Adam Farkas

Adam Farkas

First Name: 
Adam
Last Name: 
Farkas
Title: 
Faculty of Arts and Science Postdoctoral Fellow
Biography : 

Dr. Adam Farkas holds a PhD in Russian History from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. Before arriving at the University of Toronto, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research fellow at Eötvös Loránd University. His work has been supported by the Visegrad Scholarship at the Open Society Archives, the Hungarian Eötvös State Scholarship, and the Fordham–NYPL Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies.

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Comparative nationalism and ethnicity
  • Minority rights and agency
  • Israel and the Palestinian Arab minority
  • Post-Soviet politics and societies
     
Postdoctoral Fellowship Title: 
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science
Postdoctoral Fellowship Description: 

He is currently an Arts and Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His research examines the oral histories of Soviet Jewish émigrés who arrived in the United States in the 1970s, analyzing their personal stories within broader questions of identity formation, cultural perception, and migration. Through these narratives, he investigates the dissonance between émigrés’ self-understanding and the cultural expectations of American society, and how this shaped their integration and sense of belonging.

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