Academic Appointments
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Senior Lecturer, History
Administrative Appointments
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Faculty Advisory Board Member, HANDA Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
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Faculty Coordinator, Public History/Public Service Track, Department of History, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
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Faculty Fellow, HANDA Center for Human Rights & International Justice, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
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Faculty Steering Committee Member, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
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Faculty Steering Committee Member, Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
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Faculty Fellow, Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford University (2015 - 2016)
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Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policies, Stanford University (2013 - 2016)
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Acting Director, Forum on Contemporary Europe, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University (2007 - 2008)
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Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (2005 - 2005)
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Adjunct Professor, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School (2002 - 2002)
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Affiliated faculty of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
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Affiliated faculty of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
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Affiliated faculty of the Europe Center, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
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Affiliated faculty of the Program on Human Rights, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
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Affiliated faculty of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
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Resource faculty of the Program in Feminist Studies, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
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Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
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Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford University Overseas Studies Program (2000 - 2000)
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Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Council on Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Joint Committee (1997 - 1998)
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (1996 - 1997)
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Assistant Professor of Modern East European History, University of North Carolina (1995 - 2000)
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MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Center for International Security and Arms Control (1994 - 1995)
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American Fellowship, American Association of University Women (1993 - 1994)
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Dissertation Fellowship, American Council on Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Joint Committee (1992 - 1993)
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Graduate Fellowship, Humanities Center, Stanford University (1991 - 1992)
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Foreign Language and Area Study Fellowship, Jagiellonian University (1989 - 1989)
Honors & Awards
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Domestic Scholarship, Kosciuszko Foundation (1993-1994)
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Junior Faculty Development Award, University of North Carolina (1999)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Advisory Committee Member, Freedom from Slavery (2015 - Present)
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Steering Committee Member, No Traffick Ahead (2014 - Present)
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Editor of yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeaster European Women's and Gender History, Aspasia (2009 - Present)
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Team Leader for course "Human Trafficking and Human Rights", Faculty College, Stanford University (2012 - 2013)
Program Affiliations
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Center for Human Rights and International Justice
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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Program in International Relations
Professional Education
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Ph.D., Stanford University, East European and Russian History (1995)
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M.A., Stanford University, East European and Russian History (1990)
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B.A., Harvard University, Russian and Soviet Studies (1985)
2024-25 Courses
- Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part I
FEMGEN 6W, HISTORY 6W, HUMRTS 6W (Win) - Doing Public History
CSRE 201L, HISTORY 200L (Spr) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
CSRE 5C (Win) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
FEMGEN 105C (Win) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
FEMGEN 5C (Win) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
HISTORY 105C (Win) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
HISTORY 5C (Win) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
HUMRTS 112, INTNLREL 105C (Win) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
INTNLREL 5C (Win) -
Independent Studies (7)
- Curricular Practical Training
HISTORY 299F (Aut, Win, Spr) - Graduate Directed Reading
HISTORY 399W (Aut, Win, Spr) - Graduate Research
HISTORY 499X (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research I
HISTORY 299A (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research II
HISTORY 299B (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Research III
HISTORY 299C (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing
HISTORY 299S (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- East European Women and War
HISTORY 227, HISTORY 327 (Spr) - Fascism & World War II in Italy
OSPFLOR 73 (Aut) - PRACTICAL TRAINING
INTNLREL 189 (Win, Sum) - The 'Woman Question' in Modern Russia
HISTORY 221B, HISTORY 321B (Spr) - The Holocaust: Insights from New Research
HISTORY 226D, HISTORY 326D, JEWISHST 226E, JEWISHST 326D (Win)
2022-23 Courses
- Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part I
FEMGEN 6W, HISTORY 6W, HUMRTS 6W (Aut) - Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part II
FEMGEN 7W, HISTORY 7W, HUMRTS 7W (Win) - Doing Public History
CSRE 201L, HISTORY 200L (Spr) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
CSRE 105C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
CSRE 5C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
FEMGEN 105C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
FEMGEN 5C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
HISTORY 105C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
HISTORY 3J (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
HISTORY 5C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
HUMRTS 112, INTNLREL 105C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
INTNLREL 5C (Aut) - PRACTICAL TRAINING
INTNLREL 189 (Sum) - The Holocaust: Insights from New Research
CSRE 226D, CSRE 326D, HISTORY 226D, HISTORY 326D, JEWISHST 226E, JEWISHST 326D (Win)
