Director, Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia; Director, Center for European Studies; Director, Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; Professor, Sociology
genez@umich.eduCenter for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies; International Institute; WCED Faculty Affiliates; Center for European Studies; CES Faculty; CREES Faculty Associates; CCPS Faculty; Copernicus Center for Polish Studies; WCED Faculty Associates; CCPS Steering Committee; CCPS Director; II Center & Program Directors; CCPS Staff; WCEE Staff; WCEE Directors; CES Advisory Committee; CES Staff; CES Director; Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; WCED Steering Committee
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2002Highlighted Work and Publications
National Matters: Materiality, Culture, and Nationalism
Geneviève Zubrzycki: Editor
Description from Publisher:
National Matters investigates the role of material culture and materiality in defining and solidifying national identity in everyday practice. Examining a range of "things"—from art objects, clay fragments, and broken stones to clothing, food, and urban green space—the contributors to this volume explore the importance of matter in making the nation appear real, close, and important to its citizens. Symbols and material objects do not just reflect the national visions deployed by elites and consumed by the masses...
See MoreBeheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec
Genevieve Zubrzycki
Description from Publisher:
Through much of its existence, Québec’s neighbors called it the “priest-ridden province.” Today, however, Québec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services—a transformation rooted in the “Quiet Revolution” of the 1960s.
In Beheading the Saint, Geneviève Zubrzycki studies that transformation through a close investigation of the annual Feast of St. John the Baptist of June 24. The celebrations of that national holiday, she shows, provided...
See MoreThe Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland
Genevieve Zubrzycki
Description from Publisher:
In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended well beyond Poland’s borders, Geneviève Zubrzycki sees it as a particularly crucial moment in the development of post-Communist Poland’s statehood and its changing relationship to Catholicism.
In The Crosses of Auschwitz, Zubrzycki skillfully...
See MoreKrzyży w Auschwitz (Crosses of Auschwitz, Polish translation): Tożsamość narodowa, nacjonalizm i religia w postkomunistycznej Polsce
Geneviève Zubrzycki
The award-winning book, The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland, has now been translated into Polish. Description of the original English-language version from that book's publisher, University of Chicago Press:
In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended well beyond Poland’s borders...
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