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Haiman Award

1966: Oscar Halecki
1967: No award presented (Marion Moore Coleman voted award)
1968: Marion Moore Coleman (presented award voted her the previous December)
1969: Arthur Waldo
1970: Ludwik Krzyzanowski
1971: Joseph Swastek
1972: (?)
1973: M.J. Madaj
1974: No award
1975: Waclaw Jedrzejewicz
1976: Jacek Przygoda
1977: No award
1978: Frank Renkiewicz
1979: Metchie Budka
1980: Joseph Wieczerzak
1981: Victor Greene
1982: Ellen Marie Kuznicki
1983: Thaddeus Radzialowski
1984: Eugene Kusielewicz
1985: Thaddeus Gromada
1986: Edward Rozanski
1987: Helena Znaniecki Lopata
1988: James S. Pula
1989: Edward Pinkowski
1990: Stanislaus Blejwas
1991: No award
1992: Anthony J. Kuzniewski, S.J.
1993: Andrzej Brozek
1994: John J. Bukowczyk
1995: No award
1996: No award
1997: No award
1998: No award
1999: Daniel Buczek
2000: William Galush
2001: No award
2002: Thomas Gladsky
2003: Mieczeslaw M.B. Biskupski
2004: Adam Walaszek
2005: Donald & Angela Pienkos
2006: Mary Patrice Erdmans

Oskar Halecki Prize

1981: Anthony Kuzniewski, Faith and Fatherland: The Polish Church War in Wisconsin, 1896-1918

1982: Lawrence Orton, Polish Detroit and the Kolasinski Affair

1983: Joseph Parot, Polish Catholics in Chicago: 1850- 1920

1984: John Bodnar, Roger Simon, and Michael Weber, Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians and Poles in Pittsburgh,1900-1960

1985: Donald Pienkos, PNA: A Centennial History of the Polish National Alliance

1986: Frank Renkiewicz, For God, Country, and Polonia: One Hundred Years of the Orchard Lake Schools

1987: John Bukowczyk, And My Children Did Not Know Me: A History of the Polish-Americans and Eugene Obidinski and Helen Stankiewicz Zand, Polish Folkways in America: Community and Family

1988: Josephine Wtulich, Marcin Kula, Witold Kula, and Nina Assorodobraj-Kula, Writing Home: Immigrants in Brazil and the United States, 1890-1891

1989: Sister Ann Marie Knawa, O.S.F., As God Shall Ordain: A History of the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago, 1894-1987

1990: Barbara Stern Burstin, After the Holocaust: The Migration of Polish Jews and Christians to Pittsburgh

1991: James S. Pula and Eugene E. Dziedzic, United We Stand: The Role of Polish Workers in the New York Mills Textile Strikes , 1912 and 1916

1992: Dominic Pacyga, Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922

1993: Thomas Gladsky, Princes, Peasants, and Other Polish Selves: Ethnicity in American Literature

1994: Anthony Bukoski, Children of Strangers

1995: James S. Pula, Polish Americans: An Ethnic Community

1996: No award

1997: Suzanne Strempek Shea, Hoopi Shoopi Donna

1998: Mary Patrice Erdmans, Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990

1999: Thomas S. Gladsky and Rita Holmes Gladsky, eds., Something of My Very Own to Say: American Women Writers of Polish Descent and Joseph Wieczerzak, Bishop Francis Hodur: Biographical Essays

2000: Deborah Anders Silverman, Polish-American Folklore

2001: No award

2002: Joseph Bigott, From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869-1929 and Stephen Leahy, Clement Zablocki, Milwaukee's Most Politician: A Study of Local Politics and Congressional Foreign Policy

2003: Karen Majewski, Traitor and True Poles: Narrating a Polish American Identity, 1880-1939 by published by Ohio University Press

2004: Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchman, The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939-1956, Ohio University Press, 2004

2005: Mary Patrice Erdmans, The Grasinski Girls: The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made, Ohio University Press.

