Stola teaches modern history and studies 20th-century human migrations, the Holocaust, Polish-Jewish relations, and the history of postwar Poland's communist regime. From 2014 to 2019 he was director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. He is the author or co-author of seven books and over one hundred scholarly papers.^[1]

Stola is a two-time recipient of the Polityka magazine award, and a recipient of the award of the Edward Raczyński Polish Foundation in London, England.^[1][2][3][4]

• Kraj bez wyjścia? Migracje z Polski 1949-1989 (A Country with No Way Out? Migrations from Poland, 1949–1989), Warsaw, Institute of National Remembrance, 2010. Polityka Award for Best Historical Book of 2010.
• Historia (History). Textbook for secondary-school classes 2 (with J. Czubaty) and 3, Warsaw, 2009
• Co-author, Od Piłsudskiego do Wałęsy. Studia z dziejów Polski w XX wieku (From Piłsudski to Wałęsa: Studies in 20th-Century Polish History), Warsaw, 2008
• Złote lata PZPR: finanse partii w dekadzie Gierka (Golden Years of the Polish People's Republic: The Party's Finances during Gierek's Decade), Warsaw, 2008
• Co-author, PRL. Trwanie i zmiana (The Polish People's Republic: Endurance and Change), Warsaw, 2003
• Co-author, Patterns of Migration in Central Europe, New York, 2001
• Kampania antysyjonistyczna w Polsce 1967-1968 (The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland, 1967–1968), Warsaw, 2000
• Nadzieja i zagłada. Ignacy Schwarzbart – żydowski przedstawiciel w Radzie Narodowej RP, 1940-1945 (Hope and Destruction: Ignacy Schwarzbart, Jewish Representative in the Polish National Council, 1940–1945), Warsaw, 1995

• List of Poles