Anna Sheftel
Chercheure régulière dans l’axe de recherche : Démocratie et pluralisme (Axe III) | Membre du CRIDAQ depuis 2023
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)
- 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)
- 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)
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.


