Feliks Gross

Feliks Gross was a Polish-American sociologist.
Before World War II, he became a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. During the war, he escaped to USA, where he would hold many positions in academia, including a professorship at Graduate Centre and Brooklyn College in City University of New York and at the University of Wyoming.
Gross wrote more than 20 books and uncounted articles published in many languages.
The Feliks Gross Endowment Award was established at CUNY in his memory. This award is given annually to one to two assistant professors in recognition of outstanding research in the humanities or sciences.

Selected works

Citizenship and Ethnicity 1999Ethnics in a Borderland 1978Violence in Politics 1972Federacje i konfederacje europejskie: rodowód i wizje 1994Foreign policy analysis 1954Ideologies, Goals, and Values 1985Proletariat i kultura: warunki społeczne i gospodarcze kultury proletariatu 1938The Civic and the Tribal State 1998The Revolutionary Party 1974The seizure of political power in a century of revolutions 1958Tolerancja i pluralizm 1992Wartości, nauka i świadectwa epoki 2002Wspomnienie o Adamie Ciołkoszu 1987Koczownictwo 1936