Patrice M. Dabrowski is a historian with degrees from Harvard University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She has taught and worked at Harvard, Brown, the University of Vienna, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dr. Dabrowski is currently an Associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA), and editor of H-Poland. In addition to having held a number of grants and postdoctoral fellowships, she has also won awards for several scholarly articles. Dabrowski is the author of two books: Poland: The First Thousand Years and Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland. Her third book, “Discovering” the Carpathians: Episodes in Imagining and Reshaping Alpine Borderland Regions, is currently under consideration by a publisher. Her scholarly interests include nation-building, popular memory and commemorations, the history of tourism in the Carpathians, Austrian Galicia, the Hutsuls, and Polish-Ukrainian relations, broadly understood.