2006: John Radzilowski, Poles in Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005

Swastek Award

1981: Daniel Buczek, Ethnic to American: Holy Name of Jesus Parish, Stamford, Connecticut" (Autumn 1980)

1982: Stanislaus A. Blejwas, "Old and New Polonias: Tensions Within an Ethnic Community" (Autumn 1981)

1983: No award

1984: Stanley Cuba, "Reverend Anthony Klawiter" (Autumn 1983)

1985: John Bukowczyk, "Polish Rural Culture and Immigrant Working Class Formation" (Autumn 1984)

1986: Stanislaus Blejwas, "Puritans and Poles: The New England Literary Image of the Polish Peasant Immigrant" (Autumn 1985)

1987: David Januszewski, "The Case of the Polish Exile Government in the American Press, 1939-1945" (Spring 1986)

1988: Anthony Kuzniewski, "`Jeste my Polakami': Wenceslaus Kruszka and the Value of America's Polish Heritage"(Autumn 1987)

1989: Mary E. Cygan, "A `New Art' for Polonia: Polish American Radio Comedy in the 1930s," XLV (Autumn 1988)

1990: Marcin Kula, "Those Who Failed to Reach the United States: Polish Proletarians in Cuba During The Interwar Period," XLVI (Spring 1989)

1991: William J. Galush, "Purity and Power: Chicago Polonian Feminists, 1880-1914," XLVII (Spring 1990

1992: John Radzilowski, "One Community, One Church, Two Towns: The Poles of Southwestern Minnesota, 1882- 1905" XLVIII (Autumn 1991)

1993: Adam Walaszek, "How Could It All Appear So Rosy? --Re-emigrants from the United States in Poland, 1919-1924" XLIX (Autumn 1992)

1994: Stanislaus A. Blejwas, "Stanislaw Osada: Immigrant Nationalist," L, No. 1 (Spring 1993)

1995: Robert D. Ubriaco, Jr., "Bread and Butter Politics or Foreign Policy Concerns? Class Versus Ethnicity in the Midwestern Polish American Community During the 1946 Congressional Elections," LI, No. 2 (Autumn 1994)

1996: John Radzilowski, "`The Other Side of Chicago': The Poles of Arizona" LII, no. 2 (Autumn 1995)

1997: Celia Berdes and Adam Zych, "The Quality of Life of Polish Immigrant and Polish Elderly" LIII, no. 1 (Spring 1996)

1998: Francis Kajencki, "Kosciuszko's Role in the Siege of Ninety-Six" LIV, no. 2 (Autumn 1997)

1999: Stanislaus Blejwas, "The Republic of Poland and the Origins of the Polish American Congress" LV, no. 1 Spring 1998)

2000: Timothy Borden, "The Salvation of the Poles: Working Class Ethnicity and Americanization Efforts During the Interwar Period in Toledo, Ohio" LVI, no. 2 (Autumn 1999)

2001: Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, "The Polish Post- World War II Diaspora: An Agent for a New Millenium" LVII, no. 2 (Autumn 2000)

2002: Anna Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, "The Mobilization of American Polonia for the Cause of the Displaced Persons" LVIII, no. 1 (Spring 2001)

2003: Stanislaus Blejwas, "Polonia's response the Wrzesznia School Strike." (2002)

2004: Ann Hetzel Gunkel, "The Sacred in the City: Polonian Street Processions as Countercultural Practice," PAS vol. 60. no. 2 (2003 Autumn)

2005: Neal Pease, “The Kosciuszko Reds, 1909-1919: Kings of the Milwaukee Sandlots,” Polish American Studies v. 61, Spring 2004.

2006: Adam Walaszek, “Tomasz Siemiradzki: An Intellectual in Ethnic Politics,” Polish American Studies 62, Autumn 2005.

Stanley A. Kulczycki Prize

1998: No award
1999: No award
2002: No award

2005: Brian McCook, “The Borders of Integration: Polish Migrant Workers in the Ruhr Valley of Germany and the Pennsylvania Anthracite Regions of the United States, 1870-1924,” University of California-Berkeley, 2004.

2006: Iwona Drag Korga, “Dzialalnosc propagandowa rzadu RP na uchodzstwie wobec spoleczenstwo amerykanskiego (1939-1945,” Akademia Pedagogiczna im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej, Kraków, 2004.

