Tomasz Kamusella is a Europe

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an scholar pursuing interdisciplinary research in language politics

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, nationalism

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 and ethnicity.

Education

He was educated at the University of Silesia

University of Silesia

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, Sosnowiec

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 Campus, Poland; Potchefstroom University (now part of the North-West University

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), Potchefstroom, South Africa

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; and the Central European University

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 (co-accredited then by the Open University

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, Milton Keynes

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, United Kingdom

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), Prague

Prague

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 Campus, Czech Republic

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. He obtained his doctorate in Political Science from the Institute of Western Affairs (Instytut Zachodni), Poznań

Poznan

Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

, Poland.

Academic career

In 1994/95 he taught in the Language Teachers’ Training College (Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych), Opole

Opole

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, Poland. Since 1995 he has been employed at the University of Opole

University of Opole

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, Opole, Poland. From 2002-2006, he did his postdoctoral research in the European University Institute

European University Institute

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, Florence

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, Italy

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; the John W. Kluge Center

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, Library of Congress

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, Washington, D.C.

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, United States

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; the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM)

Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM)

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), Vienna

Vienna

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, Austria

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; and the Herder-Institut, Marburg

Marburg

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, Germany

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. As visiting professor, in 2007-10, he teaches Central and Eastern Europe

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an History

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 and Polish History and Politics

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 in Trinity College, Dublin

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, Ireland

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.

Thanks to the support of the Centre international de formation européenne

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, Nice

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, France

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 (then headed by Ferdinand Kinsky :de:Ferdinand Graf Kinsky, under whose supervision T. Kamusella had written his master’s thesis in Prague), he founded, and between 1999 and 2002, co-organized the International Summer School (Międzynarodowa Szkoła Letnia, Opole, Poland)

International Summer School (Międzynarodowa Szkoła Letnia, Opole, Poland)

The International Summer school was conceived by Tomasz Kamusella, who from 1996-1999 had canvassed for its establishment with the Centre international de formation européenne , Nice, the Regional Authority of the Opole Voivodeship , Opole, and beginning in late 1998, with the Self-Governmental...

 on European integration

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 and minorities in the Opole Voivodeship

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. Uniquely, then this school was co-financed by NATO, and today it continues to be organized on the annual basis by the Dom Europejski (European House), Opole, Poland. He applied with the European Commission

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’s Jean Monnet Programme

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 for a European Module in History and Politics of the European Union, and from 1997-2002, he led this module at the University of Opole. He also conceived the project Specific Nationalisms for the Polish Academy of Sciences

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’ half-annual Sprawy Narodowościowe (Nationalities Affairs), in the framework of which, since 2001 he has attracted high quality English-language articles for this journal. In 2008, he founded and co-edits the book series, Nationalisms Across the Globe, published by Peter Lang Ireland.

In 2005-07, he provided academic expertise for Andrzej Roczniok and Grzegorz Kozubek’s application for an ISO 639-3

ISO 639-3

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 code for the Silesian language, which was granted in 1997: szl. Likewise, in 2008 he wrote an opinion on the incubator Silesian Wikipedia

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, which led to its launching, as Ślůnsko Wikipedyjo, in the same year. On June 30, 2008, on the first-ever codification (linguistics)

Codification (linguistics)

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 conference on Silesian (Ślōnsko godka – mundart jeszcze eli już jednak szpracha? [The Silesian Language: A Mundart* or Already a Language?]), as the sole one of the four main panelists unambiguously supported its recognition as a language in Poland. He argues that the will of 60,000 persons, who indicated Silesian as their language of everyday communication in the Polish census of 2002

Polish census of 2002

- Significant ethnic minorities :In addition to Poles, ethnic groups of more than 25,000 people compose the following:-References:...

, could not be disregarded in any democratic state.

