Frankee Lyons
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Frankee Lyons is a Ph.D. candidate in Modern Eastern European History working with Małgorzata Fidelis and Keely Stauter-Halsted. Her dissertation examines Jewish experiences during post-Stalinist political liberalization in Poland and new migration policies generated during this period between 1953 and the early 1960s.
Teaching Experience
Instructor, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Polish Jewish History after the Holocaust, 1944 – present [Fall 2022]
Instructor of Record, University of Illinois Chicago
HIST 117: Understanding the Holocaust [Fall 2021]
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois Chicago
HIST 234: History of Poland [Fall 2017]
HIST 101: Western Civilization since 1648 [Spring 2018]
HIST 213: Europe, 1815 – 1914 [Fall 2018]
HIST 235: Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe [Spring 2019]
Notable Honors
2022, Polish National Alliance Award, UIC Department of History
2020, JDC Archives Nathan & Sarah Chesin Fellowship, JDC Archives
2019, IIE Fulbright U.S. Student Research Grant, U.S. Department of State
2019, Title VIII Research & Language Fellowship, U.S. Department of State
2019, PROM EU International Scholarship, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA)
2018, Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship, Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, Poland
2017, 2018, Portable Title VIII Fellowship, U.S. Department of State
2016, 2018, 2020, Polish Resistance (AK) Foundation Scholarship, UIC Department of History
2016, University Fellowship, UIC Graduate College
Education
Master of Arts in History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bachelor of Arts in History, The George Washington University
Professional Memberships
Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)
Polish Studies Association (PSA)
Selected Presentations
Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies 2022 Annual Convention, November 2022
Session: Uncomfortable In-Betweens: 20th Century Jewish Migration in East Central Europe
Paper: (Living) Spaces of Jewish Migration in Post-Stalinist Poland, 1956-60
Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies 2021 Annual Convention, November 2021
Session: Continuities & Encounters in Postwar Jewish History: Polish & Soviet Case Studies
Paper: Beyond Israel: Jewish Responses to the Gomułka Aliyah
JDC Archives Fellowship Lecture, public webinar, 27 May 2021
Invited Lecture: The JDC in Poland after 1957
Association for Jewish Studies 2020 Annual Conference, online, December 2020
Session: Jews in Communist Poland, 1947-1968
Paper: A Chance to Start Anew: Jews in the Second Repatriation, 1956-1960
Fulbright Open Lecture, Medical University of Warsaw, 25 October 2019
Invited Lecture: Jewish Belonging and the Polish Road to Socialism, 1953-60
Seventh World Congress on Polish Studies, University of Gdańsk, June 2019
Paper: Youth, Yiddish & the ‘Zionist’ Threat: Global Jewish Connection and Commemoration, Warsaw 1955
Research Currently in Progress
Research Interests:
Modern Eastern Europe; history of Poland; modern Jewish history; history of communism; global Cold War; migration, exile, diaspora.