Sofiya Grachova

Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies Postdoctoral Fellow

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Name of Postdoctoral Fellowship

Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies Postdoctoral Fellow

Biography

Dr. Grachova is a postdoctoral fellow at the Anne Tanenbaum Center for Jewish Studies, working with Professor Anna Shternshis. Her postdoctoral research focuses on Jewish history and the Holocaust in Ukraine. She earned her PhD in history from Harvard University in 2014. She previously held a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and while in residence as a fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (2015-16), Dr. Grachova conducted research on her project, “Science and Inter-ethnic Relations in Galicia/Western Ukraine (1937-1947)”. She possesses language skills in Russian, Ukrainian, English, Polish, German, and Yiddish.