Tomasz Kamusella

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(born 24 December 1967) is a Polish scholar pursuing interdisciplinary research in language politics,

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and

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Education

Kamusella was educated at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Philology in

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Campus (English language), Poland;

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(now part of the

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, South Africa; and the

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(co-accredited then by the

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, United Kingdom),

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Campus,

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. He obtained his doctor degree in

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from the Institute of Western Affairs ( Instytut Zachodni),

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, Poland and

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from the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities,

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, Poland.

Academic career

From 1994 to 1995, he taught in the Language Teachers' Training College (''Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych''),

Opole Opole (; german: Oppeln ; szl, Ôpole) ; * Silesian: ** Silesian PLS alphabet: ''Ôpole'' ** Steuer's Silesian alphabet: ''Uopole'' * Silesian German: ''Uppeln'' * Czech: ''Opolí'' * Latin: ''Oppelia'', ''Oppolia'', ''Opulia'' is a city l ...

, Poland, and between 1995 and 2007 at the University of Opole, Opole, Poland. From 2002 to 2006, he did postdoctoral research in the

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, Italy; the

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, Washington, DC, United States; the Institute for Human Sciences (''

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'', IWM),

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; and the Herder-Institut (de),

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, Germany. As visiting professor, in 2007 to 2010, he taught

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and

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and Polish History and

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Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

, Ireland, in 2010–11 at the Cracow University of Economics,

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, Poland; and in 2011 did research in the Slavic Research Center,

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, Japan. Currently, he teaches in the School of History (Centre for Transnational and Spatial History) at the

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, Fife, Scotland.

Civil servant

In 1996, he was employed as the Plenipotentiary on European Integration to the Regional Governor (Pełnomocnik Wojewody ds. Integracji Europejskiej) in the Regional Authority (Urząd Wojewódzki) of Opole. Later, from 1999 to 2002, he acted as Advisor on International Affairs to the Regional President (Doradca Marszałka ds. Współpracy z Zagranicą), Self-Governmental Regional Authority (Urząd Marszałkowski), Opole. In co-operation with the University of Opole, between 1997 and 2001, he managed the application in the

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, and financing that led to the establishment of the European Documentation Center in Opole. Thanks to his 1998 official

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Visitors Program visit to the Spanish

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, in 1999 a co-operation agreement was signed between this Spanish region and Opole Region.

Books

Authored books in English

* ''A Dictionary of English Homophones with Explanations in Polish''. 1992. Potchefstroom: Potchefstroom University and Katowice: Uniwersytet Slaski, 180pp. * ''The Dynamics of the Policies of Ethnic Cleansing in Silesia During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries''. 2000. Prague: Research Support Scheme, 710pp. * ''Silesia and Central European Nationalisms: The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia, 1848–1918''. 2007.

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, IN:

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Press, 386 pp. . * ''The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe''. 2009. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 1168 pp. .Reviews of ''The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe'': * * * * * ''Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium''. 2015. Basingstoke: Palgrave Pivot, 168 pp.; . * ''The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity''. 2017. Basingstoke: Palgrave Pivot, 162 pp.; . * ''Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War: The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria'' (Ser: Routledge Studies in Modern European History). 2018. London: Routledge, 328pp. . * ''Limits / Styknie'' (bilingual, English-Silesian edition of short stories, translated from the English by Marcin Melon). 2019. (Ser: Ślōnski druk. Modernŏ literatura pō naszymu). Kotōrz Mały: Silesia Progress. , 324pp. * (with Asnake Kefale and Christopher Van der Beken) ''Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia: From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation''. 2021. London: Routledge, 162pp. * ''Politics and the Slavic Languages''. 2021. London: Routledge, 350 pp.
''Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe''
2021. Budapest and New York: CEU Press, 310pp & 42 full color maps.

Edited volumes in English

* (edited with Wojciech Burszta and Sebastian Wojciechowski) ''Nationalisms Across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms in State-Endowed and Stateless Nations'' (Vol 1: Europe). 2005. Poznań: Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, 502pp. , * (edited with Wojciech Burszta and Sebastian Wojciechowski) ''Nationalisms Across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms in State-Endowed and Stateless Nations'' (Vol. 2: The World). 2006. Poznań: Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, 558pp. , * (edited with Krzysztof Jaskułowski) ''Nationalisms Today''. 2009. Oxford: Peter Lang. 334pp. * (edited with Motoki Nomachi) ''The Multilingual Society of Vojvodina: Intersecting Borders, Cultures and Identities''. 2014. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University. . * (edited with James Bjork, Tim Wilson and Anna Novikov) ''Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880–1950: Modernity, Violence and (Be)longing in Upper Silesia'' (Ser: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe, Vol 25). 2016. London: Routledge, 252pp. . * (edited with Motoki Nomachi and Catherine Gibson) ''The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders''. 2016. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 582pp. * (edited with Motoki Nomachi and Catherine Gibson). ''Central Europe Through the Lens of Language and Politics: On the Sample Maps from the Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe'' (Ser: Slavic Eurasia Papers, Vol 10). 2017. Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, 111pp +10 maps. * (edited with Finex Ndhlovu) ''The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages''. 2018. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 412pp.

Books in Polish

* ''W bżuhu vieloryba'' n a Whale's Belly, a collection of essays on nationalism and language politics in Asia, the Balkans and Central Europe. Introduction by Prof Wojciech J Burszta 2006. Toruń, Poland: Wydawnictwo A Marszałek, 305 pp. .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kamusella, Tomasz 1967 births Living people People from Silesia People from Kędzierzyn-Koźle Linguistic rights Linguists of Silesian 21st-century Polish historians University of Opole faculty University of Silesia in Katowice alumni Central European University alumni North-West University alumni Academics of the University of St Andrews Fellows of the Royal Historical Society SWPS University alumni