Master of Music, Youngstown State University, 2018, Dana School of Music

This thesis addresses the societal impact of Communism, both during and after Stalinism, via the cultural manipulation of popular music in Polish film. I focus on the creation of the "mass song" a propagandist musical genre generated in Poland in the early 1950s. These "mass songs" projected an optimist message primarily focused on growth and progress after the devastation in which Poland was left after World War II. However, these mass songs emphasize the divide between their message of hope and optimism, versus the context of postwar struggle for many Poles. In turn, a layered sense of awareness of their culture existed for decades to follow. Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda fought governmental restrictions on artistic expression in his trilogy: Man of Marble (1976) Man of Iron (1981), Wałesa—Man of Hope (2013). Man of Marble was one of the first films to address Poland's Stalinist past. Music is used in the films to deconstruct the projected truths often presented to the Polish public to influence their opinion of Communism and the state of their country. These efforts at perceptual manipulation were stifled, thanks in part to films such as Wajda's, which contributed to the Communist regime's demise in 1989.

Committee: Ewelina Boczkowska PhD (Advisor); Paul Louth PhD (Committee Member); Steven Reale PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Film Studies; History; Music

Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, 2019, History

This thesis examines the critical role that the Polish immigrant community has played in recent British history. A large influx of Polish migrants settled in the UK in the years immediately following World War II. The British government pressured the Poles to repatriate or settle elsewhere, due in part to the post-war scarcity environment. By the early 1960s, against the backdrop of Commonwealth immigration—many of whom were non-white—the Polish immigrant community was extolled for their ability to adapt and assimilate with comparative ease. When a second wave of Polish immigration began in 2004, it was as a result of Poland's accession to the EU. The UK did not limit Polish immigration between 2004 and 2011; it was one of three member states that did not. By the end of 2011—when the other member states lifted their restrictions—Polish was the second most commonly spoken language in Britain, behind English and ahead of Welsh. As a result, the Polish community became a focal point for Eurosceptics, who argued that the UK's inability to limit the number of Poles seeking employment in the island nation threatened not only low-paid, unskilled British labor but also the integrity of British society. This was not a new concern; throughout its history with the EU and the European Communities, the UK objected strongly to the possibility of relinquishing sovereignty over key policy issues, and, especially after 2004, control over immigration proved to be a particularly delicate issue. The only way the UK would be able to limit immigration by EU citizens would be to seek an exemption to the free movement of workers or by leaving the EU, which led to the Referendum on membership put forth by Prime Minister David Cameron. When British citizens went to the polls in 2016 to decide whether or not to remain a member state, the Polish immigrant community was a conspicuous reminder of how Britain's destiny was no longer decided in London.

Committee: Douglas Forsyth Ph.D (Advisor); Neal Jesse Ph.D (Committee Member) Subjects: History

Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 1967, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects:

MFA, Kent State University, 0, College of the Arts / School of Art

Loss is a major component of my lived experience and informs much of the work in my thesis exhibition, Oh, Horse Hockey! Herein, I explore my personal and familial relationship to grief. I utilize a working narrative of symbolic, metaphoric, and literal interpretations of grief. Through the use of recurring visual symbols of addiction, childhood, and celebration, I call attention to avoidance. Most glaring, however, is the inclusion of party ephemera. Its significance enlivens a contrapuntal read of this body of work, wherein the seemingly oppositional concepts of loss and celebration are made interdependent.

Committee: J. Leigh Garcia (Advisor) Subjects: Aesthetics; Behavioral Psychology; Cultural Anthropology; Developmental Psychology; Families and Family Life; Folklore; Foreign Language; Human Remains; Individual and Family Studies; Judaic Studies; Mental Health; Religious History; Slavic Studies; Womens Studies

Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.), University of Dayton, 2019, International Marian Research Institute

