Tomasz Kamusella FRHistS
Kamusella speaking at the First Codification Conference of the Silesian Language in June 2008
Born	Tomasz Dominik Kamuzela (1967-12-24)24 December 1967 (age 57) Kędzierzyn,Opole Voivodeship, Poland
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Silesia in Katowice
Academic work
Sub-discipline	Language Politics, Nationalism Studies, History of Central and Eastern Europe
Institutions	University of St Andrews

Tomasz KamusellaFRHistS (born 24 December 1967) is a Polish scholar pursuing interdisciplinary research inlanguage politics,nationalism, andethnicity.^[1]

Kamusella was educated at theUniversity of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Philology inSosnowiec Campus (English language), Poland;Potchefstroom University (now part of theNorth-West University),Potchefstroom, South Africa;^[2][3] and theCentral European University (co-accredited then by theOpen University,Milton Keynes, United Kingdom),Prague Campus,^[4]Czech Republic. He obtained his doctor degree inpolitical science from the Institute of Western Affairs (Instytut Zachodni),Poznań, Poland andhabilitation inCultural Studies from theWarsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities,Warsaw, Poland.^[5]

From 1994 to 1995, he taught in the Language Teachers' Training College (Nauczycielskie Kolegium Języków Obcych),Opole, Poland, and between 1995 and 2007 at theUniversity of Opole, Opole, Poland.^[6][7] From 2002 to 2006, he did postdoctoral research in theEuropean University Institute,Florence, Italy; theJohn W. Kluge Center,Library of Congress, Washington, DC, United States;^[8] the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM),Vienna,Austria;^[9] and the Herder-Institut(de),Marburg, Germany. As visiting professor, in 2007 to 2010, he taughtCentral andEastern EuropeanHistory andPolish History andPolitics inTrinity College, Dublin, Ireland,^[10][11] in 2010–11 at theCracow University of Economics,Kraków, Poland;^[12] and in 2011 did research in theSlavic Research Center,^[13]Hokkaido University,Sapporo, Japan.^[14] Since then, he teaches in the School of History (Centre forTransnational and Spatial History)^[15] at theUniversity of St Andrews,St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.^[16]

In 1996, he was employed as thePlenipotentiary on European Integration to the Regional Governor (Pełnomocnik Wojewody ds. Integracji Europejskiej) in the Regional Authority (Urząd Wojewódzki) of Opole.^[17] 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 theEuropean Commission, and financing that led to the establishment of theEuropean Documentation Center in Opole.^[18] Thanks to his 1998 officialEuropean Union Visitors Program visit to the SpanishAutonomous Community ofGalicia, in 1999 a co-operation agreement was signed between this Spanish region andOpole Region.^[19]

• A Dictionary of English Homophones with Explanations in Polish. 1992. Potchefstroom: Potchefstroom University and Katowice: Uniwersytet Slaski, 180pp.^[20]
• The Dynamics of the Policies of Ethnic Cleansing in Silesia During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 2000. Prague: Research Support Scheme, 710pp.^[21]
• Silesia and Central European Nationalisms: The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia, 1848–1918. 2007.West Lafayette, IN:Purdue University Press, 386 pp. ISBN 978-1-55753-371-5.^[22]
• The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe. 2009. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 1168 pp.ISBN 9780230583474.^[23]
• Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium. 2015. Basingstoke: Palgrave Pivot, 168 pp.;ISBN 9781137507839.
• The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity. 2017. Basingstoke: Palgrave Pivot, 162 pp.;ISBN 9783319600352.
• Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War: The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria (Ser: Routledge Studies in Modern European History). 2018. London: Routledge, 328pp.ISBN 9781138480520.
• Limits / Styknie (bilingual, English-Silesian edition of short stories, translated from the English by Marcin Melon). 2019. (Ser: Ślōnski druk. Modernŏ literatura pō naszymu). Kotōrz Mały: Silesia Progress.ISBN 9788365558282, 324pp.
• (with Asnake Kefale and Christopher Van der Beken)Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia: From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation. 2021. London: Routledge, 162pp.ISBN 9781003158097doi:10.4324/9781003158097
• Politics and the Slavic Languages. 2021. London: Routledge, 350 pp.ISBN 9780367569846doi:10.4324/9781003100188
• Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe. 2021. Budapest and New York: CEU Press, 310pp & 42 full color maps.ISBN 9789633864173

• (edited with Wojciech Burszta and Sebastian Wojciechowski)Nationalisms Across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms in State-Endowed and Stateless Nations (Vol 1: Europe). 2005. Poznań: Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, 502pp.ISBN 83-87653-51-9,ISBN 83-87653-41-1
• (edited with Wojciech Burszta and Sebastian Wojciechowski)Nationalisms Across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms in State-Endowed and Stateless Nations (Vol. 2: The World). 2006. Poznań: Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, 558pp.ISBN 83-87653-51-9,ISBN 83-87653-41-1
• (edited with Krzysztof Jaskułowski)Nationalisms Today. 2009. Oxford: Peter Lang. 334pp.ISBN 9783039118830
• (edited with Motoki Nomachi)The Multilingual Society of Vojvodina: Intersecting Borders, Cultures and Identities. 2014. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University.ISBN 9784938637781.
• (edited with James Bjork, Tim Wilson and Anna Novikov)Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880–1950: Modernity, Violence and (Be)longing in Upper Silesia (Ser: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe, Vol 25). 2016. London: Routledge, 252pp.ISBN 9780415835961.
• (edited with Motoki Nomachi and Catherine Gibson)The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders. 2016. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 582pp.ISBN 9781137348388
• (edited with Motoki Nomachi and Catherine Gibson).Central Europe Through the Lens of Language and Politics: On the Sample Maps from the Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe (Ser: Slavic Eurasia Papers, Vol 10). 2017. Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, 111pp +10 maps.ISBN 9784938637910
• (edited with Finex Ndhlovu)The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages. 2018. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 412pp.ISBN 9781137015921doi:10.1057/978-1-137-01593-8

• W bżuhu vieloryba [In a Whale's Belly, a collection of essays on nationalism and language politics in Asia, the Balkans and Central Europe. Introduction by Prof Wojciech J Burszta]. 2006. Toruń, Poland: Wydawnictwo A Marszałek, 305 pp. ISBN 978-83-7441-383-1.

• 1967 births
• Living people
• People from Silesia
• People from Kędzierzyn-Koźle
• Linguistic rights
• Linguists of Silesian
• 21st-century Polish historians
• Academic staff of the University of Opole
• University of Silesia in Katowice alumni
• Central European University alumni
• North-West University alumni
• Academics of the University of St Andrews
• Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
• SWPS University alumni

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