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Anna Sheftel <asheftel AT gmail.com> Oxford University Research interests include: Twentieth-century history and politics of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, memory studies and post-atrocity testimony, twentieth-century war and genocide, oral history, truth commissions and redressing of atrocity, developing trust between local communities, state governments, and international actors in post-conflict situations, memory of communism, forced migration, and the politics and history of multiculturalism. |
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List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-Memory |
Interests: | European History / Studies Oral History |
Bio: Anna Sheftel is an FQRSC postdoctoral fellow in the department of History and Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She is currently researching how Holocaust survivors remember and recount publicly, as well as the personal, social and political context of that remembering. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled The Construction of Formal and Informal Historical Narratives of Violence in North-Western Bosnia, World War II Until Present, employs oral history and document-based research to understand how contemporary Bosnians negotiate their memories of war within the context local, ethnic and national narratives, all with their own politics. She recently published a co-authored reflection on humanistic oral history methodology in the Oral History Review entitled, “Only Human: A Reflection on the Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Working with ‘Difficult’ Stories” (Summer/Fall 2010), and has an article forthcoming entitled "'Monument to the International Community, From the Grateful Citizens of Sarajevo': Dark Humour as Counter-Memory in Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina" forthcoming from Memory Studies. |