Gabriela Pawlus Kasprzak ( Ph.D. in history, University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. Her interests include religion and nationalism; hybrid identity; cross-Atlantic relations (diaspora vs. homeland). She has published in Polish American Studies and Historical Studies, and contributed to the Polish American Studies on the history of Poles in Canada, and to The Polish American Encyclopaedia. She currently lectures on Canadian history, migration history, and qualitative methods in the humanities at the University of Toronto.
2016 Vol. 8 No. 2—Spring / Books
Uncovering a Polish communist movement in Canada, historian Patryk Polec suggests the radical ideas came from Poland. Reviewer Gabriela Pawlus Kasprzak thinks the Poles were radicalized here. Either way, a surprising, interesting read.