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Katherine Jolluck
Senior Lecturer in History, Europe Center Research Affiliate at the Freeman Spogli Institute

Biography

Katherine Jolluck is a senior lecturer in East European History, with interests in twentieth century Eastern Europe, the Second World War, women and war, women in communist cultures and human trafficking.  She has been at Stanford since 2001.  She previously taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the Naval Post-Graduate School. She is the author of Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union during WWII (2002), as well as several articles.  She is also a member of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford and a member of the Feminist Studies Resource Faculty and the Affiliated Faculty of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

She was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria in 2005.  She has also been a postdoctoral fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies for the Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Eastern Europe in 1997-98; a postdoctoral research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace in 1996 and 1997; a MacArthur Foundation fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control in 1993-94; recipient of the American Fellowship at the American Association of University Women in 1993-94; recipient of the Domestic Scholarship from the Kosciuszko Foundation in 1993-94; and a graduate fellow at the Humanities Center in 1991-92.

Key Works

• “The Nation's Pain and Women's Shame: Polish Women and Wartime Violence,” in Gender and War in Eastern Europe, ed. Nancy Wingfield and Maria Bucur.  Indiana University Press, 2006.
• "Gender and Antisemitism in Wartime Soviet Exile," in Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland, ed. Robert Blobaum.  Cornell University Press, 2005.
• Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union during World War II.  University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.
• "'You Can't Even Call them Women': Poles and 'Others' in Soviet Exile during World War II," Contemporary European History Vol. 10, no. 3 (November 2001): 463-80.
• "Albania Adrift on Post-Communist Promises," San Jose Mercury News (26 Nov. 2000).

Prof. Jolluck in the News

• Book review of Exile and Identity
  American Historical Review, October, 2003
• Book examines little-known fate of Polish women exiled to Soviet Union
  Stanford Report, February 5, 2003
• A Conference on Polish Women
  Gotham Gazette, December, 2002
• Visitors share experiences at Stanford
  Stanford Daily, November 1, 2002