Marci Shore

Marci Shore received her BA from Stanford University, her MA from University of Toronto, and her Ph.D from Stanford University. After completing her doctorate, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University and subsequently assistant professor of history at Indiana University from 2002 to 2006. She left her position as Professor of History after 19 years at Yale University, returning to Toronto to teach at the Munk School.

Her research focuses on the intellectual history of twentieth and twenty-first century Central and Eastern Europe. Since 2004 she has been a regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. In spring 2025 she guest curated, together with Oksana Forostyna, the Kyiv Book Arsenal with the theme “Everything is Translation.” She is the translator of Michał Głowiński's The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism,1918-1968 and The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe. A new edition of her third book, The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution, was published in March 2024. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Eurozine, The Atlantic, The Yale Review, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Her essay "With Shestov in Ukraine" will appear in The Best American Essays 2026. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her book project about phenomenology in Central Europe; the book is forthcoming in 2028 under the title "The Truth-Seekers."

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