Jerzy Nowosielski nace en Cracovia (Polonia) el 7 de enero de 1923. Su vida transcurre en paralelo a la historia de su pais, que apenas 5 anos antes, en 1918, habia recuperado su Independencia. Por su edad pertenece a la generacion de aquellos que, tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, hubieron de levantar de nuevo su pais. Algunos, como por ejemplo Karol Wojtyła (futuro Papa y Santo de la Iglesia catolica, San Juan Pablo II), son internacionalmente conocidos. Otros, como nuestro protagonista, lo son de sus propias fronteras adentro. Jerzy Nowosielski va a participar en esta reconstruccion tras la guerra y en los anos posteriores de la historia de Polonia con “las armas” de sus pinceles y la palabra. En este estudio lo presentamos como persona, como pintor y pensador, y como creyente. Estas son las tres dimensiones que forman parte de su vida. Estas dimensiones, pintor y pensador, se muestran y analizan en este estudio. Tras una presentacion general de la vida de nuestro pintor, este trabajo se centra en un estudio historico-artistico-teologico-mariologico del programa iconografico de la iglesia parroquial de la Providencia divina de Varsovia-Wesoła por el realizado. A la historia y el programa iconografico pre-existentes, le siguen sucesivamente un primer proyecto y un proyecto definitivo de Jerzy Nowosielski. El analisis y la descripcion de estos proyectos son muy importantes y ocupan un lugar importante en este trabajo. Gracias a ellos vemos como de un primer proyecto en el que el elemento mariano tenia una discreta y pequena presencia en el abside-presbiterio, nos encontramos ante un resultado final en el cual la iconografia mariana va a tener un papel muy destacado. En esta iglesia vemos como el pensamiento y la creacion artistica de su autor, referidos a la Madre de Dios caminan juntos. En la misma encontramos representaciones de Maria es representada como Orante, de la relacion entre Maria y el Espiritu Santo, y finalmente de Maria y la Sabiduria divina. Y es s (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Antonio Larocca (Committee Member); Johann Roten (Advisor) Subjects: Art History; Theology

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2019, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

Nominal case morphology is often considered one of the most reanalyzed elements of heritage grammar (Benmamoun et al., 2013; Montrul, 2016). Several case typologies have been put forward to investigate which cases are more vulnerable in heritage languages. The two considered in this dissertation are based solely on the internal qualities of cases. Benmamoun et al. (2013) have suggested that structural case is better preserved than inherent case, whereas Laskowski (2014) has proposed that strong cases replace weak ones in the language of Polish heritage speakers. Neither of these approaches, however, has compared divergences between the speech of heritage speakers and the language of their parents. By analyzing patterns of case use in the language of two generations of Polish immigrants, this dissertation offers new insights into nominal morphology in the Polish heritage language. It also analyzes whether any of the proposed case typologies are applicable to heritage Polish. Conducted mainly in Chicago, the study investigates the case use and knowledge of twenty-five Polish heritage speakers, twelve first-generation immigrants, and a control group of twelve monolinguals from Poland. The results show that all oblique cases are preserved in the speech of the advanced heritage speakers, albeit occurring less frequently therein than in the language of the other two groups. The lower-proficiency speakers' decreased accuracy, meanwhile, may signify that the grammatical systems of these speakers operate on the syntactic rules of the dominant language (i.e., English). Additionally, the results of the first-generation immigrants indicate that the frequency of oblique case use in their language is much lower than in the language of the control group. To measure the use and knowledge of cases, the study employed three tasks: story elicitation, elicited sentence completion, and grammaticality judgment. The results of the tasks indicate that heritage speakers' divergent use of (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Ludmila Isurin (Advisor) Subjects: Linguistics; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Slavic Studies

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1981, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Literature

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1981, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Language

Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Bowling Green State University, 2016, Creative Writing/Poetry

This thesis explores Polish emigration through poetry from the present of the third generation in terms of loss of familial patriarchs, loss of the Polish language as an American monolingual English speaker, and loss of ethnic group identity. That is, this thesis explores what it means for a Polish American to be foreign to oneself. The speaker of these poems, in order to connect with an identity larger than herself, tries to regain a sense of Polish national identity by speaking to the dead patriarchs of her family and meditating on their deaths. By doing so, she attempts to make some kind of sense of her grief and of her life. This thesis utilizes formal restlessness and the themes of language, prayer, memory, dream, nature, drink, and work to connect the speaker with the unseen world that is now absent to her in the physical, visible world in which she dwells.

Committee: Sharona Muir (Advisor); Larissa Szporluk Celli (Committee Member) Subjects: Aesthetics; Bible; Bilingual Education; Dance; Earth; East European Studies; Ecology; Energy; English As A Second Language; Environmental Philosophy; Ethics; Ethnic Studies; European History; Families and Family Life; Fine Arts; Folklore; Foreign Language; Forestry; Gender; History; Holocaust Studies; Human Remains; Language; Language Arts; Literacy; Literature; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Modern History; Modern Language; Modern Literature; Multicultural Education; Multilingual Education; Peace Studies; Performing Arts; Personal Relationships; Personality; Regional Studies; Religion; Religious History; Slavic Literature; Slavic Studies; Spirituality; Theology; Therapy; Womens Studies; World History

Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 2014, Slavic and East European Studies

