Senior Lecturer

Modern European History

 

E-mail: msuszko@luc.edu

 

Office: Crown Center 525

Phone:773.508.2216

 

Research Interests:

• Modern Poland
• Modern Eastern Europe
• History of Nationalism
• History of Communism

Courses Taught:

• HIST 300C: History of European Nationalism
• HIST 316: History of Poland
• HIST 325: Eastern Europe in the XX Century
• HIST 325A: Eastern Europe, 1920- Present
• HIST 325B: History of European Communism
• HIST 337: Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

Loyola Service:

• Award-winning teacher and has been the recipient of the Master Teacher Award at Loyola University Chicago, 2010
• The Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award at Purdue University NorthCentral, 2004
• Faculty reviewer and judge for the Undergraduate Student FORUM, an annual competition of papers on Central and Eastern Europe

Service Outside Loyola:

• Dr. Suszko is currently completing his book, tentatively entitled Building a Socialist Nation: Stalinist Poland 1945 – 1956. 

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004
• Teachers’ College in Zielona Góra, Poland, 1996