Dr

Andrzej W.

Tymowski

a.tymowski@al.uw.edu.pl

Bio

Raised and educated in the United States
 [Born in Germany after WWII, emigrated to USA in 1950]

  • B.A. Classics (Honors Program) at John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968
  • M.A. Philosophy at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1972
  • M.A. International Relations, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut, 1988
  • Ph.D. Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1995

Social movement activity
 [Among others, anti-Vietnam War protests, the Catholic Worker, the Industrial Workers of the World, and organizing support for Solidarność in the USA] Related publications

  • The Strike in Gdansk, 1981, and Solidarity under Siege 1983, self-published
  • “Le Syndicate ‘Solidarite,‘”  L’Arc, Paris, 1984
  • “‘Freedom and Peace’ in Poland,” The Nation, May 23, 1987
  • “Who Benefits from East Germany’s Changes?” Boston Globe, September 6, 1987
  • “Conversations with the Polish Underground,” New Politics, Winter 1987
  • “Solidarity Tries Unity for the Big Vote,” New York Newsday, December 7, 1990
  • “O Populizmie, Kosciele, i Przyszlosci Partii Politycznych” [“On Populism, the Church, and the Future of Political Parties], interview with Juan Linz, Res Publica (Warszawa), no. 6/91, June 1991
  • “Mass Movements and Democratic Politics,” interview with Karol Modzelewski, New Politics, Winter 1992
  • “Wstrzymać Pozar Etnicznych Dzungli” [“Stop Burning Ethnic Jungles”], interview with Ivo  Banac, Gazeta Wyborcza (Warsaw), August 10, 1993
  • “Korzenie Kontrreform,” Rzeczpospolita, Warszawa, październik 21-22, 1995
  • “KOD—Gwarant Fair Play,” Rzeczpospolita, Warszawa, maj 20, 2016
  • “Tocqueville in Ukraine: Civil Society in the Academic Community” TheBridge-MOCT.org, Volume 5, Issue 1 (34), 2016
  • “Philosopher on the Streets of Belarus (on election protests),” by Tatiana Shchyttsova, ed. and trans. by AWT, ASEEES NewsNet, 2020

Related activities, arts and culture

  • The “Art of Solidarity,” co-organized an exhibit of posters and martial law artifacts, which toured, among others, Yale University, Harvard University, and the Russell Office Building of the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C., 1982-84
  • “Far From Poland,” consulted on a feature-length documentary film by Jill Godmilow,1984
  • “The Political Drama of Stanislawa Przybyszewska,” Theatre, magazine of the Yale School of Drama/Repertory Theatre, Winter/Spring 1990.
  • The Drawings of Bruno Schulz, ed. by Jerzy Ficowski, book review in The Polish Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1991.
  • “Human Solidarity, Polish Solidarność,” [co-authored an historical exhibit of Solidarność roots in the1970s opposition, Consulate of the Republic of Poland, New York, 2010

Teaching

  • Department of Political Science, Emory University, Atlanta, 1993-4
  • College seminars at Yale University 1984, 1986, 1995, 1996
  • Intensive seminars at MISH, UW, 1997,1999, 2001-2005
  • Courses at the Kolegium Artes Liberales, 2006-2019: “Sztuka Pracy Naukowej” (co-taught); “Academic Writing in English”; “Reading as Reasoning,”

Writing workshops

  • In Poland, Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, 1997-2019
  • At Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, 2023, 2024
  • Manuscript Development Workshops in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda, 2013-2019

Director of International Programs, American Council of Learned Societies 1995—2021
Projects 

Programs of fellowships and grants

  • Research fellowships and language training in East Europe studies, 2000- 2011
  • Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine 1998-2012
  • East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History, 2005–2011
  • African Humanities Program, 2008–2017 “Recommendations for Reinvigorating the Humanities in Africa,” December 2014 https://africanstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Reinvigorating_the_Humanities_in_Africa.pdf
  • China Studies Program, 2012-2021
  • Buddhist Studies Program, 2014-2021

After retirement in 2021
Engaged in a new combination of social activism, academic administration, teaching, and writing:

  • Established EEPS Foundation, serves as president, www.eepsfoundation.org, 2024-present
  • Co-organized and co-directsthe Flying University for Ukrainian Students, www.flying-university.org,  2022-present
  • Teaches at the Wydział Artes Liberales: “Academic Writing in English: Ethics, Structure, and Style,” 2024-present

Publications

  • “Universalist claims and local perspectives: Decolonizing ‘Academic Writing in English” in Topos, 2024: European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania DOI: https://doi.org/10.61095/815-0047-2024-2-206-227

  • “The German Democratic Republic and the Revolution that Wasn’t,” with Łukasz Gałecki, in East European Politics and Societies (EEPS), August 2009

  • “From Sign to Signal: Lessons from two texts on liberal education in Poland and Russia,” in Znakowe Wartości Kultury, Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2015

  • “Liberal Education and the Intercultural Classroom” in College/Collegium/Kolegium, jointly published by the University of Warsaw and Boston College, Warsaw: Sub Lupa Publishers, 2010

  • “Keeping Silent, Keeping Faith” in Silent Intelligentsia: A Study of Civilizational Oppression, ed. Jan Kieniewicz. Warsaw: IBI “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw, 2009

  • “Apologies for Jedwabne and Modernity,” in EEPS, Winter 2002

  • “Roots of Counter-reform,”  Problems of Post-Communism,  May 1995

  • “Youth Activism in the East European Transformation,” Introduction to a special issue, guest-edited by AWT, of Communist and Post-Communist Studies, June 1994

  • “Poland’s Unwanted Social Revolution,” in  EEPS, Spring 1993

  • “The Other Poland,” in Telos No. 92,  Fall 1992

  • “Workers vs. Intellectuals in Solidarność,” in Telos, December 1991

  • Toward a Rational Society by Jurgen Habermas, review in Telos, Summer 1971

  • Świadomość Religijna I Więź Kościelna by Leszek Kołakowski, review in Telos, Fall 1970

 

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