Academic Appointments


  • Senior Lecturer, History

Administrative Appointments


  • Faculty Advisory Board Member, HANDA Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
  • Faculty Coordinator, Public History/Public Service Track, Department of History, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
  • Faculty Fellow, HANDA Center for Human Rights & International Justice, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
  • Faculty Steering Committee Member, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
  • Faculty Steering Committee Member, Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
  • Faculty Fellow, Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford University (2015 - 2016)
  • Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policies, Stanford University (2013 - 2016)
  • Acting Director, Forum on Contemporary Europe, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University (2007 - 2008)
  • Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (2005 - 2005)
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School (2002 - 2002)
  • Affiliated faculty of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
  • Affiliated faculty of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
  • Affiliated faculty of the Europe Center, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
  • Affiliated faculty of the Program on Human Rights, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
  • Affiliated faculty of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
  • Resource faculty of the Program in Feminist Studies, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
  • Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Stanford University (2001 - Present)
  • Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford University Overseas Studies Program (2000 - 2000)
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Council on Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Joint Committee (1997 - 1998)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (1996 - 1997)
  • Assistant Professor of Modern East European History, University of North Carolina (1995 - 2000)
  • MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Center for International Security and Arms Control (1994 - 1995)
  • American Fellowship, American Association of University Women (1993 - 1994)
  • Dissertation Fellowship, American Council on Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Joint Committee (1992 - 1993)
  • Graduate Fellowship, Humanities Center, Stanford University (1991 - 1992)
  • Foreign Language and Area Study Fellowship, Jagiellonian University (1989 - 1989)

Honors & Awards


  • Domestic Scholarship, Kosciuszko Foundation (1993-1994)
  • Junior Faculty Development Award, University of North Carolina (1999)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations


  • Advisory Committee Member, Freedom from Slavery (2015 - Present)
  • Steering Committee Member, No Traffick Ahead (2014 - Present)
  • Editor of yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeaster European Women's and Gender History, Aspasia (2009 - Present)
  • Team Leader for course "Human Trafficking and Human Rights", Faculty College, Stanford University (2012 - 2013)

Program Affiliations


  • Center for Human Rights and International Justice
  • Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Program in International Relations

Professional Education


  • Ph.D., Stanford University, East European and Russian History (1995)
  • M.A., Stanford University, East European and Russian History (1990)
  • B.A., Harvard University, Russian and Soviet Studies (1985)

2024-25 Courses


Stanford Advisees


All Publications


  • If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2019; 124 (4): 1546–47
  • Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe: Gender and Migration between Moldova and Istanbul (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2018; 77 (2): 513–15
  • Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War (Book Review) AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2018; 64 (1): 162–63

    View details for DOI 10.1111/ajph.12445

    View details for Web of Science ID 000428366600027

  • Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI (Book Review) JOURNAL OF WOMENS HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2017; 29 (4): 196–203
  • The Devil's Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland (Book Review) JOURNAL OF WOMENS HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2017; 29 (4): 196–203
  • Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960 (Book Review) JOURNAL OF WOMENS HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2017; 29 (4): 196–203
  • My Sister's Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile and Stalin's Siberia (Book Review) CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2017; 59 (1-2): 182–84
  • Women in the Crosshairs: Violence Against Women during the Second World War AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY Jolluck, K. R. 2016; 62 (4): 514-528

    View details for DOI 10.1111/ajph.12301

    View details for Web of Science ID 000392707500003

  • Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society (Book Review) JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2014; 47 (4): 1111-?

    View details for DOI 10.1093/jsh/shu010

    View details for Web of Science ID 000337066100020

  • Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front (Book Review) SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2012; 90 (3): 571-573
  • Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simaite (Book Review) BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2012; 35 (3): 522-523
  • Combating the Trafficking of Women in Eastern Europe Program on Human Rights Working Paper Jolluck, K. R. 2012
  • Preface Maps of Memory: Trauma, Identity and Exile in Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States Jolluck, K. R. 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 Jolluck, K. R. 2011; 16
  • Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile Jolluck, K. R., Gheith, J. M. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011
  • The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom (Review) Sarmatian Review Jolluck, K. R. 2011; 31 (1)
  • Gulag Voices Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile Introduction GULAG VOICES: ORAL HISTORIES OF SOVIET INCARCERATION AND EXILE Gheith, J. M., Jolluck, K. R., Gheith, J., Jolluck, K. 2011: 1-+
  • The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements (Book Review) EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2011; 41 (1): 176-178
  • A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries (Book Review) GENDER AND HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2009; 21 (1): 228–29
  • A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe,19th and 20th Centuries Gender & History Jolluck, K. R. 2009; 21 (1): 228-229
  • They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (Book Review) BIOGRAPHY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY QUARTERLY Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2008; 31 (4): 756-758
  • Sketches from a secret war: A Polish artist's mission to liberate Soviet Ukraine (Book Review) JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2008; 80 (2): 459-460
  • Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland,1939-1947 Journal of Cold War Studies Jolluck, K. R. 2007; 9 (3): 201-203
  • Civil war in Poland, 1942-1948. (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2006; 65 (1): 167-168
  • Victims of Stalin and Hitler: The exodus of poles and balts to Britain. (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2006; 111 (1): 252-252
  • The Nation's Pain and Women's Shame: Polish Women and Wartime Violence Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe Jolluck, K. R. edited by Wingfield, N., Bucur, M. Indiana University Press. 2006
  • A biography of no place: From ethnic borderland to soviet heartland (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R., BROWN, K. 2005; 110 (2): 589-590
  • Celebrating women: Gender, festival culture, and Bolshevik ideology, 1910-1939. (Book Review) JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 2005; 77 (1): 260-262
  • Gender and antisemitism in wartime Soviet exile Conference on Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland Jolluck, K. R. CORNELL UNIV PRESS. 2005: 210–232
  • Women in the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization Polish Review Jolluck, K. R. 2004; XLIX (3): 999-1001
  • Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union during World War II Jolluck, K. R. 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 Jolluck, K. R. 2001; 10 (3): 463-480
  • Deportation and exile: Poles in the Soviet-Union, 1939-48 - Sword,K (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Jolluck, K. R. 1996; 55 (2): 473-474