• Note: The German word Mundart (Mund = mouth, Art = way, manner) means "Dialect" or "local resp. regional Idiom")

Career in Civil Service

In 1996 he was employed as the, first-ever in Poland, regional Plenipotentiary on European Integration to the Regional Governor (Pełnomocnik Wojewody ds. Integracji Europejskiej) in the Regional Authority (Urząd Wojewódzki), Opole. Later, from 1999-2002, 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 cooperation with the University of Opole, between 1997 and 2001, he managed the application in the Council of Europe, and financing that led to the establishment of the European Documentation Center in Opole http://www.edc.uni.opole.pl. This center makes acquis communautaire available to the inhabitants of the Voivodeship of Opole and constituted a basis for founding a Department of Law at the University of Opole. In 1998, in the framework of the European Visitors Program of the European Union, he also visited the Spanish Autonomous Community of Galicia, which, in the following year, led to the signing of the cooperation agreement between this Spanish region and the Opole Voivodeship.<>

Books in English

• The Szlonzoks and Their Language: Between Germany, Poland and Szlonzokian Nationalism / Szlonzocy (Ślązacy) i ich język pomiędzy Niemcami, Polską a szlonzskim (śląskim) nacjonalizmem. 2009. Zabrze, Poland: NOS, 122 pp. ISBN 978 83 60540 93 0.
• The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe (Foreword by Professor Peter Burke
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  , UK: Palgrave
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  , 1168 pp. ISBN 978 0 230 55070 4 & ISBN 0 230 55070 3.
• Silesia and Central European Nationalisms: The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia, 1848-1918 (Ser: Central European Studies; Foreword by Professor Charles W. Ingrao). 2007. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University
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   Press, 386 pp. ISBN 978 1 55753 371 5 & ISBN 1 5753 371 7.
• Polsko-angielsko-niemiecki glosariusz regionalny / The Polish-English-German Regional Glossary. 2006. Zabrze, Poland: NOS, 160 pp. ISBN 978 83 60540 53 4.
• Polsko-angielsko-niemiecki glosariusz regionalny Województwa Opolskiego / The Polish-English-German Glossary of the Regional Terminology of the Opole Voivodeship. 2004. Opole, Poland: Oficyna Piastowska, 130pp. ISBN 83 89357 18 6.
• The Szlonzoks and Their Language: Between Germany, Poland and Szlonzokian Nationalism. 2003. Florence, European University Institute: Working Papers Series of the Department of History and Civilization (HEC 2003/1), 50 pp. http://cadmus.iue.it/dspace/bitstream/1814/1351/1/HEC03-01.pdf.
• The Dynamics of the Policies of Ethnic Cleansing in Silesia During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (research work). 2000. Prague: Research Support Scheme, 710 pp. http://e-lib.rss.cz ; http://e-lib.rss.cz/diglib/pdf/17.pdf, http://rss.archives.ceu.hu/archive/00001016/01/17.pdf

Edited Volumes in English

• Together with K. Jaskułowski, eds. 2009 [Forthcoming]. Nationalisms Today. Oxford & Bern: Peter Lang.
• Together with Wojciech Burszta & S Wojciechowski, eds. 2006. Nationalisms Across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms in State-Endowed and Stateless Nations (Vol. 2: The World). Poznań, Poland: Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, 558 pp. ISBN 83 87653 51 9 & ISBN 83 87653 41 2.
• Together with W Burszta & S Wojciechowski, eds. 2005. Nationalisms Across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms in State-Endowed and Stateless Nations (Vol 1: Europe). Poznań, Poland: Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, 502 pp. ISBN 83 87653 51 9 & ISBN 83 87653 41 1.
• Cooperation in the writing and editing: Karl Cordell, ed. 2000. The Politics of Ethnicity in Central Europe. London: Macmillan and New York: St Martin’s Press. ISBN 0 333 73171 9.