2021-22 Courses
- Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part I
FEMGEN 6W, HISTORY 6W, HUMRTS 6W (Aut) - Community-Engaged Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking - Part II
FEMGEN 7W, HISTORY 7W, HUMRTS 7W (Win) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
CSRE 105C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
CSRE 5C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
FEMGEN 105C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
FEMGEN 5C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
HISTORY 105C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
HISTORY 3J (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
HISTORY 5C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
HUMRTS 112, INTNLREL 105C (Aut) - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives
INTNLREL 5C (Aut) - The 'Woman Question' in Modern Russia
FEMGEN 221B, HISTORY 221B, HISTORY 321B (Win) - The Holocaust: Insights from New Research
CSRE 226D, CSRE 326D, HISTORY 226D, HISTORY 326D (Win)
- East European Women and War
All Publications
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If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2019; 124 (4): 1546–47
View details for DOI 10.1093/ahr/rhz1011
View details for Web of Science ID 000501756100137
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Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe: Gender and Migration between Moldova and Istanbul (Book Review)
SLAVIC REVIEW
2018; 77 (2): 513–15
View details for DOI 10.1017/slr.2018.158
View details for Web of Science ID 000438522400034
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Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War (Book Review)
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY
2018; 64 (1): 162–63
View details for DOI 10.1111/ajph.12445
View details for Web of Science ID 000428366600027
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The Devil's Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF WOMENS HISTORY
2017; 29 (4): 196–203
View details for Web of Science ID 000418010800016
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Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960 (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF WOMENS HISTORY
2017; 29 (4): 196–203
View details for Web of Science ID 000418010800014
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Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF WOMENS HISTORY
2017; 29 (4): 196–203
View details for Web of Science ID 000418010800015
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My Sister's Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile and Stalin's Siberia (Book Review)
CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS
2017; 59 (1-2): 182–84
View details for DOI 10.1080/00085006.2017.1297514
View details for Web of Science ID 000401434800026
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Women in the Crosshairs: Violence Against Women during the Second World War
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY
2016; 62 (4): 514-528
View details for DOI 10.1111/ajph.12301
View details for Web of Science ID 000392707500003
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Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY
2014; 47 (4): 1111-?
View details for DOI 10.1093/jsh/shu010
View details for Web of Science ID 000337066100020
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Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front (Book Review)
SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW
2012; 90 (3): 571-573
View details for Web of Science ID 000307024400049
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Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite (Book Review)
BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY
2012; 35 (3): 522-523
View details for Web of Science ID 000313841900007
- Combating the Trafficking of Women in Eastern Europe Program on Human Rights Working Paper 2012
- Preface Maps of Memory: Trauma, Identity and Exile in Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States edited by Davoliute, V., Balkelis, T. Institute of Lithuaninan Literature and Folklore. 2012
- Anti-Trafficking Efforts and the Protection of Human Rights in Eastern Europe Austrian Review of International and European Law 2011; 16
- Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile Palgrave Macmillan. 2011
- The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom (Review) Sarmatian Review 2011; 31 (1)
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Gulag Voices Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile Introduction
GULAG VOICES: ORAL HISTORIES OF SOVIET INCARCERATION AND EXILE
2011: 1-+
View details for Web of Science ID 000291473900002
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The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements (Book Review)
EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY
2011; 41 (1): 176-178
View details for DOI 10.1177/02656914110410010641
View details for Web of Science ID 000287129300046
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A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries (Book Review)
GENDER AND HISTORY
2009; 21 (1): 228–29
View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01542_19.x
View details for Web of Science ID 000211077900040
- A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe,19th and 20th Centuries Gender & History 2009; 21 (1): 228-229
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They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (Book Review)
BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY
2008; 31 (4): 756-758
View details for Web of Science ID 000263249400014
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Sketches from a secret war: A Polish artist's mission to liberate Soviet Ukraine (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
2008; 80 (2): 459-460
View details for Web of Science ID 000257447300049
- Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland,1939-1947 Journal of Cold War Studies 2007; 9 (3): 201-203
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Civil war in Poland, 1942-1948. (Book Review)
SLAVIC REVIEW
2006; 65 (1): 167-168
View details for Web of Science ID 000236232200018
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Victims of Stalin and Hitler: The exodus of poles and balts to Britain. (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2006; 111 (1): 252-252
View details for Web of Science ID 000235511000164
- The Nation's Pain and Women's Shame: Polish Women and Wartime Violence Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe edited by Wingfield, N., Bucur, M. Indiana University Press. 2006
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A biography of no place: From ethnic borderland to soviet heartland (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2005; 110 (2): 589-590
View details for Web of Science ID 000228909100178
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Celebrating women: Gender, festival culture, and Bolshevik ideology, 1910-1939. (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
2005; 77 (1): 260-262
View details for Web of Science ID 000226862500060
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Gender and antisemitism in wartime Soviet exile
Conference on Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland
CORNELL UNIV PRESS. 2005: 210–232
View details for Web of Science ID 000234111700011
- Women in the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization Polish Review 2004; XLIX (3): 999-1001
- 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 2001; 10 (3): 463-480
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Deportation and exile: Poles in the Soviet-Union, 1939-48 - Sword,K (Book Review)
SLAVIC REVIEW
1996; 55 (2): 473-474
View details for Web of Science ID A1996VZ50000046