Sheftel, Anna

Anna Sheftel

Chercheure régulière dans l’axe de recherche : Démocratie et pluralisme (Axe III)
Professeure à l’École des affaires publiques et communautaires de l’Université Concordia.

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anna.sheftel@concordia.ca

Spécialités

Immigration – Génocide – Histoire orale – Mouvements sociaux – Mémoire.

Formation académique

  • Ph.D en philosophie, Modern History, Université d’Oxford
  • M.Sc. en Forced Migration, Université d’Oxford
  • B.A. avec Honours en linguistique, Université Concordia
  • Membre du Advisory Search Committee, Provost and Vice-President, Academic (2025-2026)
  • Membre du Search Committee for Principal of Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability (2025)
  • Membre du Bargaining Team, CUFA (2025-2026)
  • Membre du Honorary Degree Committee, Board of Governors (2024-  )
  • Faculty Representative, Campus Climate Working Group, STRIVE Task Force, Office of the Provost (2024-2025)
  • Senator, University Senate (2024- )
  • Membre du Teaching Space Working Group, Strategic Enrollment Management Project, Office of  the Provost, (2024- )
  • Membre du  Spaces and Units Collaboration Working Group, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, (2024- )
  • Chair, Departmental Hiring Committee, School of Community and Public Affairs, (2023-2024)
  • Membre du Arts and Science Faculty Council Steering Committee, Concordia University, (2023- )
  • Membre du Search Committee for Principal of Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, (2022)
  • Chair, Departmental Hiring Committee (LTA hire), School of Community and Public Affairs, (2022)
  • Principal, School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University, (2021- )
  • Faculty Equity Advocate, Concordia University, (2021-2022)
  • Faculty representative to the Board of Governors, Saint Paul University, (2019-2021)
  • Membre de conseil d’établissement, Ecole Saint-Barthélemy, Montréal, (2022- )
  • Informal Consultation, War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo, (2021)
Financement

  • Co-chercheure. CRSH, Insight Grant. PI: Chris Hurl. Futureproofing higher education: Cross-national comparisons of management consultants in university restructuring. (2026-2031)
  • Co-chercheure. CRSH, Knowledge Synthesis Grant. PI: Devon Smither. Oral Histories and Artist Run Centres in Canada. (2026-2027)
  • Co-applicante. CRSH, Connections Grant. PI: Stacey Zembrzycki. Listening in the Age of Polycrisis. (2025-2026)
  • Chercheure principale. CRSH, Partnership Development Grant. Pathways of Solidarity: Migrants and Migrant Support Networks Across New York, New England and Montreal. (2025-2028)
  • Concordia Faculty of Arts and Sciences Explorations and New Initiatives Award, Di hintershter taykh: La terre se souvient. (2025-2026)
  • Aid to Research Related Events Program, Concordia University, Imagining the Possible: Care and Resistance in Challenging Times. (2024-2025)
  • Concordia Faculty of Arts and Sciences SSHRC Exchange Award, Conference travel grant for presentation at Oral History Association Annual Meeting. (2024-2025)
  • Subvention du CRSH, pour le projet  “The Agency of Holocaust Survivors from Commemorative Activism to Interactive Holograms.”, (2024-2025)
  • Chercheure principale, Subvention Savoir du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH), Projet Cemetery as Metaphor: Stories of Jewish Migration and Settlement, Intercultural Encounters and Mourning at Montreal’s Back River Memorial Gardens.”, (2023-2026)
  • Concordia Faculty of Arts and Sciences SSHRC Exchange Award, Conference travel grant for presentation at Oral History Association Annual Meeting (2023-2024)
  • Concordia Faculty of Arts and Sciences Explorations and New Initiatives Award, « Cemetery as Metaphor: Using Digital Mapping to Explore Montreal’s Back River Memorial Gardens.” (2023-2024)

Chapitres de livres

Naomi Frost and Anna Sheftel (2026). “Oral Histories of Forced Migration and Displacement,” in M. Marinari (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies (Oxford University Press), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852699.001.0001.

Anna Sheftel (2026). “The Interviewee’s Experience of Oral History,” in A. Freund, E. Jessee and A. Thompson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Oral History (Bloomsbury), 41-56.

Anna Sheftel (2025).,“Une histoire d’immigration et d’intégration racontée par les morts : une étude du cimetière juif Back River,” in R. M. Legault-Laberge, M.P. Robert and P.C. Noël (eds.), Cadavres, cimetières et sépultures : les enjeux historiques,

Articles scientifiques

Luke Moyer and Anna Sheftel (2026). “’…Even if They Didn’t All Go On to Great Material Success’: Neoliberalism, Resilience, and Holocaust Survivors.” The Journal of Holocaust Research, 1-17.

Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki (2026). “Oral History is Not Just Data: Amplifying Humanistic Practices in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” The Oral History Review 53:1, 4-26.

Anna Sheftel (2025). “’We Tried to Become Normal’: Social Class and Memory in Oral Histories with Montreal Holocaust Survivors.” Special issue of Memory Studies, entitled, “Memory at the Intersection of Mass Violence and Socio-Economic Inequality, co-edited by Anna Sheftel and Cyril Adonis. Memory Studies 18:6, 1640-1654.

Nancy Rebelo, Anna Sheftel, Stacey Zembrzycki with Eszter Andor (2025). “Bringing Survivors’ Postwar Stories to Montreal’s Streets: The Making of Refugee Boulevard, a Multimedia Project.” Oral History Journal 53:1, 99-110.

Naomi Frost and Anna Sheftel (2024). “’The People Who Stayed’: Back River Memorial Gardens Cemetery as a site of Jewish Migrant and Montreal Urban Meaning-Making.” Urban History Review 52:2, 339-361.

Anna Sheftel (2024). “Kaddish for Unasked Questions: On Interviewing my Father.” Holocaust Studies, Special issue: A Festschrift in Honour of Henry (Hank) Greenspan 30:4, 650-662.

Iacey boudreau, Angela Brunet, Samm Reid, Joshua “jay” Sallos and Anna Sheftel (2024). “Listening Beyond: Collaborative Reflections on Learning about Activism through an Undergraduate Oral History and Podcasting Project.” The Oral History Review 51:2, 399-425.

Direction de numéros de revue

Cyril Adonis and Anna Sheftel (eds.) (2025). Memory at the Intersection of Mass Violence and Socio-Economic Inequality. Special issue of Memory Studies. Memory Studies 18:6.

Prix et distinctions

  • Dean’s Award for Excellence in Academic Service, Concordia University (2024)
  • Oral History Association Mason Multi-Media Award pour le projet Refugee Boulevard: Making Montreal Home After the Holocaust, (2020)
  • Canadian Historical Association Public History Group Prize pour le projet Refugee Boulevard: Making Montreal Home After the Holocaust, (2020)
  • Oral History Association Article Award pour l’article “Talking and Not Talking about Violence: Challenges in Interviewing Survivors of Atrocity as Whole People.” publié dans The Oral History Review (2018), (2019)

 

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