Books in Polish

• Maski i twarze nacjonalizmu [Masks and Facets of Nationalism]. 2010 [Forthcoming]. Zabrze, Poland: NOS, 284 pp. ISBN 978 83 60540 84 8.
• O Schlonzsku i nacjonalizmie [On Upper Silesia and Nationalism]. 2009. Zabrze, Poland: NOS, 148 pp. ISBN 978 83 60540 60 2.
• Uwag kilka o dyskryminacji Ślązaków i Niemców górnośląskich w postkomunistycznej Polsce [A Few Remarks on the Discrimination of the Silesians and Upper Silesia’s Germans in Postcommunist Poland]. 2007. Zabrze, Poland: NOS, 28 pp. ISBN 978 83 60540 68 8.
• Schlonzsko: Horní Slezsko, Oberschlesien, Górny Śląsk. Esej o regionie i jego mieszkańcach [Schlonzsko: Upper Silesia. An Essay on the Region and Its Inhabitants] (2nd, corrected and enlarged edition). 2006. Zabrze, Poland: NOS, 148 pp. ISBN 978 83 60540 51 0.
• W bżuhu vieloryba [In 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. ISBN 978 83 7441 383 1.
• Schlonzska mowa. Język, Górny Śląsk i nacjonalizm (Vol II) [Silesia and Language: Language, Upper Silesia and Nationalism, a collection of articles on various social, political and historical aspects of language use in Upper Silesia]. 2006. Zabrze, Poland: NOS, 151 pp. ISBN 83 919589 2 2.
• Schlonzska mowa. Język, Górny Śląsk i nacjonalizm (Vol I) [Silesia and Language: Language, Upper Silesia and Nationalism, a collection of articles on various social, political and historical aspects of language use in Upper Silesia]. 2005. Zabrze, Poland: NOS, 187 pp. ISBN 83 919589 2 2.
• Schlonzsko: Horní Slezsko, Oberschlesien, Górny Śląsk. Esej o regionie i jego mieszkańcach [Schlonzsko: Upper Silesia. An Essay on the Region and Its Inhabitants]. 2001. Elbląg, Poland: Elbląska Oficyna Wydawnicza, 108 pp. ISBN 83 913452 2 X.
• Wydawnictwa na temat Unii Europejskiej i integracji europejskiej (informator bibliograficzny) [Publications on the European Union and European Integration (Bibliographical Guide)]. 1997. Opole, Poland: Pełnomocnik Wojewody Opolskiego do Spraw Integracji Europejskiej, 82 pp.

