Dr. Anna Sheftel
Dr. Anna Sheftel is Principal and Associate Professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University. She has worked in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with Holocaust survivors in Montreal, with student activists, and she is currently doing a project about a strange little Jewish cemetery. She has published extensively on oral history practice, ethics and pedagogy, most notably Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice, co-edited with Stacey Zembrzycki, which won the Oral History Association’s 2014 Book Award, and her article, “Talking and Not Talking about Violence: Challenges in Interviewing Survivors of Atrocity as Whole People,” won the OHA’s 2019 Article Award.