Jakub Basista

                             Curriculum Vitae

 

 

E-mail: basista@chello.pl

Education:

1982-1985 Institute of History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków.

1977-1984 Institute of Mathematics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków.

1973-1977 August Witkowski High School, Kraków.

 

Degrees:

1991 -  Ph.D. in History at the Jagiellonian University

1985 -  M.A. in History at the Jagiellonian University

1984 -  M.Sc. in Mathematics at the Jagiellonian University

 

Work Experience:

Teaching:

1985 – present; Institute of History at the Jagiellonian University

2003 – present; Department of English Philology at WSP TWP (Pedagogical College) in Warsaw

1985-present: lectures, tutorials and seminars in early modern (16th-18th centuries) and modern (19th century) world and Polish history at the Jagiellonian University (Institute of History); each year about five/six courses taught to undergraduate students of history. In all over 8000 hours of tutorials, lectures, seminars taught in the past 20 years.

Courses taught in English for foreign students:

·        Polish 20th Century History taught in English to Norwegian students at the Jagiellonian University.

·        [1] Survey of Polish pre-1939 History; [2]History of Central Europe 1945-1995 taught in English at School of Central and Eastern European Studies of the Jagiellonian University.

·        [1]Political and Social History of Central Europe in the Twentieth Century; [2]Formation of Modern European States 1648-2000; [3]History of the Present taught in English at MA program in European studies for foreign students in English at the Jagiellonian University.

·        History of Poland taught to international students in English at the School Of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University.

·        An Outline of Polish pre 20th Century History taught for Erasmus students.

·        History of England taught in English for students of Pedagogical University in Warsaw (WSP TWP).

·        History of the USA taught in English for students of Pedagogical University in Warsaw (WSP TWP).

Over 70 lectures on Polish modern and contemporary history of Poland, Poland’s integration with EU delivered (in English) to foreign (mostly American) students in Vienna (America Institut; Institute of European Studies; Vienna University) and Kraków (Midwest Consortium for Study Abroad; Haderslev Statsseminarium, Denmark; Dartmore Institute, Prague) in the years 1989-2008; topics centered on history of Kraków, contemporary political, economic issues, on the church and recent changes in Poland. Guest lectures held in 1997 at Yale University, Drexel University and Millikin University in the USA.

Over 50 lectures on Polish contemporary history; on nationalism in the nineteenth century Central Europe; on History and Mythology delivered (in English) to students from Central Europe and NIS during summer school sessions of College for New Europe in Kraków in 1994-2002.

 

Administrative:

April 1992 – June 1994: Representative and Coordinator for Poland of Central European University Higher Education Support Programme.

April 1994 – June 2002: Country Director of Civic Education Project in Poland.

July 2000 – June 2002: Country Director of Civic Education Project in the Baltic States and Kaliningrad.

 

Other:

2005 – 2006; member of the Editorial Board of Cognitio a graduate humanities journal published by Pantadora Press, USA.

1995 - present: Secretary to the Editor of HISTORYKA, a professional yearly devoted to methodology of history and historiography. The only periodical of such profile in Central Europe. Responsibilities: preparation and edition of each issue for print; talks with authors and the publisher.

1980 - 1992: over 500 guided tours of Kraków (about 300 in English), among others some of the VIP guests of the Rector of the Jagiellonian University.

 

Scholarships, study trips, awards:

2005 – Lanckoronski Fund scholarship for research at the British Library in London (one  month).

2003 – Lanckoronski Fund scholarship for study at the British Library in London (one month)

1996 – Three weeks research at Yale University Library.

1995 – Award of the Rector of the Jagiellonian University for outstanding research and publications.

1992 - Oxford Colleges Hospitality Scheme scholar at Merton College, Oxford (one month);

1987/88 - Soros scholar at St. Antony's College, Oxford (full academic year);

1989, 1990 - monthly study trips to London and Oxford (LSE, Senior Visitor at St.Antony's College).

