Interview with Professor Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Geneviève Zubrzycki is Professor of Sociology (2003-present) and Director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, and the Center for European Studies at the University of Michigan. She is also affiliated with the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.
A comparative-historical and cultural sociologist, her research focuses on nationalism and religion, collective memory and national mythology, and the contested place of religious symbols in the public sphere. Zubrzycki is the author of the award-winning books The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (Chicago 2006) and Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion and Secularism in Quebec (Chicago 2016), and the editor of National Matters: Materiality, Culture, and Nationalism (Stanford 2017). She will devote her fellowship year to completing a new book on the on-going revival of Jewish communities in Poland and non-Jewish Poles’ interest in all things Jewish, tentatively entitled Nationalism, Philosemitism and Poland’s Jewish Revival.