Tomasz Kamusella (born 24 December 1967) is a Polish scholar pursuing interdisciplinary research in language politics, nationalism, and ethnicity.

Education

Kamusella was educated at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Philology in Sosnowiec Campus (English language), Poland; Potchefstroom University (now part of the North-West University), Potchefstroom, South Africa; and the Central European University (co-accredited then by the Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom), Prague Campus, Czech Republic. He obtained his doctor degree in political science from the Institute of Western Affairs (Instytut Zachodni), Poznań, Poland and habilitation in Cultural Studies from the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland.

Academic career

From 1994 to 1995, he taught in the Language Teachers' Training College (Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych), Opole, Poland, and between 1995 and 2007 at the University of Opole, Opole, Poland. From 2002 to 2006, he did postdoctoral research in the European University Institute, Florence, Italy; the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, United States; the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM), Vienna, Austria; and the Herder-Institut (de), Marburg, Germany. As visiting professor, in 2007 to 2010, he taught Central and Eastern European History and Polish History and Politics in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, in 2010–11 at the Cracow University of Economics, Kraków, Poland; and in 2011 did research in the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Since then, he teaches in the School of History (Centre for Transnational and Spatial History) at the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

Civil servant

In 1996, he was employed as the Plenipotentiary on European Integration to the Regional Governor (Pełnomocnik Wojewody ds. Integracji Europejskiej) in the Regional Authority (Urząd Wojewódzki) of Opole. Later, from 1999 to 2002, he acted as Advisor on International Affairs to the Regional President (Doradca Marszałka ds. Współpracy z Zagranicą), Self-Governmental Regional Authority (Urząd Marszałkowski), Opole. In co-operation with the University of Opole, between 1997 and 2001, he managed the application in the European Commission, and financing that led to the establishment of the European Documentation Center in Opole. Thanks to his 1998 official European Union Visitors Program visit to the Spanish Autonomous Community of Galicia, in 1999 a co-operation agreement was signed between this Spanish region and Opole Region.

Books

Authored books in English

Edited volumes in English

Books in Polish