Radosław Rybkowski

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Radosław Rybkowski
University Professor, Ph.D. habil.
1966-05-17
Lublin, Poland

ul. Lipska 61 apt. 67
30-721 Kraków, POLAND

+48 606 552 697
+48 519 078 316
radoslaw.rybkowski@uj.edu.pl

Education

2013

Ph.D. hab. (terminal degree in Poland) in Social Science, Political Science Jagiellonian University, Faculty of International and Political Studies habilitation book: Ziemią i pieniędzmi. Początki federalnej polityki wobec szkolnictwa wyższego w USA; Jagiellonian University Press: Kraków 2012. (With land and money. The beginnings of US federal higher education policy) focus on higher education policy

2000

Ph.D. in Humanities, Jagiellonian University, Center for American Studies Ph.D. dissertation: Strategie promowania kariery aktorskiej na przykładzie amerykańskich występów Heleny Modrzejewskiej i Sary Bernhardt (Strategies of promoting actresses' career: Helena Modjeska and Sarah Bernhardt and their American careers) Prepared under the guidance of professor Emil Orzechowski Dissertation defended at the Faculty of Philology of the Jagiellonian University

1995

M.A., Polish and Theatre Studies Jagiellonian University, Institute of Polish Philology

Professional career

since Sep 2016

Director of the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora

since Jan 2016

Member of Polish Accreditation Committee

Polish statutory agency for quality assurance in higher education

2007-2014

Associate Professor, Chair of American Studies
Institute of Political Science
Jesuit University “Ignatianum” in Krakow

since Oct 2000

Associate Professor
Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora
Jagiellonian University

Jan 2008-May 2008

Visiting Professor,

Oct 2005-Dec 2005

Department of Political Science; University of Rochester, USA

Fellowships and grants awarded

2011

Research Grant N 116 4593 40, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, (4 persons team) responsible for research on Canadian educational and cultural policy
Pokój, porządek i dobry rząd. Najważniejsze zagadnienia współczesnej polityki Kanady (Peace, order, and good government. Issues in contemporary Canadian politics)

2010 and 2012 (Aug-Sept)

Faculty Enrichment Program Grant,
International Council for Canadian Studies and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada
York University, Faculty of Education
Research on Canadian higher education policy (federal and Ontario)

Jan-Jun 2009

Fulbright Fellowship
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Personal Development
New York University
Research on the emergence of the US federal higher education policy

Jun-Jul 2004

Fulbright Fellowship,
Fulbright Institute for the Study of the Civilization of the United States
Multinational Institute of American Studies, New York University

2004

Program Development Award, May 2004
Tokyo Foundation

An award to initiate international collaboration of Institute of American Studies with Renvall Institute of the University of Helsinki and Institute of American Studies of the University of Leipzig

Membership

Polish Association of Canadian Studies, since May 2001, (2004-2010 – member of the Board)

Association for the Study of Higher Education, since November 2005

Polish Association of Political Science, since September 2004

Polish Association of American Studies, since January 2005 (Oct 2008-Oct 2010 – secretary of the Board)

Research interests

North American Higher Education Policy (especially: inclusive education, financial assistance and internationalization of US and Canadian higher education)

European Higher Education Policy (especially: reforms of higher education systems; the Bologna process) Central Europe after Transformation (especially: cultural and social change after the transformation)

History of American Theatre (especially: the 19th century reception of popular entertainment)

Recent publications (a selection)

Books

Ziemią i pieniędzmi. Początki federalnej polityki wobec szkolnictwa wyższego w USA; Jagiellonian University Press: Kraków 2012. (With land and money. The beginnings of US federal higher education)

Upadek stopni/ Stopnie upadku. Problemy amerykańskiego szkolnictwa wyższego, WAM Kraków 2011. (Decline of Degrees/Degrees of Decline. Issues in American Higher Education)

Articles/chapters

Edukacyjna bańka? Zadłużenie amerykańskich studentów a wyzwania polityki wobec szkolnictwa wyższego, „Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe”, 1 (51)/2018, p. 97-115. (Educational bubble? Student debt in the USA as the challenge to higher education policy)

Justyna m. Bugaj, Radosław Rybkowski, The use of international rankings in the formulation of university stategic goals—the Polish perspective, “Journal of Economics and Management” 34 (4)/2018, p. 39-57; doi: 10.22367/jem.2018.34.02

Across the Atlantic. Why American Studies in Poland?, [w:] Agnieszka Małek, Anna Bartnik (red.), Visegrad Studies on Americas. Past and Present, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka 2016, s. 7-12.

