Dr. Jacqueline M. Olich

Associate Director and FLAS Coordinator


Dr. Jacqueline Olich is the Associate Director of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches and advises in the Curriculum in Russian and East European Studies, administers the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships awarded through the U.S. Department of Education, and coordinates community and campus outreach activities. Previously, she was Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of History. From 1993-2004 she was a Director for Diba Industries, now part of the multinational Halma Technology Group (LSE: HLMA). Dr. Olich researches, writes and teaches on the comparative history of childhood and children’s culture. She is the author of Competing Ideologies and Children's Literature in Russia, 1918-1935 (2009). Her writing has appeared in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, The Encyclopedia of Russian History, Russian History, and Slavonica. Dr. Olich was recently named to the County of Durham Women’s Commission.

Link to Dr. Olich's newly published book, "Competing Ideologies and Children's Literature in Russia, 1918-1935" (VDM Verlag, 2009).

She can be reached at the Center by phone at (919) 962-0355, or by email at jmolich@email.unc.edu.

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