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The following represents an initial list of Classicists currently active in Poland, or presumed to be currently active. Because I feel that it would be very useful to have a detailed and comprehensive directory of Classical scholars for all the countries of East-Central Europe, my purpose here is simply to get the process moving, begin facilitating contacts among colleagues with whom it is still possible to communicate, and, on the basis of shared interests, encourage the establishment of professional links. Apart from the clearly identified Classicists themselves, the list includes educational administrators (e.g., deans and directors of broader academic units encompassing other areas of study besides the Classics) and scholars representing broader fields who are likely, in their teaching and research interests, to be involved with some aspect of Greek and Roman studies. Based on information in my files (often without reliable and updated published institutional staff directories) and using sometimes uneven data on the Internet, I have, for each scholar, tried to give the full name, academic rank/position (e.g., Professor, Docent/Associate Professor, Instructor, Lecturer, Assistant), academic title where rank is unavailable (e.g., Doctor, Doctoral Candidate, Master (Mgr.)), institutional affiliation with address (postal and, in some cases, e-mail as well), residential addresses (primarily for retired scholars) and a modest and hopefully representative, if hardly thorough, sampling of teaching and research specialties/writings (TRSW), concentrating usually on general content rather than providing precise and standard bibliographical citations. As stated above, this is intended to be only a starting point, because my CEECS project is, by its very nature, a "work in progress." I shall refine and add much more to my data as I work my way through the extensive amounts of material currently in my possession. For many of the persons listed, additional information can obviously be secured by looking them up individually by name on the Internet. Meanwhile, not just from the persons already mentioned on this list, but from those whom I have not included but who should be added, and other interested and knowledgeable individuals, I welcome further information of the sort described above, together with corrections, suggested deletions, updates, comments, and other appropriate supplementary items. All these can be sent to the website’s e-mail address ( Choceecs@aol.com) or by surface mail to Chester F. Natunewicz, Ph.D., 2107 Teague Road, Houston, TX 77080-6409, USA. My ultimate hope is to assemble for each country in Eastern and Central Europe a volunteer team of collaborators who, on a regular basis, can provide for this Internet site additional and current information, and I would obviously like to hear from any and all who wish to join me. Language is not a problem; I read without difficulty Polish and most of the other languages of the former Soviet-bloc countries (as well as French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese).
For assisting me in compiling this current, albeit fragmentary, list I am deeply indebted to a number of Polish scholars who over the past 45 years have helped me accumulate the factual information which I am now attempting to disseminate more broadly among Classical colleagues beyond the countries of Central and East Europe. Most recently I have been encouraged and supported by Prof. Ewa M. Thompson, Chair of the Department of Slavic and Germanic Studies at Rice University here in Houston, who made possible the publication, in the April, 2000 issue of the Sarmatian Review , of a substantial article in which I discussed the necessity for my project and explained its importance. Herewith follows my listing.
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