Anna Sheftel

Biography

Anna Sheftel is Principal and Associate Professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University. She has done oral history projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with Holocaust survivors in Montreal, with student activists, and she is currently working on a project about a strange but significant little Jewish cemetery in Montreal. She co-created Refugee Boulevard: Making Montreal Home After the Holocaust, a collaborative audio tour which won both the 2020 Oral History Association (OHA) and Canadian Historical Association (CHA) Digital and Public History prizes. She has also published extensively on oral history practice, ethics and pedagogy, most notably Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), co-edited with Stacey Zembrzycki, which won the OHA’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.