Originating in response to Polish partitions of the 18th century, the concept of Polish exceptionalism asserts the cultural uniqueness and superiority of the Polish nation. As the 19th century progressed, this belief in a cultural exceptionalism quickly became gendered with figure of the Matka Polka (Polish Mother). As men went off to battle for national freedom, the Matka Polka became the symbolic protector of the hearth and the reproducer of national culture. Deeply associated with the domestic sphere and essentialized understandings of gender, the Matka Polka proved to be a strong cultural emblem of patriotic motherhood and duty. The deeply entrenched belief in Polish exceptionalism did not end with the partition era, but persevered, from state socialism to membership in the EU. Closely tied to reproduction, the Catholic Church, and cultural conceptions of femininity, exceptionalist appeals to the Matka Polka remain a central component of Polish identity formation. The cultural currency of Polish exceptionalism carried into the abortion debate of the early postsocialist era. Resulting in the revocation of women's reproductive rights just as the nation gained its independence. The push for restrictive abortion legislation continued in the accession toward EU membership, pulling from nostalgic depictions of the national past in the formulation of a uniquely Polish identity within the shifting political environment. In this thesis, I will argue that appeals to exceptionalism and the political mobilization of the Matka Polka in the postsocialist abortion debate drew on invented traditions of the past and ultimately resulted in a limited, restrictive definition of what it means to be a woman citizen in Poland.

Committee: Jennifer Suchland (Advisor); Jessie Labov (Committee Member); Jill Bystydzienski (Committee Member) Subjects: East European Studies; Gender; History; Slavic Studies

DMA, University of Cincinnati, 2001, College-Conservatory of Music : Conducting, Orchestral Emphasis

Symphony No. 4 of Witold Lutoslawski is one of the symphonic masterworks of the twentieth century. This composition, completed in 1992, was Lutoslawski's last symphonic work, and represented the final stage in the continual transformation and refinement of his musical language. Despite the fact that this composition has been performed to critical acclaim, there has not been a work dedicated to its analysis or an examination of the performance issues that it presents. This thesis addresses the compositional elements of Symphony No. 4 in relationship to the invaluable information presented in published conversations with Lutoslawski about his earlier works, and presents the first published analysis of the piece. An examination of the performance issues presented in the composition includes the first publication of an extensive list of corrections for both editions of the score and the orchestral parts.

Committee: Frank Samarotto (Advisor) Subjects: Music

MA, University of Cincinnati, 2008, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Art History

Cora Elma Pratt (1888-1977) educator, collector, artist, and philanthropist spent much of her life building her innovative International School of Art (ISA) in Europe, Mexico, South America, and the United States. Pratt first established her ISA in 1928 in Zakopane, Poland and later organized locations throughout Europe and Mexico. From her travels with the ISA, she acquired a notable 2,500-piece collection of international folk art, which she gave to the Miami University Art Museum in Oxford, Ohio in 1970. This study includes a mini-biography, recounting incidents and experiences that molded Pratt into a devoted art educator and promoter of international folk art in the United States and abroad. As a promoter of folk art, she aligned herself with the Brooklyn Museum, a premier institution that was setting the pace for folk art and children's art exhibitions, acquiring artwork to sell in their gift shop and organizing folk art exhibitions from the 1930s through the 1960s. During Pratt's years of involvement with the Brooklyn Museums, she and the ISA organized the first exhibition of Polish folk art in the United States, Polish Exhibition, 1933-34. This study analyzes Pratt's ISA and looks at a couple of the most prominent artists who taught with her and the workshops they conducted. This thesis also examines some of the popular pedagogical theories promoted by Franz Cizek (1865-1947) and John Dewey (1859-1952) that heavily influenced Pratt's ISA, her educational mission, and eventually, how she believed the collection needed to be interpreted in a traditional art museum environment. While today Pratt's collection remains in storage at the Miami University Art Museum, the implication of this study could allow for Pratt's collection to be interpreted as material culture instead of folk art.

Committee: Theresa Leininger-Miller PhD (Committee Chair); Mikiko Hirayama PhD (Committee Member); Anne Timpano MA (Committee Member) Subjects: Adult Education; Art Education; Art History; Fine Arts; Womens Studies

PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2001, Arts and Sciences : Sociology

Health is widely recognized to be important to both nations and individuals. It encompasses physical, mental, and social well-being, while reflecting and determining the quality of life. To explain health and health differentials, a social model has been sought to complement the biomedical model. While comparative research is critical in this pursuit, cross-national studies on individual- and contextual-level determinants of health are almost nonexistent. In this study, I examine differences between the United States and Poland in a multilevel model of self-reported health. I predict that health is lower in Poland than in the United States because of a gap in socioeconomic development. In testing a series of hypotheses on the health effects of individual statuses, psychosocial factors, and area-level conditions, I use individual-level data from the 1992-1998 American and Polish General Social Surveys and contextual data based on area-level official statistics. A two-level model is estimated using hierarchical linear modeling. The results largely support the research hypotheses, but larger than expected between-country differences are found. Self-reported health is significantly lower in Poland than in the United States, with education, income, labor force status, and marital happiness accounting for most of this difference. As predicted, education returns to health are larger in the United States than in Poland. Unexpectedly, income improves health to a greater extent in Poland, though age has a stronger negative effect on health in Poland than in the United States. Women report lower health than men in Poland but the opposite is observed for the United States. Of the contextual effects, area-level income and pollution are associated with self-reported health but not unemployment or availability of health care. This study supports the conclusions that 1) both individual and contextual factors contribute to self-perceptions of health and 2) self-perceived health stat (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Dr. David J. Maume (Advisor) Subjects:

Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, 2008, Art History

Little magazines, literary and/or artistic periodicals that were self-consciously branded as avant-garde, proliferated in late-nineteenth-century Europe and were crucial in circulating concepts of modernism. This dissertation focuses on two little magazines, Krakow's Life (1897-1900) and Warsaw's Chimera (1901-1907), and their editors' promotion of Polish artists as integral participants of an international artworld.Both periodicals were published during a period in which Poland, having been partitioned among Russia, Prussia, and Austria in the late eighteenth century, did not exist. These partitions fueled a nationalist discourse in which art functioned as a tool for patriotic expression. However, the members of the artistic and literary movement of Young Poland challenged the notion of an instructive art. They strove instead to redefine national art by arguing that patriotism should be internalized rather than didactically conveyed and, furthermore, insisted that Polish art had to become modern to thrive internationally. Life and Chimera reinforced these goals through a deliberate visual and rhetorical program that underscored the supremacy of modernism. This dissertation examines the chief polemical essays and visual programs of both journals to demonstrate their editors' efforts to frame modernism in Poland and legitimize Polish art within the international artworld. Ludwik Szczepanski and Artur Gorski, Life's first two editors, maintained that art could be both modern and national and configured the journal's visual program around various national, and simultaneously universalist, tropes. Life's last editor, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, however, argued that national identity did not belong in conversations about art since only pure, subjective expression should occupy artists. He structured Life around various artistic and literary "personalities," whose inclusion in the journal reflected his elevation of artistic identity. Like Przybyszewski, Chimera's Zenon Prze (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Anne Helmreich (Committee Chair); Ellen Landau (Committee Member); Miriam Levin (Committee Member); Lisa Bernd (Committee Member); Anna Brzyski (Committee Member) Subjects: Art History; Slavic Literature

Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, 2013, History (Arts and Sciences)

The collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian Empires in 1918 created a power vacuum in Eastern Europe. Within this vacuum, an independent Poland emerged. The allied powers (France, Great Britain, the USA, and Italy) gathered in Paris to determine the peace settlements and the boundaries of new states. Each state arrived at the conference with their own visions, which, at times, conflicted with other nation's concepts. Events in the East, however, interrupted allied discussions and revealed the uncertainty in allied policy toward Poland. The David Lloyd George papers, published document collections, memoirs, and secondary literature reveal the connection between allied visions for post-war Europe and the level of support provided to Poland. Furthermore, the sources reveal the connection between allied opposition to Polish goals and Poland's use of its military to gain contested territory.

Committee: T. David Curp (Advisor); Steven Miner (Committee Member); John Brobst (Committee Member) Subjects: East European Studies; European History; History; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Modern History; Slavic Studies

Psy. D., Antioch University, 2012, Antioch Seattle: Clinical Psychology

It is now well known that six million Jews, 220,000 Roma, 250,000 disabled persons, and thousands of Homosexuals and Jehovah's witnesses were murdered in the Holocaust. It is less understood that due to their ethnic identity that approximately, 1. 9 million Polish Catholic citizens were murdered during the Holocaust and that 1.7 million Polish non-Jews were imprisoned in concentration camps in Siberia, 2.0 million were deported as forced laborers for the German Reich and 100,000 were killed in Auschwitz. To date, there are no studies within Western psychology that address the effects of the Holocaust for this population and/or their descendants. Given the known after-effects of Holocaust-related trauma for Jewish Holocaust survivors and their families, the trauma response observed in other genocide survivors, and the lack of psychological research aimed at exploring the experience of non-Jewish Holocaust survivors, there is a need to study the lived experience and effects of Holocaust-related trauma with Polish Catholic survivors and their families. This is an interpretative study that explores the lived experience of six Polish Catholic survivors and their descendants. The sample included 12 participants comprised of six survivors, four second generation and two third generation participants. Semi-structured interviews were used to examine participants' perception of how Holocaust related trauma influenced their lives. Textual analysis found that the Holocaust has lasting effects for survivors and their descendants. Findings indicate that the effects of the Holocaust for its Polish Catholic survivors are similar to the effects of the Holocaust observed in Jewish survivors and survivors of other genocides. Survivors conveyed that the Holocaust related trauma they experienced continues to effect them in their present day life through: loss of family, feelings of sadness, Holocaust related flashbacks and nightmares, and disturbances in memory or the ability (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Philip Cushman Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Samantha Slaughter Psy.D. (Committee Member); Mary Wieneke Ph.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Psychology