Jolluck, Katherine R.

PERSONAL:

Children: (with Norman Naimark) a son. Education: Harvard University, B.A.; Stanford University, M.A., 1990, Ph.D., 1995.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of History, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 200, Stanford CA 94305-2024. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, affiliated with Curriculum in Women's Studies, 1994-95, assistant professor of history, 1997; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, acting assistant professor, 2000-01, senior lecturer in history, 2003—; has also taught at the Naval Post-Graduate School.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Humanities Center graduate fellowship, Stanford University, 1991-92; Kosciuszko Foundation Domestic Scholarship, 1993-94; American Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 1993-1994; MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1994-95; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1996-97; American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Eastern Europe Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1997-98; Junior Faculty Development Award, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, 1999; Institute for Human Sciences Visiting Fellowship, 2005.

WRITINGS:

Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union during World War II, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 2002.

Contributor to books, including Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland, edited by Robert Blobaum, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 2005. Contributor to academic journals and popular periodicals, including Contemporary European History, San Jose Mercury News, American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, and Slavic Review.

SIDELIGHTS:

Katherine R. Jolluck is a historian who specializes in areas such as modern Eastern Europe and women in war. In her debut book, Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union during World War II, Jolluck relies largely on personal testimonies to provide a look at the deprivations suffered by the thousands of Polish women who were exiled to the Soviet Far North, Siberia, and Central Asia as part of an early 1940-41 agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union to split up Poland. Writing in the Library Journal, Harry Willems praised the author for "showing the tensions that resulted when early Polish feminists encountered the Soviet Union's forcible removal of the gender gap." Other critics lauded Jolluck for providing a totally new look at the Polish experience during World War II. "Jolluck's book is pathbreaking not only for presenting an engaging analysis of the experiences of Polish female deportees in the Soviet Union but also for pioneering a more detailed investigation of the gender dimensions of Polish national identity," asserted Nameeta Mathur in History: Review of New Books. Helena Goscilo, writing in the Journal of Modern History, commented that the author "breaks new ground on three fronts: it is the first gender-driven Anglophone examination of Polish deportees' experience under the Soviets during World War II; it draws on the exiles' subsequent firsthand reports; and its analysis takes into account not only gender but also ethnicity, education, and social background."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, October, 2003, Irena Grudzinska-Gross, review of Exile and Identity: Polish Women in the Soviet Union during World War II, pp. 1247-1248.

Choice, April, 2003, G.E. Snow, review of Exile and Identity, p. 1420.

History: Review of New Books, winter, 2003, Nameeta Mathur, review of Exile and Identity, p. 79.

Journal of Modern History, September, 2005, Helena Goscilo, review of Exile and Identity, p. 874.

Library Journal, September 15, 2002, Harry Willems, review of Exile and Identity, p. 75.

Russian Review, October, 2003, review of Exile and Identity, pp. 637-668.

Slavic Review, spring, 2004, Piotr Wrobel, review of Exile and Identity, pp. 160-161.

Slavonic and East European Review, October, 2003, K. Turton, review of Exile and Identity, pp. 764-766.

ONLINE

Stanford University, Department of History Web site,http://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/ (April 18, 2007), faculty profile of Katherine R. Jolluck.