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Marci Shore is a Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, and holds the Temerty Chair in European Intellectual History and Ukrainian Studies. She is on leave from Yale University, where she previously served as a Professor of History, and will assume her Toronto post in 2025. Her work focuses on 20th-21st century Central/Eastern Europe, with emphasis on intellectual history, totalitarianism, and postmodernism.
Educated at Stanford (BA/PhD) and the University of Toronto (MA), Shore has held fellowships at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and Vienna’s Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen. Her acclaimed books include Caviar and Ashes, The Taste of Ashes, and The Ukrainian Night, which explores the 2014 revolution. She received a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship for research on phenomenology in East-Central Europe.
Shore’s writing appears in The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, and The New York Review of Books. Her recent work addresses Ukraine-Russia dynamics, including interviews with displaced writers like Volodymyr Rafeyenko. She critiques modern authoritarianism, blending historical analysis with contemporary political commentary.
- Rewards: 8 awards for Caviar and Ashes, including the National Jewish Book Award and Oskar Halecki Prize
- Current Projects: Ukrainian Studies, postmodern ethics, and phenomenology of evil
- Media Presence: Podcast host, columnist, and frequent commentator on European affairs
