Michał J. Wilczewski is a visiting lecturer in the Departments of History and Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Trained as a historian of modern East-Central Europe with a geographic focus on Poland, his current book project is entitled, Broken Land: Everyday Life and the Legacies of Imperialism in the Polish Countryside, 1914-1939. The book traces the daily activities of rural people in Poland in the years between the two World Wars as they rebuilt the countryside and helped shape the fledgling state. Focusing on ordinary farmers' everyday experiences--in their homes, fields, schoolhouses, and community centers--Broken Land explains how interwar Poland's rural dwellers experienced their transition from being imperial subjects to becoming citizens of a nation-state following the Great War. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago.