Krzysztof Odyniec
Adjunct Professor at Berkeley City College
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Biography
Krzysztof Odyniec was born in Poland and has lived in the United States since childhood. He studied history at UC Berkeley (BA, 2001; PhD, 2017) and pedagogy at Harvard (EdM, 2005). His dissertation was on the first resident ambassador from Poland-Lithuania to the court of Charles V in Spain; part of it appears as a chapter in Historians Without Borders (Knoblauch and Abrams, eds., from Routledge, 2019). Krzysztof has taught at UC Berkeley as a graduate student and postdoc, at two community colleges as an adjunct professor, and at a number of secondary schools as either a history or an English teacher. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Mali (2002-2004) specializing in Natural Resource Management, where he also taught at a village school.
Education
- PhD University of California, Berkeley (2011 — 2017)
- Master's degree University of California, Berkeley (2011 — 2013)
- Master in Education (Ed.M) Harvard University Graduate School of Education (2005 — 2006)
- Bachelor's degree University of California, Berkeley (1996 — 2001)
Research Interests
Medieval & Early Modern Europe; Spain and the Spanish Empire; Mediterranean World; Atlantic Empires; Latin America; political, cultural, and material history; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; The Balkans and Mediterranean; Cultural Exchange in Borderlands and Frontiers; Ottoman and New World Alterity; Comparative History of Slavery in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian Ocean Worlds; Cartography; Travel; Pilgrimage; Crusades;
Recent Teaching and Academic Positions
- 2018- Social Studies Teacher, John Swett High School, Crockett, California
- 2017-2019 Visiting Scholar / Berkeley Connect Fellow, UC Berkeley
- 2018-2019 Adjunct Professor, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, California
- 2017-2018 Adjunct Professor, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, California
- 2016-2017 Senior Graduate Assistant to Berkeley Connect, UC Berkeley
- 2015 Graduate Student Instructor (Instructor of Record), UC Berkeley
- 2012-2016 Graduate Student Instructor and Graduate Student Reader, UC Berkeley
- 2009-2011 EL English Teacher, East Anchorage High School, Anchorage, Alaska
- 2007-2009 English, Math, History Teacher, Beacon High School, Watertown, Massachusetts
- 2006-2007 English Teacher, El Alsson British & American School, Giza, Cairo, Egypt
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