Significant Articles

• Language in Central Europe’s History and Politics (7-25 pp.). 2009. Sprawy Narodowościowe. No. 34. Poznań & Warsaw, Poland: Zakład Badań Narodowościowych PAN. Available from: http://www.ceeol.com.
• Orwell w Opolu [Orwell in Opole: A Reflection on the Ideological Uses of Nationalism] (15 pp.). 2009. Silesia, Schlesien, Śląsk. Mülheim an der Ruhr. No. 32. http://www.silesia-schlesien.com/artikel/artikel/article/1///dr-tomasz-kamusella-orwell-w-opolu.html.
• Czy śląszczyzna jest językiem? Spojrzenie socjolingwistyczne [Is Silesian a Language? A Sociolinguistic View] (pp. 27-35). In : Andrzej Roczniok, ed. 2009. Śląsko godka - jeszcze gwara czy jednak już język? / Ślōnsko godko – mundart jeszcze eli już jednak szpracha. Zabrze: NOŚ.
• Fiololodzy – naukowcy czy może już politycy? [Philologists: Scholars or, Perhaps, Politicians?]. Review: D L Hoyt and K Oslund, eds. The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context (pp. 203-212). 2008. Sprawy Narodowościowe. No. 32. Poznań and Warsaw: Zakład Badań Narodowościowych PAN. Available from: http://www.ceeol.com.
• Poland: The Reluctant Shift from a Closed Ethno-linguistically Homogenous National Community to a Multicultural Open Society (pp. 1-25). 2008. In: Marushiakova, Elena, ed. Dynamics of National Identity and Transnational Identities in the Process of European Integration. Newcastle UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• The Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State: The Case of Central Europe (pp. 57-92). In: W Burszta, T Kamusella, & S Wojciechowski, eds. 2006. Nationalisms Across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms of State-Endowed and Stateless Nations (Vol. 2: The World). Poznań, Poland: Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa.
• Place-Names and Objectivity in Historiography: The Case of Silesia in the 19th and 20th Centuries (pp. 173-190). 2006. Godišnjak za sociologiju [Annual Review of Sociology].http://www.filfak.ni.ac.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=244&Itemid=126 No. 2. Niš, Serbia: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš
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• Narodowość – de gustibus non est disputandum [Nationality: De Gustibus non est Disputandum] (pp. 43-78). In: Wojciech J Burszta, Krzysztof Jaskułowski and Joanna Nowak, eds. 2005. Narodowy wymiar kultury [The National Aspect of Culture]. (Ser: Kultura Na Pograniczach, Vol. I). Warsaw, Poland: Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy.
• Silesia: Doing it Our Way (8 pp.). 2005. Transitions on Line (TOL) . 10 Nov. www.tol.cz, http://lgi.osi.hu/documents.php?id=877. Available from: http://www.ceeol.com
• On the Similarity Between the Concepts of Nation and Language (pp. 107-112). 2004. Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism. Vol. 31. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada: University of Prince Edward Island. www.upei.ca/crsn/Article_Kamusella.pdf.
• The Szlonzokian Ethnolect in the Context of German and Polish Nationalisms (pp. 19-39). 2004. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. No. 1. London: Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism.
• On the Similarity Between the Concepts of Nation and Language (pp. 107-112). 2004. Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism. Vol. 31. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada: University of Prince Edward Island. www.upei.ca/crsn/Article_Kamusella.pdf.
• Upper Silesia 1870-1920: Between Region, Religion, Nation and Ethnicity (pp. 443-462). 2004. East European Quarterly. No. 4, January. Boulder CO, US: University of Colorado
• The Expulsion of the Population Categorized as ‘Germans’ from the post-1945 Poland (pp. 21-32, 93-94). In: Steffen Prauser and Arfon Rees, eds. 2004. The Expulsion of the ‘German’ Communities from Eastern Europe at the End of the Second World War. Florence, European University Institute: Working Papers Series of the Department of History and Civilization (HEC No 2004/01). http://cadmus.iue.it/dspace/handle/1814/2599.
• The Holy Roman Empire as a Model for Describing and Analyzing the Structure of the European Union? (pp. 13-23). In: Wojciech Łukowski, ed. 2004. Tożsamość regionów w Polsce w przestrzeni europejskiej. Katowice, Poland: Ruch Autonomii Slaska and The Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.
• Standaryzacja języka górnośląskiego i możliwe konsekwencje społeczne i polityczne (ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem Śląska Opolskiego) [Standardization of the Upper Silesian Language and the Possible Social and Political Consequences (Especially in Opole Silesia)] (pp. 113-132). Sprawy Narodowościowe. 2004. Nos. 23-24. Poznań, Poland: Zakład Badań Narodowościowych PAN. Available from: http://www.ceeol.com.
• Dual Citizenship in Opole Silesia in the Context of European Integration (pp. 699-716). 2003. Facta Universitatis (Ser: Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology). No. 10. Niš, Serbia and Montenegro: University of Niš. http://facta.junis.ni.ac.rs/pas/pas2003/pas2003-01.html
• Poland in 1945-1999: The Transition from the Soviet-Dominated Ethnic Nation-State to Democratic Civic Nation-State (35 pp.). 2003. Spaces of Identity. No. 4. www.univie.ac.at/spacesofidentity.
• Kiedy Iran zostanie członkiem Unii Europejskiej? [When Will Iran Become a Member of the European Union?] (pp. 175-184). Sprawy Narodowościowe. 2003. No. 22. Poznań, Poland: Zakład Badań Narodowościowych PAN.
• Polska państwem imigracyjnym? [Is Poland Already an Immigration State?] (pp. 31-54). In: Wojciech J. Burszta and Jacek Serwański, eds. 2003. Migracja – Europa – Polska. Poznań, Poland: Zakład badań Narodowościowych Polskiej Akademii Nauk and Instytut Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa, Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza.
• Language and the Construction of Identity in Upper Silesia During the Long Nineteenth Century (pp. 45-70). In: Kai Struve and Philipp Ther, eds. 2002. Die Grenzen der Nationen. Indentitätenwandel in Oberschlesien in der Neuzeit. Marburg, Germany: Herder-Institut.
• Nation-Building and the Linguistic Situation in Upper Silesia (pp. 37-63). 2002. European Review of History –Revue européenne d’histoire. No. 1. London: Routledge
• Language as an Instrument of Nationalism in Central Europe (pp. 235-252). 2001. Nations and Nationalism. No. 2, Apr. London: Blackwell and Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism.
• Nacjonalizm i jego badacze (z perspektywy anglosaskiej). Przegląd literatury [Nationalism and Its Students: A Bibliographical Essay (from the Anglo-Saxon Perspective)] (s. 121-146). 2001. Sprawy Narodowościowe. No. 19. Poznań, Poland: Zakład Badań Narodowościowych PAN.
• Podstawowe parametry do konstrukcji historii regionu Śląsk Opolski [The Basic Parameters for the Construction of History of the Region of Opole Silesia] (pp. 10-24). 2001. Śląsk Opolski. No 3. Opole, Poland: Instytut Śląski.
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