Distinguished Service Award

1986: Sister Ellen Marie Kuznicki, CSSF, and Mieczyslaw Haiman (posthumously)
19xx: Sister Clarent Marie Urbanowicz: no record of this award
1988: Henry Archacki
1991: Walter Lasinski
1992: Frank Harasick
1993: Msgr. John P. Wodarski
1994: ?
1995: Rev. Senior Casimir Grotnik
1996: Boleslaw Wierzbianski
1997: Skalny Family (four individuals)
1998: Stanislaus Blejwas
1999: James S. Pula
2000: Thaddeus V. Gromada
2001: John J. Bukowczyk
2002: Karen Majewski
2003: Tom Napierkowski
2004: no award
2005: Mark Kulikowski
2006:Joseph Wieczerzak and Theodore Zawistowski

Civic Achievement Award

1989: Skalny Family

1991: Blanka Rosentiel

1992: Donald F. Samull

1993: The Kopernik Memorial Association (Utica, New York)

1994: Wanda Tomczykowska Mark Kohan Sabina Logisz

1995: Rose Parulski (Wilno, Minn.)

1996: Maria Chrypinska (Orchard Lake, Mich.)

1997: Dr. Anatol Dekeban and the Polanie Club of Minneapolis

1998: American Council for Polish Culture Edward Pinkowski Cecelia Patalita (Utica, N.Y.) Chester Rog (Minneapolis)

1999: Maria Lorys Lucyna Migala Paul Valasek Frank Spula Jerry Kucharski Rev. Frank Philips

2000: Rev. Anthony Iwuc Irene Grabowy Dr. Anthony Bajdek Irene Pipes

2001: Michael Krolewski, Detroit; Rev. Walter Madej, Utica; Kathleen Urbanic, Rochester; Wojciech and Maria Przezdziecki, Rochester; Wanda Tomczykowska, San Francisco

2002: Victor and Irena Barczyk, Chicago; Maria Chwojko, Park Ridge, Ill.; Zygmunt Dyrkacz, Chicago; Christopher Kurczaba, Illinois PAC; Leszek Kuczynski, PAC; Jan Lorys, Chicago; Msgr. Stanley Milewski, Orchard Lake, Mich.; Joseph Zurawski, Naród Polski

2003: Leonard Baldyga, Washington DC; Dr. John Leczowski, Washington DC; Ted & Irena Mirecki, Washington DC; Dr. Estelle Wachtel von Torres, MD, Washington DC; Marcin Zmudzki, Washington DC; Joseph Furgal, Washington DC;

2004: Tom Podl, Seattle; Ron and Martha Golubiec, Seattle; The Polish Home, Seattle

2005: Michael Blichasz. Philadelphia; Feliks Bruks, died in June 2005; Hilary Czaplicki, Philadelphia; Eugene Golomb, Rochester, New York; Regina Gorzkowska-Rossi. Nowy Dziennik, Philadelphia; Michael Leach. Michael Leach; Rochester, NY; Deborah Majka, Philadelphia, Polish American Congress; Frederic Skalny, Rochester, NY

2006: Drs. Elzbieta and Krzysztof Krawczynski, Atlanta, GA; Dorota Lato Folkert, Atlanta, GA; Lee J. Meyer, Savannah, GA; Edward Pinkowski; Bozena Zaremba, Atlanta, GA.

Creative Arts Award

1999: Ada Dziewanowska, author of Polish Folk Dances and Songs: A Step by Step Guide
2000: Suzanne Strempek Shea, author
2001: No award
2002: Lucyna Migala, Lira Singers, Chicago
2003: Tony Bukowski, Time Between Trains
2004: Keith Maillard, The Clarinet Polka
2005: Marek Czarnecki, icon painter
2006: Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Ph.D., Professor of Cultural Studies

Amicus Poloniae Award

2001: Rev. William Wolkowich-Valkavicius
2002: No award
2002: Laurie Winters, Milwaukee Art Museum (Da Vinci exhibition) 2003: Dr. Rudolph Vecoli, Immigration History Research Center
2004: Catholic University of America Press
2005: Gillian Berchowitz, Ohio University Press
2006: Joe Wurl, IHRC, National Endowment for the Humanities