Selected Presentations:

Papers delivered at conferences (P) means in Polish; (E) means in English:

Among others - First English colony in America (P) (Kraków 1993); W.Laud's role in the English Civil War (P) (Wrocław 1993); Axiology, History and Mythology (P) (Łódź 1994); English Slaves in Algeria in the Seventeenth Century (P) (Kraków 1996).

Paper delivered at AHA conference in New York, USA on: Soviet Influence on History Teaching and Textbooks in Poland (E) (New York 1997).

Paper on Why write history?(E)  delivered in Krakow, Poland in May 2000.

Paper on: On visits to Holy Places by Sarmatian Travelers (P) presented in Krakow, Poland in November 2002.

Paper on: Is Ethics Possible in Teaching and Learning at Polish Universities a Decade after the ‘Velvet Revolution’?(E) presented in London, England in November 2002.

Paper on: The Image of Provincial Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Foreign Accounts in the early Modern Period (P) presented in Lubostron, Poland in May 2003.

Paper on: Protestants in Poland-Lithuania in the Second half of the Seventeenth Century (E) presented in Aberdeen, Scotland in December 2003.

Paper on: England and Scotland between Unions, 1603-1707 (P) presented in Krakow, Poland in May 2004.

Paper on: The Idea of Antemurale Christianitatis in the Polish Political Thought in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century (E) delivered at a conference in Appeldoorn in January 2005.

Paper on: Europeae peregrinatio (E) delivered at a conference in Hong Kong in July 2005.

Paper on: James I (VI)’s Vision of Royal Power (P) delivered in Łódź in November 2005.

 

Organizational:

A conference on: Britain and Poland-Lithuania – Contact and Comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795 organized single-handed in September 16 - 18, 2005, in Cracow, Poland.

Two professional international history conferences organized single-handed in Krakow, Poland. In May 2000 on “Writing and Rewriting History at the turn of Centuries; the State of the Discipline in Central Europe”. In November 2002 on “Ethics and Historiography”. Each brought together about 35 presentations and participants from about 20 countries.

 

Over a dozen student conferences, workshops, debates organized and co-organized within the framework of the Civic Education Project in the years 1992-2002.

Interests: good classical music and good literature; tourism and sightseeing; carpentry.

 

Selected Publications:

Books, author, co-author, editor:

·        Jews in Old Poland – co-edited with Antony Polonsky and Andrzej Link-Lenczowski; London 1993 (published by I.B.Tauris, London, New York).

·        Anglia, świat i gwiazdy (England, the World and the Stars) - Kraków 1994 (Jagiellonian University Press);

·        Propaganda religijna w przededniu i pierwszych latach angielskiej wojny domowej – Kraków 2007 (Historia Jagiellonica Press)

·        Kalendarium dziejów Polski (Polish History), ed. Andrzej Chwalba (Co-author; author of sixteenth – eighteenth centuries), Kraków 1999, second ed. 2001, p. 296-460.

·        Wielka Brytania (Great Britain) in: Encyklopedia Historyczna Świata (Historic Encyclopedia of the World), ed. Andrzej Pankowicz, Antoni Podraza, vol. IX,  Kraków 2001, p. 299-348.

·        Poland in: G.T.Kurian,  Encyclopedia of World’s Nations (Facts on File Library of World History), Facts on File 2002, vol. III. , p. 1716-1734.

·        Systemy polityczne w Europie, Anglia w drugiej połowie XVII wieku, Kolonizacja obu Ameryk, (Political systems; England in the 17th c.; Colonisation of Americas) in: Wielka Historia Świata, Wiek XVII (Great History of the World), ed. Antoni Podraza, Fogra, Kraków 2005.

·        Poland – Left; Poland – Right; Solidarity [w:] Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and the Right, red. Rodney P. Carlisle, Sage Publications 2005.

·        Czartoryski, Adam (s. 280-281); Poland (s. 761-762); Polish Forces (s. 762-765); Poniatowski, Józef (s. 766-768); Russo-Polish War (s. 851-852); Saxony (s. 879-880) [in:] The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars”, red. Gregory Fremont-Barnes, ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara, California 2006.

