Dr. Neal Pease, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Neal Pease is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is a past president of the Polish American Historical Association, and a member of the editorial board of our peer-reviewed journal Polish American Studies. He has received the PAHA Haiman Award and Swastek prizes. He serves as editor in chief of The Polish Review, a peer reviewed journal of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences. Pease wrote a prize-winning book on the Roman Catholic Church in interwar Poland: Rome's Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914-1939 (Ohio University Press, 2009). He is the recipient of the 2018 Joseph Swastek Prize for his article "Mighty Son of Poland: Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish Americans, and Sport in the 20thCentury,” Polish American Studies, 74/1 (2017): 7-26. This well-written and well- organized study of professional wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko (Jan Stanislaw Cyganiewicz) makes a persuasive argument based on extensive use of primary resources.