Marci Shore | |
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Born | 1972 (age 51–52)
Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Associate professor of intellectual history |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
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Academic work | |
Sub-discipline | History of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology |
Institutions | Yale University |
Marci Shore (born 1972) is an American associate professor of intellectual history at Yale University, where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology.
Shore is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968, a milieu biography of Polish and Polish-Jewish writers drawn to Marxism in the twentieth century; and of The Taste of Ashes, a study of the presence of the communist and Nazi past in today's Eastern Europe. She translated Michał Głowiński's Holocaust memoir, The Black Seasons. Shore married Timothy D. Snyder, professor of history at Yale, in 2005. Shore is Jewish. [1] [2] [3]
Shore graduated in 1991 from William Allen High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. from Stanford University in 1994, [4] her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996, [5] and her doctorate from Stanford University in 2001. [5] She works chiefly in French, German, Polish, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Yiddish sources. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute, an assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Indiana University, and the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale. [5] She has twice been a fellow of the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute of Human Sciences) in Vienna. Shore teaches European cultural and intellectual history at Yale. [5]
Her book, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, won eight awards and was shortlisted for several more. These include: [6]
Marci Shore | |
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Born | 1972 (age 51–52)
Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Associate professor of intellectual history |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Academic work | |
Sub-discipline | History of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology |
Institutions | Yale University |
Marci Shore (born 1972) is an American associate professor of intellectual history at Yale University, where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology.
Shore is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968, a milieu biography of Polish and Polish-Jewish writers drawn to Marxism in the twentieth century; and of The Taste of Ashes, a study of the presence of the communist and Nazi past in today's Eastern Europe. She translated Michał Głowiński's Holocaust memoir, The Black Seasons. Shore married Timothy D. Snyder, professor of history at Yale, in 2005. Shore is Jewish. [1] [2] [3]
Shore graduated in 1991 from William Allen High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. from Stanford University in 1994, [4] her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996, [5] and her doctorate from Stanford University in 2001. [5] She works chiefly in French, German, Polish, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Yiddish sources. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute, an assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Indiana University, and the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale. [5] She has twice been a fellow of the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute of Human Sciences) in Vienna. Shore teaches European cultural and intellectual history at Yale. [5]
Her book, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, won eight awards and was shortlisted for several more. These include: [6]