Tadeusz Piotrowski (sociologist)

Tadeusz Piotrowski or Thaddeus Piotrowski (born 1940) is a Polish-American sociologist.

Piotrowski was born in the Polish eastern province of Volhynia where he lived with his family until August 1943 under both Soviet and German occupations during World War II. At present, he is a Professor of Sociology in the Humanities Program, Social Science Division of the University of New Hampshire at Manchester in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He lives in Manchester.

Piotrowski's research interests center around minorities as well as ethnic groups and are primarily related to their history. He is a public lecturer with over 50 university talks on the subjects of American ethnic groups, Central European history, Polish minorities, and the Holocaust. Piotrowski is a book editor, reviewer, referee for scientific papers, and a translator. His professional engagements include lectures for public and professional organizations in the United States, Canada, England and Poland.

Education

• Ph.D. in sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 1973
• M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1971
• B.A., St. Francis College, 1963

Books

• Vengeance of the Swallows: Memoir of a Polish Family's Ordeal Under Soviet Aggression, Ukrainian Ethnic Cleansing and Nazi Enslavement, and Their Emigration to America (1995), McFarland & Company, ISBN 0786400010, ISBN 0786400013
• Poland's Holocaust (1998, 2006), McFarland, ISBN 0786429134, ISBN 0786403713
• Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn (2000, 2009), McFarland, ISBN 0786442454, ISBN 0786407735
• The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England (2002, 2009), McFarland, ISBN 0786442522, ISBN 0786410981
• The Polish Deportees of World War II (2004, 2008), McFarland, ISBN 0786432585, ISBN 0786418478.

Piotrowski is the author of a number of journal articles and a book-chapter contributor to works by other authors.

Awards

Piotrowski is the recipient of the following awards:[1]

• UNH Outstanding Associate Professor Award, the Faculty Scholar Award and a three-year Carpenter Professorship Award
• The Cultural Achievement Award from the American Council for Polish Culture
• The Literary Award of the Polish Sociocultural Centre of the Polish Library in London
• The Gold Medal Award of the American Institute of Polish Culture
• The Interpreter of Perennial Wisdom Award from the Monuments Conservancy of New York.
• Certificate of Merit from the Warsaw-based Association of Combat Veterans and Former Political Prisoners of the Republic of Poland.

Sources

• Homepage at UNH