Marci Shore
Professor and Chair in European Intellectual History, Supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Marci Shore is a professor and the inaugural Chair in European Intellectual History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. She received her BA from Stanford University, her MA from the University of Toronto, and her PhD from Stanford University. After completing her doctorate, Shore was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, an assistant professor of history at Indiana University, and a professor of history at Yale University.
Shore’s 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. 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. In 2018, Shore received a Guggenheim Fellowship for the book project about phenomenology in East-Central Europe tentatively titled In Pursuit of Certainty Lost: Central European Encounters on the Way to Truth.
Professor Shore has won multiple awards for her writing and teaching. Her book, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968, won eight awards including the National Jewish Book Award in Eastern European Studies from the Jewish Book Council (2006), the Oskar Halecki Polish/East Central European History Award from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (2007), was co-winner of the 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies/Orbis Books Prize for Polish Studies, and was shortlisted for several more. Shore was also awarded the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities by Yale University in 2023.