Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Conflict, Violence and Genocide
- Europe
- Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
- Russia
Biography
Marilyn is currently a PhD Candidate in modern European and Russian history at the History Department and the Anne Tanenbaum Center for Jewish Studies. Marilyn's dissertation investigates the visual experience of Soviet combatants on the Soviet-German Front during the Great Patriotic War through an examination of frontline soldiers’ drawings, as well as war photographs and caricatures. She works under the supervisions of Professors Lynne Viola, Doris Bergen, and Anna Shternshis. She specializes in Late Imperial and Contemporary Russia, Twentieth Century Europe and Jewish Studies. Her research interests sit at the intersection of the history of everyday life, war and violence, propaganda as a mean of indoctrination, gender history, and visual culture. Marilyn speaks French, English, Russian, German, and Spanish.
Cross Appointments: Anne Tanenbaum Center for Jewish Studies
Publications
“Ivan vs Staline: Le stalinisme dans la vie quotidienne du soldat soviétique moyen, 1941–1945.” (Cahiers d’histoire, Vol 34, No 2, 2017: 99–121);
“Culture et idéologie soviétique à travers les écrits personnels des soldats de Staline.” (History in the Making Review, Vol 2, No 1, 2013: 1–14);
“Idéologie et vie quotidienne de soldats soviétiques durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale: une analyse de correspondances militaires.” Master’s thesis available online at http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/5439/ (UQAM, September 2013);
“Ivan le‘survivant’: le quotidien du soldat soviétique durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.” Article available online at http://www.revuelemanuscrit.uqam.ca/index.php/edition-colloque/v-colloque-2013 (UQAM, 2013);
“Les conditions de détention des prisonniers de guerre canadiens-français durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.” (Revue d’histoire du Québec, Cap-aux-Diamants, No 112, 2013: 32–35).
“Vivre derrière les barreaux: une analyse de récits personnels de prisonniers de guerre canadiens-français durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.” (Journal des membres, Légion Royale Canadienne, Filiale 35, Vol 7, No 2, June 2013: 6–7)
Awards
- 2019 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- 2019 Joyce and Arthur Schechter Fellowship United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington D.C.
- 2018 Sonshine Graduate Award in Holocaust Studies
- 2018 Natalie Zemon-Davis Fellowship
- 2018 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- 2017 Granovsky-Gluskin Graduate Scholarship in Jewish Studies
- 2017 Joint Initiative in German and European Studies (JIGES) Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2016 Sonshine Graduate Award in Holocaust Studies
- 2016 Doctoral Scholarship Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS (SSHRC)
- 2015 Joint Initiative in German and European Studies (JIGES) Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2015 Award from the Shiff Graduate Student Enhancement Fund in Jewish Studies
- 2011 Master's scholarship Joseph-Armand Bombardier (SSHRC)