Mariusz Kałczewiak

Mariusz Kałczewiak is a historian of Modern Jewish History and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Before coming to USC, he worked at the University of Potsdam and at the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw and held fellowships at Brandeis University, University of Florida and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Mariusz earned a PhD in History from Tel Aviv University. His first monograph Polacos in Argentina. Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture appeared in 2020 with Alabama University Press and won the 2020 Best Book Award of Latin American Jewish Studies Association. Mariusz is currently completing his second book project, "Men of Valor and Anxiety. Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity" in which he explores how Polish-Jewish men developed and adjusted gender models and practices and made sense of themselves as men and Polish Jews.