My recent book is the monograph Poles in Illinois, co-authored with historian Dr. John Radzilowski (Southern Illinois University Press, 2020) Winner of the 2021 Superior Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society. I have published a number of Book Chapters in anthologies on topics in Media Studies, Digital Culture, Popular Culture, Food & Culture and Polish American Studies. My work has been cited in hundreds of scholarly books, articles and dissertations world-wide.
Books
Poles in Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press Peoples of Illinois Series. Co-authored with John Radzilowski. 2020. Winner of the 2021 Superior Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society.
Book Chapters
“Polish American Polka,” forthcoming in The Routledge History of Polish Americans. Edited by James S. Pula and Joanna Wojdon and James Pula. NY: Routledge, 2026.
“An American Genre in Transition: Dead Man as Predecessor to the 21st Century Western,” in The 21st Century Western: New Riders of the Cinematic S(t)age. Edited by Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 2019. PDF
“(De)Facing Alterity in the Digital Age: The Metaphysics of the Real and Social Networking,” in The Changing Face of Alterity: Communication, Technology and Other Subjects. Rowman & Littlefield, London, August 2016. PDF
“Food and Culture,” in A Companion to Popular Culture, Ed. Gary Burns. Chichester, West Sussex, England: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. Pp. 245-64. PDF
“Going Native: The Real Problem in Theorizing the Communicative Interaction of Digital Natives,” in Digital Diversities: Social Media and Intercultural Experience. Edited by Garry Robson and Matgorzata Zachara. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014. Pp. 144 – 63. PDF
“Global Górale and Postmodern Polskos: Polish Roots Music & the Post-Communist Recovery of Folk,” in The Polish Diaspora in America and the Wider World, Eds. Adam Walaszek, Agnieszka Stasiewicz- Bienkowska, Janusz Pezda. Krakow: Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci, 2012. Pp. 17 – 31.
Foreword to Horn Man: The Polish-American Musician in Twentieth Century Detroit by Laurie A. Gomulka Palazzolo. Wayne State University Press, 2003.
“Terra Nova: The New Worlds of Cyberspace.” Chapter in Hacking Cyberspace David J. Gunkel, Ed. Westview Press, 2001. Pp. 20-47. PDF
Published Lectures
The Polka Alternative: Polish American Polka as Resistant Ethnic Practice. The Fiedorczyk Lecture in Polish American Studies. New Britain, CT: Central Connecticut State University Press, 2006.
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