Maciej Siekierski
Curator

Expertise: Poland and Eastern Europe

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Maciej Siekierski is curator of the East European Collection at the Hoover Institution.

A specialist on Poland and Eastern Europe, he has been a member of the staff since 1984, with principal responsibility for the acquisition of East European archival materials.

He was named assistant curator of the Soviet and East European Collection in 1986, deputy curator in 1990, and curator of the East European Collection in 1992.

From 1991–93, Siekierski directed Hoover Institution's Warsaw Office, overseeing the collection and shipment to Stanford of tons of publications and documents released by the revolutions and transition to democracy taking place in Eastern Europe.

Between 1995 and 2001, Siekierski was responsible for both, East and West European acquisitions, as Curator of the European Collection.

He is the compiler of Polish Independent Publications: Guide to the Collection in the Hoover Institution Archives (Hoover Institution Press, 1999). He edited Wiktor Sukiennicki's two-volume East Central Europe during World War I: From Foreign Domination to National Independence (East European Monographs, 1984). Siekierski's doctoral dissertation, Landed Wealth in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: The Economic Affairs of Prince Nicholas Christopher Radziwill, was published by the Polish Academy of Science in Acta Baltico-Slavica, vols. 20–21, 1992–93. Siekierski's most recent book is I Saw the Angel of Death : Experiences of Polish Jews Deported to the USSR during World War II (Warsaw, 2006).

Siekierski is a member of the American Historical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.

He was the recipient of fellowships from the International Research and Exchanges Board and the Kosciuszko Foundation.

In June 2001, Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek honored Siekierski with the Laur Award for his work on behalf of the preservation of Polish historical records.

Siekierski received a B.A. degree in history and Russian with great distinction from San Jose State College in 1970. He received an M.A. in history in 1971, candidate in philosophy in 1975, and a Ph.D. in history in 1984, all from the University of California, Berkeley. He holds an MLS degree from San Jose State University.