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Irena Grudzińska-Gross

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Polish historian of literature and culture

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Irena Grudzińska-Gross is a Polish historian. After fleeing from her native Poland as a university student following the 1968 Polish political crisis, she obtained her PhD at Columbia University and became a professor at Emory University and Boston University, as well as a resident scholar at Remarque Institute and...

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2018Guggenheim Fellowship
Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Member of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

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Irena Grudzińska-Gross is a Polish historian. After fleeing from her native Poland as a university student following the 1968 Polish political crisis, she obtained her PhD at Columbia University and became a professor at Emory University and Boston University, as well as a resident scholar at Remarque Institute and Princeton University. A 2018 Guggenheim Fellow in Intellectual and Cultural History, she has written historical books on modern Europe, including The Scar of Revolution (1991), Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets (2009), and Golden Harvest (2011), the latter of which she co-wrote with her ex-husband Jan T. Gross.

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Born 1946 · age 79
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