published my highly-acclaimed encyclopedia-size Habilitation work on how languages and nationalisms were constructed across modern central Europe, leading to the emergence of ethnolinguistic nation-states in this region. As a result, in central Europe, the nation is defined as all speakers of a language, for whom a state should be carved out with diregard for any historical borders or polities.
The methodological problem is that historians treat langauge as a 'black box,' while linguists perceive languages as ahistorical entities. For both groups I wrote a brief monograph (Palgrave 2015) on how langauges were constructed in line with political needs in Europe during the last millennium. I followed with another 'corrective' monograph (Palgrave 2017) on the nationally-induced anachronism of treating the early modern Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania as an 'early Poland,' or an 'early Lithuania.'
With scholars from Australia, Europe, Israel, Japan and Zimbabwe I co-edited volumes on the political and social history of languages in southern Africa (Pagrave 2018) and in Slavophone Europe (Palgrave 2016), alongside a volume on modernity and national identity in Upper Silesia (Routledge 2016). Recently, I published a monograph on the unduly forgotten 1989 ethnic clenaisng of Bulgaria's Turks, which precipitated the end of communism in this country (Routledge 2018).
At present I work on Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe, the politics of the number of Slavic languages during the last two centuries, and the transfer of the idea of the ethnolinguistci nation state from central Europe to southeast Asia and Ethiopia. For further details see my profiles on Academia.edu and ResearchGate.
Former Phd & MPhil students
Honours modules
Masters (MLitt) modules
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
: Habilition (2nd PhD) Degree in Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland., SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw
2007 → 2011
Award Date: 11 Nov 2011
PhD in Political Science, Institute of Western Affairs (Instytut Zachodni), Poznań, Poland., Institute of Western Affairs (Instytut Zachodni)
1995 → 2001
Award Date: 21 Feb 2001
MA in European Studies with Distinction, Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Budapest & Prague; accredited by The Open University, London, United Kingdom , Central European University
1993 → 1994
Award Date: 22 Jun 1994
MA in English Philology – ELT (English Language Teaching) Specialization, Institute of General Linguistics and English Philology, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland , University of Silesia in Katowice
1986 → 1992
Award Date: 24 Jun 1992
MA in English – South African Literature, Department of English, Potchefstroom University, Potchefstroom, South Africa., Potchefstroom University
Jan 1991 → Sept 1991
Award Date: 11 Feb 1992
Foreign Visitor Fellow, Hokkaido University
1 Jun 2011 → 31 Dec 2011
Adjunkt (Senior Lecturer), Cracow University of Economics
1 Sept 2010 → 30 Aug 2011
Thomas Brown Lecturer in Polish Studies, Trinity College Dublin
1 Sept 2007 → 31 Aug 2010
Research Fellows, Herder-Institut Marburg
1 Jul 2006 → 30 Sept 2006
Mellon Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen)
1 Jun 2005 → 30 Sept 2005
Postoctoral Research Fellow, United States of America Library of Congress
1 Sept 2003 → 30 Jul 2004
Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute
1 Aug 2002 → 30 Jun 2003
Adjunkt (Senior Lecturer), University of Opole
1 Mar 2001 → 30 Aug 2010
Regional President's Advisor on International Cooperation (Doradca Marszałka ds. Współpracy z Zagranicą), Self-Governmental Regional Authority of Opole Region
1 Feb 1999 → 31 Aug 2001
Opole Governor's Advisor on European Integration to the Regional Governor (Pełnomocnik Wojewody ds. Integracji Europejskiej), Opolski Urząd Wojewódzki (Opole Regional Authority)
1 Mar 1996 → 31 Jan 1999
Lecturer, University of Opole
1 Sept 1995 → 28 Feb 2001
Lecturer, Teachers' Language College (Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych)
1 Sept 1994 → 30 Sept 1995
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Kamusella, T. D. (Creator), University of St Andrews, 28 Feb 2019
DOI: 10.17630/57df75dc-2316-44e4-b3cf-505565e20925
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Kamusella, T. D. (Creator), University of St Andrews, 29 Nov 2018
DOI: 10.17630/6a7fbd6e-39b7-4256-aabf-264324424939
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Kamusella, T. (PI)
1/01/15 → 31/12/15
Project: Standard
Kamusella, T. (PI)
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
31/03/14 → 30/03/15
Project: Standard
Kamusella, T. (PI)
10/06/12 → 9/09/12
Project: Standard
Kamusella, T. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Kamusella, T. (External examiner)
Activity: Examination types › External reviewing
Kamusella, T. (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
Kamusella, T. (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
Kamusella, T. (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
Kamusella, T. D. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: National/international honour
17/08/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Relating to Research
4/11/22
1 Media contribution
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13/10/22
1 Media contribution
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13/10/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Relating to Research
27/05/22
1 item of Media coverage
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Kamusella, T. (Participant)
Impact: Public Policy Impact