·        Berman, Bierut, Gierek, Gomułka, Jaruzelski, Solidarity, Wałęsa, Wyszyński, [in:] The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social and Military History, red. S. Tucker, ABC Clio, Santa Barbara, California 2007.

·        Catherine II, Impact of Revolutionary Thought on Poland, Partitions of Poland, Polish Constitution, Polish Revolutions, Revolutionary Calendar, [in:] Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, red. Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Greenwood Press 2007.

 

Articles and Review Articles:

·        Błogosławiony Szymon z Lipnicy (Blessed Simon of Lipnica), "Tygodnik Powszechny" 1982, no. 29.

·        Francja w opinii szlachty polskiej (France in the Eyes of Polish Nobility), "Studia Historyczne" 1987, XXX, 119(4), p. 651-659.

·        Z dziejów stosunków polsko-angielskich w epoce nowożytnej (From the History of Polish-English Relations in the Early Modern Period), "Studia Historyczne" 1989, XXXII, 127(4), p. 629-641.

·        Kilka uwag o konstytucyjnych przyczynach angielskiej wojny domowej (Several Comments on the Constitutional Causes of the English Civil War) "Sobótka" 1992, 1-2.

·        Spór wokół Arminianizmu; czy arcybiskup Laud wywołał angielską rewolucję? (Debate on Arminianism; Did archbishop Laud cause the English Revolution?) [in:] Studia z dziejów kultury i mentalności czasów nowożytnych, ed. Krystyn Matwijowski, Bogdan Rok, Wrocław 1993, p. 113-124..

·        Jesteś ślicznie ubrany, czyli pierwsza angielska kolonia w Ameryce (Your Dress is Beautiful, or the First English Colony in America) [in:] Europa-Ameryka od X do XX wieku, ed. Krzysztof Baczkowski, Kraków 1993, p. 89-101..

·        Więcej o angielskiej rewolucji w XVII wieku (More on the English Revolution in the Seventeenth Century) [in:] "HISTORYKA", XXV, 1995, p. 89-97.

·        Historia, aksjologia, mity (History, axiology, myths) [in:] Historia, mity, interpretacja, ed. Alina Barszczewska-Krupa, Łódź 1996.

·        Soviet Influence on History Teaching and Textbooks in Poland [in:]  “OAH Council of Chairs Newsletter”, No 55, February 1997, Bloomington, p. 9-14.

·        Trzy siedemnastowieczne relacje angielskie o nieszczęśliwym porwaniu, okrutnej niewoli i cudownym wyzwoleniu z niewoli algierskiej (Three Seventeenth Century English Relations on the Miserable Capture, Terrible Captivity and Miraculous Relief from Algerian Slavery) [in:] Niewolnictwo i niewolnicy w Europie od starożytności po czasy nowożytne, ed. Danuta Quirini-Popławska, Kraków 1998, pp. 187-195.

·        O nawiedzaniu miejsc świętych przez sarmackich podróżników (On Visits to Holy Places Undertaken by Sarmatrian Travellers), [in:] Rzeczpospolita wielu wyznań, ed: Adam Kaźmierczyk, Andrzej Link-Lenczowski, Mariusz Markiewicz, Krystyn Matwijowski, Kraków 2004, pp. 281-291.

·        Anglia i Szkocja między uniami (1603-1707) (England and Scotland Between Unions – 1603-1707), [in:]  Europe unii i federacji, ed. Krzysztof Ślusarek, Kraków 2004, pp131-140.

 

Book Reviews and Short Notices:

About 30 book reviews and short notices in Polish and foreign historical journals. In English in POLIN (1988 vol. III; 1990 vol. V, 1998 vol. XI) and EHR (414, Jan. '90; 416, July '90; 420 July '91; 430 February '94; 446, April ‘97), SCN (vol. 62, Nos. 1&2, 2004; vol. 62, Nos. 3&4, 2004).

 

Other, Varia:

About 50 entries to Polish Encyclopaedias on history.

Selective bibliography of Polish publications on the history of universities for the years 1989-1994: History of Universities, vols IX-XIV, publ. 1990-1995.