MARCI SHORE

Professor of History at Yale University; she will begin teaching at the University of Toronto’s Munk School in fall 2025. She is also 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 New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Among her most recent work related to the war is an essay on rereading Lev Shestov in wartime Kyiv in Liberties; «A Conversation about Evil», with Jurko Prochasko in Irish Pages; «Invisible Bridges: On Ukraine, Russia, and Friendships» in The Yale Review; and an interview with Volodymyr Rafeyenko in Project Syndicate. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for the book project about phenomenology she is currently completing, tentatively titled In Pursuit of Certainty Lost: Central European Encounters on the Way to Truth.