Eastern Europe

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James Felak
Professor
Newman Center Professor in Catholic Christianity

Latest News

Professor James Felak publishes new book The Pope in Poland: The Pilgrimages of John Paul II, 1979-1991 (October 20, 2021)
In Memoriam: Jon Bridgman, 1930-2015 (March 26, 2015)
Recent PhD Completes Innovative Dissertation (October 25, 2013)

Related Research

"Forgotten Velvet: Understanding Eastern Slovakia's 1989," New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and East European Politics and International Relations, vol. 27, no. 3, (Winter 2019): 63-100.
"Prague Spring on the Periphery: Eastern Slovak Steelworkers React to Reform and Invasion in 1968," Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, (Winter 2018).
"Kicked Out: Czechoslovakia's Postwar Policy toward Ethnic Minorities and Its Unintended Outcomes," Slovakia vol. 43, no. 80-81, (2017): 81-104.
"A Remarkable Reversal: Communist Czechoslovakia's Reinstatement of Eastern Rite Catholicism during the Prague Spring," Journal of Church and State, vol. 58, no. 2, (Spring 2016): 331-354.
“Pope John Paul II, the Saints, and Communist Poland: The Papal Pilgrimages of 1979 and 1983,” The Catholic Historical Review, Volume 100, No. 3 (Summer, 2014), 555-574.
Swain, Amanda. A Death Transformed: The Political and Social Consequences of Romas Kalanta's Self-Immolation, Soviet Lithuania, 1972. Diss. University of Washington, 2013. Chair: Glennys Young.
Felak, James. After Hitler, Before Stalin: Catholics, Communists, and Democrats in Slovakia, 1945-1948. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. Print.
“Polish Communist Perspectives on John Paul II The Pope’s 1979 Pilgrimage to Poland in State, Party, and Police Documents,” The Polish Review, Vol. 55, No. 1, (2021), 25-40
Felak, James. At the Price of the Republic: Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, 1929-1938. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. Print.
Elezovic, Arna. Modern Antiquities: Arthur Evans, the Balkans, and the Discovery of a Lost European Civilization. University of Washington: completion date June 2021.