Andrew K. Wise, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
235 Duns Scotus Hall
839-882181
Email: awise@daemen.edu

Education

Ph.D. History, University of Virginia. January 1996.
M.A. History, University of Virginia. January 1990.
A.B. History, with honors; A.B. Russian Area Studies.
Summa cum laude. University of Missouri — Columbia. May 1987.

Courses Taught

HIS 109, 110, 111. Western Civilization HIS 319 20th Century Russia and Eastern Europe
HIS 206 Twentieth Century Europe
HIS 324 Introduction to Global Environmental History
HIS 229 History and Film
HG 331 Reading List for Juniors
HIS 313, 314 Russian History
HG 443 Senior Research Project
HIS 315 Modern Political Thought
LIT 247 Golden Age of Russian Literature

Research and Teaching Interests

Current Research Projects

Preparation of abridged and annotated translation of Waclaw Lednicki’s Pamietniki (Memoirs) for publication.

Research Presentations (Since 1997)

Chair for panel “Post-Soviet Discourses of the West.” AAASS (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies) 35th National Convention in Toronto, Canada. 23 November 2003.

Paper entitled “Russia and the West: ‘Clash of Civilizations” in the Historiography of Feliks Koneczny.” AAASS 35th National Convention in Toronto, Canada. 21 November 2003.

Public lecture for Polish Arts Club of Buffalo. “Poles on Poland’s Role in the World: From Mickiewicz to Kwasniewski.” Buffalo, NY. 15 October 2003.

Guest lecture for Summer Lab Noontime Lectures. University of Illinois, Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe. “Poland and the Clash of Civilizations.” 1 July 2003.

Paper entitled “The Problem of Russian Historical Identity in the Thought of Feliks Koneczny.” New York State Association of European Historians. 52nd Annual Conference. Canisius College. Buffalo, New York. 21 September 2002.

Paper entitled “Jerzy Kurnatowski and Solidarism: The Polish ‘Third Way’ of Economic Development.” Tenth Annual Plesur Conference at SUNY Buffalo. 3 March 2001.

Paper entitled “Jerzy Kurnatowski and Polish Solidarism.” Inaugural Conference of The International Consortium of Social Theory. University of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky. 12 May 2000.

Paper entitled “Gil Blas or Don Quixote: Waclaw Lednicki and the Quest for ‘Harmony and Perfection’.” An Interdisciplinary Conference on Emigration and Exile from Eastern and Central Europe. University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada. 25 February 2000.

Participation in Summer Research Laboratory at the Russian and East European Center. University of Illinois. Champaign, Illinois. June 1999.

Paper entitled “Polish Liberalism and the Response to War and Revolution: 1917–1923.” British Association of Slavic and East European Studies Annual Conference. Cambridge University. Cambridge, England. 28 March 1999.

Paper entitled “The Influence of Adam Mickiewicz’s Messianism on the Politics of Aleksander Lednicki.” National Identity and Mythology in the Making: Mickiewicz and Messianism. School of Slavonic and East European Studies. London, England. 11 September 1998.

Paper entitled “The Politics of Memory: The Autobiography of Waclaw Lednicki.” Twentieth Century European Narratives: Tradition & Innovation. Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI). Haifa University. Haifa, Israel. 18 August 1998.

Paper entitled “The Crisis of Russian Liberalism: The Constitutional Democrats and the Nationalities Question.” AAASS (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies) 29th National Convention in Seattle, Washington. 20 November 1997.

Paper entitled “Aleksander Lednicki and the Polish State.” History, Identities, and Borders: Toward an Interdisciplinary Perspective. 39th Missouri Conference on History. St. Louis, Missouri. 25 April 1997.

Publications (since 1997)

Aleksander Lednicki: A Pole Among Russians, A Russian Among Poles. Polish-Russian Reconciliation in the Revolution of 1905. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 2003.

“Polish Messianism and Polish-Russian Relations: The Influence of Adam Mickiewicz on Aleksander Lednicki.” The Polish Review 47 (2002), no. 3: 259-73.

“Jerzy Kurnatowski and Polish Solidarism.” The Polish Review 46 (2001), no. 3: 327-44.

“Gil Blas or Don Quixote? Waclaw Lednicki and the Search for ‘Harmony and Perfection’.” The Polish Review 46 (2001), no. 2: 209-24.

“Aleksander Lednicki,” “Vladimir Lenin,” and “Feliks Dzierzhinski.” In Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism. Ed. by Richard Frucht. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 2000.

Book review of Melissa Kirschke Stockdale’s Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, 1880–1918. Russian History 26 (1999), no. 4: 435-37.

“A Pole among Russians.” Mots Pluriels.7 (July 1998) Special Issue: “‘The Third Space’: Cross-cultural and Multi-racial Identities.” (On-line, refereed publication).

“A Note on the Name ‘Humbert’.” The Nabokovian 40 (Spring 1998): 16-17.“The Search for Slavic Unity: Aleksander Lednicki and the Russian Revolution of 1905.” The Polish Review 42 (1997), no. 1: 29-44.

Scholarly & Professional Activities

Book Review Editor. Russian History. July 1998–July 2001.
Faculty Advisor, Daemen College History & Government Club. September 1997–Present.

Coordinator for European Studies Program. February 2002-Present.

Scholarly Organizations

Phi Beta Kappa; American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New York State Association of European Historians, The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.