Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 5215, Global Education Center
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-5125

Office: (919) 962-0355, 3109 Global Education Center
Fax: (919) 962-2494
E-mail: jmolich@email.unc.edu
Curriculum Vitae (.pdf, 5 pages, 134 KB)

Dr. Jacqueline M. 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 (RUES), administers the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships awarded through the U.S. Department of Education, and coordinates community and campus outreach activities. She is the Center’s point of contact with the Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) and the Fulbright Russian International Education Administrators (RIEA) Program.

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). Additionally, her writing has appeared in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, The Encyclopedia of Russian History, Russian History, Journal of MultiMedia History, and Slavonica. She is currently completing an article entitled, “Harry and the Other Europe: Representations of the Slavic World and the Imagination of J.K. Rowling” (forthcoming).

Previously, she was Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of History. Until 2004 she was a Director for Diba Industries, now part of the multinational Halma Technology Group (LSE: HLMA). She also worked as a Consultant to the SAS Institute Educational Technologies Division and as an Instructor in the History Department at Cary Academy.

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Lafayette College and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of History.

Dr. Olich serves on the County of Durham Women’s Commission and the Duke School Academic Program and Curriculum Committee. Recently, she was selected to take part in BRIDGES, an intensive professional development program for women in higher education.

At UNC, she presently teaches graduate courses and participates in various working groups and seminars. She can be reached at the Center or by email at jmolich@email.unc.edu.