Alana Holland

Holland teaches courses on Russian and East European history, modern Europe, and the history of the Holocaust. She is writing a book on trials of Holocaust perpetrators in postwar communist courts in Eastern Europe and related cultural and artistic representations.

Alana Holland

Alana Holland

Assistant Professor of History

Education

  • Ph.D. The University of Kansas, 2020    
  • M.A. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015
  • B.A. Arkansas State University, 2012

Research

  • 20th Century Eastern Europe/Soviet Union
  • Legal and cultural history of modern Europe
  • Holocaust and genocide studies

Teaching

  • History of Russia and Eastern Europe
  • Modern Europe
  • Holocaust and antisemitism
  • Historical memory and East European borderlands

Publications

Manuscripts in Preparation

  • The Art of Retribution: Holocaust Memory and Justice in Postwar Poland and the Soviet Union, 1944-69 (book)

  • “Treason in the Long Cold War: The Memel Trial against Nazi Conspirators in Interwar Lithuania, 1934-37” (article)

Article

  • "Soviet Holocaust Retribution in Lithuania, 1944-64,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 46, no. 1 (February 2019): 3-29

Future Project

  • Internal Displacement, International Law, and Postwar Eastern Europe, 1944-55