Michael Polczynski

Curriculum Advisor - SCS Summer Sessions

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Education
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - Doctor of Philosophy
Marquette Univ.
Univ. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Univ. of Chicago
Jagiellonian Univ
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - Master of Arts
Georgetown University - Ph.D.
University of Chicago - M.A.
Marquette University - B.A.

Michael Polczynski is a historian of early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

Bio and Featured Works

He earned his Ph.D. in history at Georgetown University, an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in History and Anthropology at Marquette University in his hop-forward motherland, Milwaukee Wisconsin. In past lives, he has worked as an archaeologist and a blacksmith. He is currently working on several books on early modern travel, and on Polish Muslims in the Ottoman Empire during the sixteenth century. He also enjoys working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and is helping lead Open Ottoman, an incubator for digital research in Ottoman studies.

About Michael Polczynski

Expertise

History

Languages

French
German
Italian
Latin
Polish
Romanian
Turkish
Turkish, Ottoman