Eva Plach

I am a historian of Poland. My research interests include the history of Polish Jews between the two world wars, the history of the Polish animal welfare movement, and the history of postwar humanitarian aid.

I am willing to supervise graduate students in Polish history and the history of the Holocaust.

• Relief on the Hoof: The Seagoing Cowboys, the Heifer Project, and UNRRA in Poland (Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2025)
• "Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia", Guest Editor, Special Issue of Canadian Slavonic Papers LX: 3-4 (Dec. 2018).
• “Dogs and Dog Breeding in Interwar Poland”, Canadian Slavonic Papers LX: 3-4 (Dec. 2018), 471-496.
• “Holocaust Education: Reflections from the Classroom”, in Best Practices in Holocaust Education (Toronto: Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust Studies, 2018)
• “Rabies in Interwar Poland,” Blog post contributed to "Sniffing the Past: Dogs and History,” May 2016.
• “Ritual Slaughter and Animal Welfare in Interwar Poland,” East European Jewish Affairs 45: 1 (April 2015): 1-25.
• The Clash of Moral Nations: Cultural Politics in Pilsudski's Poland, 1926-1935 (Ohio University Press, Polish and Polish-American Studies Series, 2006; rpt. and pbk. 2014).
• "Mad Dogs and Animal Protectionists: Rabies in Interwar Poland," Canadian Slavonic Papers LV: 3-4 (Sept.-Dec. 2013): 391-416.
• "The Animal Welfare Movement in Interwar Poland," The Polish Review 57: 2 (June 2012): 21-43.
• "Introducing Miss Judaea 1929: The Politics of Beauty, Race and Zionism in Inter-War Poland," Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 20, 2008, pp. 368-391.
• "Feminism and Nationalism on the Pages of Ewa: Tygodnik, 1928-1933," Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 18, 2005, pp. 241-262.
• "'Botticelli Woman': Rachel Singer and the Jewish Theme in Stanislaw Wyspianski's The Wedding (1901)," The Polish Review XLI: 3 (Fall 1996): 309-327.

I teach courses about the history of east and west Europe in the 20th c., the history of the Holocaust, and the history of totalitarianism. I also teach courses about the relationship between human and non-human animals.