Autonomia a rozliczalność – polskie wyzwania, „Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyższe”, 1 (45)/2015, p. 133-153. (Autonomy versus accountability—Polish challenges)

Polityka naukowa. Innowacyjność w polityce Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki, „Horyzonty Polityki” 6 (16)/2015, p. 63-74. (Research policy. Innovations in the United States policies).

co-authored with Justyna M. Bugaj, Prywatne korzyści z wyższego wykształcenia – analiza finansowa, „Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego: Finanse, Rynki Finansowe, Ubezpieczenia”, 74 (855)/2015, s. 687-696. (Private benefits of higher education—financial analysis)

Between Equity and Opportunity: The Decline of the Great Equalizer, [in:] red. Marcin Grabowski, Kryštof Kozák, György Tóth, The United States as Divided Nation. Past and Present, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang Edition, 2014, p. 119-132.

Unpredictable Future. The Impossibility of Higher Education Policy, [w:] Tadeusz Marek (red.), Advances in Science, Technology, Higher Education and Society in the Conceptual Age: STHESCA, AHFE Conference, Louisville 2014, s. 86-92.

University Experience as Community Building, “Humanities and Social Sciences Latvia”, vol. 22, issue 2 (Autumn-Winter 2014), p. 4-13.

Polityka edukacyjna i kulturalna w Kanadzie, [w:] Marta Kijewska-Trembecka, Marcin Gabryś, Radosław Rybkowski, Tomasz Soroka, Kanada na przełomie XX i XXI wieku: polityka, społeczeństwo, edukacja, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka 2012, s. 211-249. (Educational and cultural policies of Canada, in: Canada at the turn of the 21st Century)

Higher education, greater opportunity. The role of higher education in securing economic growth (Japan, South Korea), [in:] Przemysław Skulski (ed.), Competitiveness of Economies in the Asia-Pacific Region. Selected Problems, Wrocław’s University of Economics 2011, p. 79-89.

Chciwość.edu. Chciwość, uniwersytety i polityka – amerykańskie uczelnie w Zatoce Perskiej, „Horyzonty Polityki”, 2 (2/2011), p. 223-239. (Greed.edu. Greed, universities and politics--US universities in the Gulf)

Meaningless History: The Use of History in the American Musical, [w:] Tomasz Basiuk, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, Krystyna Mazur (eds.). The American Uses of History, Frankfurt: Peter Lang 2010, p. 53-61.

Empty Promises, Empty Wallets, Pocket Full of Debts, “Politeja” vol. 13 (2010), p. 251-265.

Czy uczelnia daje do myślenia? Amerykańskie definiowanie ogólnego wykształcenia w college’ach, “Horyzonty Wychowania” 8/2009 (16), p. 41-59. (Does Higher Education Institution Encourage Thinking? The American Vision of General Education)

W cieniu Wielkiego Brata, in: (ed.) Tom McSorley, Nowe kino kanadyjskie, Korporacja Ha-Art, Kraków 2009, p. 7-12. (In the Shadow of Big Brother, [in:] New Canadian Cinema]

Technology for Theatre: How Inventions Changed 19th-century American Theatre, in: (eds.) Grzegorz Kość, Krzysztof Majer, Tools of Their Tools: Communications Technologies and American Cultural Practice, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009, p. 285-293.

The Autonomy of American Colleges, “Ad Americam. Journal of American Studies” vol. 10 (2009), p. 75-88.

Education for Growth. The Case of the USA, w: Актуальные проблемы бизнесобразования: материалы VIII Междунар.науч.-практ.конф.,23-24 апр.2009 г.,Минск/Бел.гос.ун-т, Ин-т бизнеса и менеджмента технологий / редкол.: В.В.Апанасович (гл.ред.) - Минс; "Интегралполиграф", 2009, p. 248 - 251