Patrice Dabrowski

Ph.D. Harvard, 1999
Lecturer & Assistant Head Tutor, History Department
Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Contact Information
Robinson Hall 102
(617) 496-3425
pmdabrow@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests
East-Central Europe, especially the lands between Russia and Germany (historically, the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth); commemorations and festivals; borderlands; the Carpathians; questions of identity (local, regional, national), civilization and backwardness; popular culture and religion; environmental history.

Current Projects
"Discovering" the Carpathians: a look at the encounter with the environment and peoples of the alpine borderlands (book-length project); articles on 19th century popular religion (apparitions), Cracow urban history, the relationship between the artist and the nation in partitioned Poland, and the competition between Poles and Russians for Slavic hegemony.

Selected Publications
"What Kind of Modernity Did Poles Need? A Look at Nineteenth-Century Nation-Making" (book review article), Nationalities Papers 29, no. 3 (September 2001): 509-523

"Folk, Faith, and Fatherland: Defining the Polish Nation in 1883," Nationalities Papers 28, no. 3 (September 2000): 397-416

A book-length manuscript entitled "Reinventing Poland: Commemorations and the Shaping of the Modern Nation, 1879-1914" and a book review article entitled "Russian-Polish Relations Revisited, or, An ABC's of Treason under Tsarist Rule" are presently being considered for publication.