Visiting Assistant Professor, History978.542.5059Visiting Lecturer, HistoryAssistant Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies978.542.5059
Regina Kazyulina is the assistant director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and a visiting assistant professor of history. She teaches in the Graduate Certificate Program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Her research interests include everyday life under German occupation, the “Holocaust by Bullets,” and the gendered lived experiences of Soviet civilians.
Women Under Suspicion: Fraternization, Espionage, and Punishment in the Soviet Union During World War Two (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025).
“In Their Words: Soviet Women in the Ranks of Soviet Intelligence During World War Two” in The Eastern Front: War, Myth, and Memory, eds. Yan Mann and Olga Kucherenko (Routledge, 2024).
“Women’s Antifascist Resistance on German-Occupied Territory Through the Lens of Soviet Leaflets, 1941-1945,” Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 56, 4 (2021): 1127-1146.
“Working with MA Educators to Implement the 2021 Massachusetts Genocide Education Act,” with Brad Austin, Lori Marenda, and Christopher Mauriello, 104th Annual National Council for the Social Studies Conference, November 22-24, 2024.
“The Gymnasium at Bergen-Belsen and the Role of Teachers in the Preservation of Memory,” 55th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 17-19, 2023.
“World War Two and the Holocaust in Ukraine,” Northeastern University, October 17, 2023.
“The Experiences of Women in the Soviet Union During World War II,” Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, and North Shore Community College, April 14, 2022.
“In Their Own Words: Soviet Women and Intelligence on German-Occupied Territory During World War Two,” Rethinking War: A Virtual Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Pittsburgh, March 18-19, 2022.
“In Their Own Words: Soviet Women and Intelligence during World War Two,” North American Society for Intelligence History, November 9, 2021.
“The Soviet Collapse and Post-Soviet Migrations,” Bates College, May 17, 2021.
“Exploiting Gender Myopias During World War Two: Soviet Women and Intelligence Work on German-Occupied Territory,” 51st Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies, November 23-26, 2019.
“Gender, Sexuality, and Soviet Intelligence Behind the Eastern Front,” First Inaugural Conference of the North American Society for Intelligence History, International Spy Museum, Washington DC, October 19-20, 2019
“Gendered Expectations and Female Resistance Through the Lens of Soviet Leaflets,” Second World War Research Group Annual Conference, King’s College, UK London, June 14-15, 2018.
“‘Horizontal Collaboration,’ Security, and Policing of Intimate Relations in Soviet Ukraine During World War Two,” 49th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies, November 9-12, 2017.
“The Contingency of Postwar Justice in the Crimean Countryside,” Centre français de recherché en sciences sociales (CEFRES), Prague, Czech Republic, October 12-14, 2017.
“Caught Between: The Hunt for Women Spies Within the Soviet Partisan Movement,” Second World War Research Group Annual Conference, King’s College, London, UK, June 22-23, 2017.
"Between Accommodation and Collaboration: Soviet Views of Local Women’s Actions During the German Occupation,” The MacMillan Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence, Yale University, March 27, 2017.
“Occupation, the Holocaust, and Postwar Retribution in the Crimean Countryside, 1941-1946,” 25th Annual World History Association Conference, University of Ghent, Belgium, July 2-5, 2016.
“Female Collaborators Through the Lens of Soviet War Crimes Trial Records,” 38th Annual Susman Graduate Student Conference, Rutgers University, April 8, 2016.
“Gender and Collaboration in Ukraine during World War Two,” Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, April 1, 2016.
“Local Women’s Involvement in the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine,” New England Regional World History Association Fall Symposium, Bryant University, October 10, 2015.