John Bukowczyk, professor of history at Wayne State University, is the editor of the new Polish and Polish-American Studies Series published by the Ohio University Press.

The series revisits the historical and contemporary experience of one of America's largest ethnic groups and the history of a European homeland, which has played a disproportionately important role in 20th-century world affairs.

The series will publish innovative, high-quality monographs and more general works which offer new, critical, revisionist, or comparative perspectives in the area of Polish and Polish-American studies or which examine under-or unexplored topics or themes in the area.

Interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary in profile, the series will recruit manuscripts on Polish immigration and ethnic communities, the country of origin, and various peoples in history, anthropology, cultural studies, political economy, current politics, and related fields.

The series is organized under the general editorship of Bukowczyk and an advisory board. Buckowczyk has received many awards for his work. His most recent include a 1997-99 Charles Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship Award and 1998 College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award from Wayne State. He received the Miecislaus Haiman Award from the Polish American Historical Association in 1994.

Members of the board are Stanislaus A. Blejwas, holder of the Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies at Central Connecticut State U.; Robert Blobaum, West Virginia U.; Anthony Bukoski, University of Wisconsin-Superior; and Bogdana Carpenter, U. of Michigan.

Other members include Mary Patrice Erdmans, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro; Thomas S. Gladsky, St. Mary's College at Orchard Lake, Mich.; Padraic Kenney, U. of Colorado at Boulder; and John J. Kulczycki, U. of Illinois at Chicago.

Other members are Ewa Morawska, U. of Pennsylvania; Antony Polonsky, Brandeis U., general editor of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry; Brian Porter, U. of Michigan; James S. Pula, Utica College of Syracuse U., editor of Polish American Studies; Thaddeus C. Radzilowski, president of St. Mary's College, Orchard Lake, Mich.; Daniel Stone, U. of Winnipeg; Hab. Adam Walaszek, Polonia Research Institute, Jagiellonian University; and Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois U.

The series is funded by the Polish American Historical Association, the chair of Polish and Polish American Studies at Central Connecticut State University, St. Mary's College, and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.

For further information, contact Bukowczyk, series editor, at (313) 577-2799, or aa2092@wayne.edu or Gillian Berchowitz, senior editor, Ohio University Press, at (740) 593-1159 or berchowi@oak.cats.ohiou.edu.