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Annual Awards Ceremony


The annual awards presentations, inaugurated in 1995 held in Williams Club and most recently on November 19, 2005 at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City, honor distinguished scholars and scientists for their scholarly achievements with a $1000 award. The awards are given in the fields of history (The Oskar Halecki Polish and East Central European History Award), sociology (The Bronislaw Malinowski Social Science Award), natural science (The Casimir Funk Natural Science Award), applied sciences (The Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award), humanities (The Waclaw Lednicki Award). There is also The Ludwik Krzyzanowski Polish Review Award.


Dr. Gershon David Hundert, Professor of Jewish Studies and History, McGill University, recipient of the Oscar Halecki Polish and East Central European History Award for his book Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century; A Genealogy of Modernity (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004).


Dr. Karen Majewski, Executive Director of the Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) and Curator for Orchard Lake Schools, Orchard Lake, Michigan, recipient of the Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award for her book Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880-1939 Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2003.


Dr. Benoit Mandelbrot , Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University, recipient of the Casimir Funk Natural Science Award in recognition of his introduction of the concept of fractals into fields of physics that defied description by conventional concepts and for his impact on these fields. There is no man who so shaped the mathematical imagination of our times as Benoit Mandelbrot.


The distinguished awardees include:

The Oskar Halecki Polish History Award

1995 - Dr. Andrzej S. Kaminski, Georgetown University

1996 - Dr. Robert Blobaum, University of West Virginia

1997 - Dr. Piotr S. Wandycz, Yale University

1998 - Timothy Snyder, Harvard University

2001 - Dr. Brian Allen Porter, University of Michigan

2003 - Dr. Daniel Stone, University of Winnipeg


The Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award

1995 - Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University

1996 - Dr. Alexander Wolszczan, Pennsylvania State University

1997 - Dr. Hilary Koprowski, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia

1998 - Peter T. Wolczanski, Cornell University,

2001 - Dr. Andrew Wojcicki, State University

2003 - Dr. Waclaw Szybalski, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison .


The Bronislaw Malinowski Social Sciences Award

1995 - Dr. Helena Znaniecka Lopata, Loyola University, Chicago

1995 - Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic & International Studies

1996 - None awarded

1997 - Dr. Adam Podgorecki, Carleton University & University of Warsaw

1998 - Eva Hoffman, author

2001- Dr. Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University


The Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award

1995 - None awarded

1996 - Dr. Tomas A. Venclova, Yale University

1997 - None awarded

1998 - Beth C. Holmgren, University of North Carolina,

2001- Dr. Jan C. Cavanaugh, Seattle, Washington

2003 - Dr. Roman Koropeckyj, UCLA


The Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award

1995 - None awarded

1996 - Dr. Stanislaw Mrozowski, Professor Emeritus, SUNY at Buffalo

1997 - Dr. Stanislaw Gorczyca, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow

1998 - Thaddeus B. Massalski, Carnegie Mellon University

2001- Dr. Wladyslaw Koleczko, President of the Polish Association of Inventors and Industrial Innovators in Warsaw


The Ludwik Krzyzanowski Polish Review Award

1995 - Andrzej Chmielarz, Institute of Military History, Warsaw

1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003 - None awarded

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