Magdalena Blackmore

• POL1894 - Introductory Polish 2
• POL3894 - Advanced Polish Through Short Stories
• POL2660 - History and Film the Polish Case
• POL1900 - Love, heroes and patriotism in contemporary Poland

I am currently teaching Polish language and culture at all levels as well as serving as the Undergraduate Program Advisor for Polish and the summer travel to Poland Program Coordinator. From 2001-2010, I served as a sessional Instructor of Polish language in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba. Since 2010, I have been an Instructor of Polish language and culture in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba.

• MA (History), University of Winnipeg, 2009

Research interests

• Immigration and ethnicity in Canada
• Poles in Manitoba
• Oral history

Research affiliations/groups

• Central and East European Studies Program, University of Manitoba (since 2009)
• Member of the J.B. Rudnyckyj Lecture Advisory Committee (since 2007)
• Canadian Association of Slavists (since 2007)
• Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America (since 2015)
• Polish American Historical Association (since 2019)

• “Poles in Manitoba” entry in Encyclopedia of Manitoba, managing editor Ingeborg Boyens. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2007.
• “Reinventing the Polish Community in Manitoba After the 1980s”, The Polish Review vol. 62 (2017): 81- 92.
• “‘The stories my father told me’: using interviews in teaching Polish history in North America”, Studia Historica Gedanensia Vol.10 (2019): 23-31.
• Michalina Petelska, and Blackmore Magdalena “Museums of Migration: Migrants’ Identity and Implementing the Museum’s Mission Statement – Case Studies from Poland and Canada” in Museums and Identities. Planning an Extended Museum. Gdansk, 2019. 

Book review

• Spory wokol imigracji: polscy i niemieccy imigranci w Winnipeg. [Disputes on Immigration: Polish and German Immigrants in Winnipeg] by Lukasz Albanski in Polish American Studies Vol. 73 No.2 (2016).

• 2019, 2012 - Heritage Canadian Government Grant, Culture, Heritage and Tourism 
• 2014 - Outstanding Achievement Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba
• 2013 - Outreach Award, University of Manitoba
• 2013 - Merit Award for Service, University of Manitoba
• 2010 - The Faculty of Arts Endowment Fund, University of Manitoba

• Committee member, Polish Studies Endowment Fund, University of Manitoba
• Board member, Ogniwo Polish Museum