Geneviève Zubrzycki

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Geneviève Zubrzycki (born c. 1970) is a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan (2003–present) and director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. She holds degrees from McGill University (B.A., 1992), Université de Montréal (M.Sc., sociology, 1995), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., sociology, 2002).[1] She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021.[2]

Books[]

Her book The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (University of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-99304-3, 277pp.) earned her several awards, including the "AAASS and Orbis Books Outstanding Book Award in Polish Studies", American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (2007); "Distinguished Book Award", Sociology of Religion Section, American Sociological Association (2007); and "Biennial Kulczycki Book Prize", Polish Studies Association (2008). The book studies national identity and Catholicism in Poland after the fall of Communism via an examination of memory wars between Poles and Jews, and the international conflict over the presence of Christian symbols at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was translated into Polish as Krzyże w Auschwitz. Tożsamość narodowa, nacjonalizm i religia w postkomunistycznej Polsce (Nomos, 2014, ISBN 9788376881713, 295 pp.).[3]

Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion and Secularism in Quebec (University of Chicago Press, 2016, ISBN 9780226391717, 224 pp.) received the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Political Sociology Section (2017).[4] The book analyzes the transformation of Quebec from a "priest-ridden province" to a strongly secular society during the "Quiet Revolution" of the 1960s. It also won the International Society for the Study of Religion: ISSR Best Book Award and the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association: The John Porter Prize.[5]

(Editor and author) National Matters: Materiality, Culture and Nationalism (Stanford University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781503602533, 288 pp.). The collection or essays of several authors "investigates the role of material culture and materiality in defining and solidifying national identity in everyday practice" basing on "a series of theoretically grounded and empirically rich case studies".[6]

She is working on a monograph with a tentative title Resurrecting the Jew: Antisemitism, Philosemitism and National Identity in Contemporary Poland.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Genevieve Zubrzycki curriculum vitae" (PDF).
  2. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Geneviève Zubrzycki". Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  3. ^ "Genevieve Zubrzycki profile at the UMich website" (PDF).
  4. ^ Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Section Awards, ASAPSS
  5. ^ Beheading the Saint, publisher's book summary
  6. ^ National Matters, publisher's book summary
  7. ^ "Geneviève Zubrzycki", profile at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia
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