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Kassandra Luciuk

Assistant Professor

Kassandra_Luciuk

Email: luciuk@dal.ca
Phone: 902 494 3355
Mailing Address: 
Department of History, pilipiliÂþ»­, 6135 University Avenue, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2 (Office location Marion McCain Building, Room 3181)
 
Research Topics:
  • Canada
  • Migration and ethnicity
  • Law and human rights
  • Social and political movements
  • Carcerality and internment
  • Communism and anti-communism
  • Ukraine and Ukrainian diaspora
  • World War One and World War Two
  • Cold War security, espionage, and disinformation

Education:
BA (Queen's University)
MA (Queen's University)
PhD (University of Toronto)

Recent Publications:

“‘Her Calumny Has Penetrated Every Drawing Room in Ottawa’: Gossip and Scandal in Canada’s Nationalities Branch, 1939-1945,� Canadian Historical Review 107, no. 2 (2026).

“‘They Will Crack Heads When the Communist Line is Expounded’: Anti-Communist Violence in Cold War Canada,� Labour/Le Travail 90 (Fall 2022).
- Winner: 2023 Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism Article Prize

Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2020).
-ÌýShortlisted: 2022 KOBZAR Book Award

"Reinserting Radicalism: Canada's First National Internment Operations, the Ukrainian Left, and the Politics of Redress," in Rhonda Hinther and Jim Mochoruk, eds., Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020).

"More Dangerous Than Many a Pamphlet or Propaganda Book:  The Ukrainian Canadian Left, Theatre, and Propaganda in the 1920s," Labour/Le Travail 83 (Spring 2019).
-ÌýWinner: 2020 Jean-Marie Fecteau Prize, Canadian Historical Association

“Canada’s First National Internment Operations and the Search for Sanctuary in the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association,� in Adriana Davies and Jeffrey Keshen, eds., The Frontier of Patriotism: Alberta and the First World War (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2016)