Ph.D. - Purdue University
M.A. - Purdue University
M.Ed. - University of Maryland
B.A. - State University of New York-Albany
Professional Activities
James S. Pula
Books Authored
New York Mills: The Evolution of a Village . Ethnic Heritage Studies Center , Utica College ; distributed by Syracuse University Press, 2004. Co-authored with Eugene E. Dziedzic.
Thaddeus Kościuszko: The Purest Son of Liberty . Hippocrene Press, 1998.
The Sigel Regiment: A History of the 26 th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1865. Savas Publishers, 1998. Winner of the Gambrinus Prize in History from the Milwaukee County Historical Society.
Polish Americans: An Ethnic Community. A volume in Twayne Publishers' (Macmillan) Immigrant Heritage of America Series, 1995. Winner of the 1996 Oskar Halecki Prize for the best book on Polish American history and culture.
United We Stand: The Role of Polish Workers in the New York Mills Textile Strikes,, 1912 and 1916. Columbia University Press, East European Monographs Series, 1990. Winner of the 1991 Oskar Halecki Prize for the best book on Polish American history and culture. Co-authored with Eugene E. Dziedzic.
For Liberty and Justice: The Life and Times of Wladimir Krzyżanowski. Chicago : Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation, 1978.
The History of a German-Polish Civil War Brigade . San Francisco : R&E Research, 1976.
The French in America . Dobbs Ferry , NY : Oceana Publications, 1975.
Edited Works
Editor, Polish American Studies , the scholarly journal of the Polish American Historical Association, 1982-present.
Editor-in-Chief, “Polish-American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia” project, Polish American Historical Association, 2004-present.
Advisory Board, “Polish and Polish-American Studies Series,” Ohio University Press, 2003-present.
Editor, PAHA Newsletter , published quarterly by the Polish American Historical Association, 1988-1994 and 1997-1998.
Ethnic Utica . Ethnic Heritage Studies Center , Utica College of Syracuse University, 2002 (revised and expanded 2nd edition).
Polish History in America to 1908 . The Catholic University of America Press, 1993. An edited English-language translation of Wacław Kruszka's 13-volume Historya Polska w Ameryce published between 1905 and 1908. This work was funded by two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and published in four volumes. Volume I appeared in 1993, Volume II in 1995, Volume III in 1998, and Volume IV in 2001.
Poland and Europe : Historical Dimensions. Proceedings of the Fiftieth Anniversary International Congress of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America . Volume I. Columbia University Press, East European Monographs, 1994.
The Polish Diaspora: Proceedings of the Fiftieth Anniversary International Congress of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America . Volume II. Columbia University Press, East European Monographs, 1994.
Heart of the Nation: Polish Culture and Literature. Proceedings of the Fiftieth Anniversary International Congress of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America . Volume III. Columbia University Press, East European Monographs, 1994.
Ethnic Utica . Ethnic Heritage Studies Center , Utica College of Syracuse University , 1994.
The Memoirs of Ludwik Żychliński . Columbia University Press, East European Monographs, 1993. Translated from the Polish by Eugene Podraza.
Polish Democratic Thought From the Renaissance to the Great Emigration: Essays and Documents. Columbia University Press, East European Monographs, 1990. Co-edited with M. B. Biskupski.
Issues & Options: Energizing for the Future . Edited with Thomas Kowalik. Washington , DC : National University Continuing Education Association, Region II, 1988. Edited proceedings of the 1988 Region II annual conference.
Polish Folkways in America , by Eugene Obidinski and Helen Zand (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987). Served as general editor.
Challenge and Change. Washington , DC : National University Continuing Education Association, Region II, 1986. Edited proceedings of the 1986 Region II annual conference.
Ethnic Rochester . Lanham , MD : University Press of America , 1985. Published as a Sesquicentennial Celebration project of the City of Rochester, New York.
Grantsmanship in Gerontology . Washington , DC : Academic Consulting, Inc., 1981.
The Memoirs of Wladimir Krzyżanowski . San Francisco : R&E Research, 1978.
An Index to Polish American Studies, 1944-1973 . Chicago : Polish American Historical Association, 1977.