Leonard A. Polakiewicz, Horace T. Morse Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, has published on Chekhov, Dostoevsky, and Czesław Miłosz and is the author of three Polish language textbooks as well as the principal author of Polish Language Learning Framework (Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences). He is a grantee of Fulbright-Hays from the Department of Education and USIA which enabled him to establish and direct Academic Linkages between University of Minnesota and universities in Russia and Poland. He taught Russian and Polish language and literature at U of M for forty-five years. He has received many teaching and service awards in his field, including but not limited to the National Teacher of the Year from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages and the Cavalier’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.