# Patrice Dabrowski Independent Scholar, Central and Eastern European History ![Patrice M. Dabrowski](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/huri/files/dabrowski_p_1.png?itok=TcyvfbPF) email laptop\_windows [Academia](https://independent.academia.edu/PatriceDabrowski) Patrice M. Dabrowski has a PhD in History from Harvard University, where she studied under Roman Szporluk. She is currently a HURI Associate, a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, and editor of H-Poland. Dabrowski is the author of three books: *The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine* (2021), *Poland: The First Thousand Years* (2014; paperback edition, 2016; audiobook, 2022), and *Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland* (2004). In 2014 she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. Dabrowski was the 2021 recipient of the Mary Zirin Prize, awarded annually by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies to an independent scholar. In 2022 her Carpathians book won two Polish awards: honorable mention for Pro Historia Polonorum, an award for the best Polish history book written by a non-Polish historian in the last five years (2017-2021) as well as honorable mention in the category “best foreign publication promoting Poland’s history” sponsored by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Dabrowski continues to study and write about the Carpathian Mountains. - ## Fields of Expertise [Medieval and Early Modern History](/fields-expertise/medieval-early-modern-history) [Modern History](/fields-expertise/modern-history) - ## Role [HURI Associates](/role/huri-associates)