Researcher
Stacey Zembrzycki
Department of History
Expertise
Stacey Zembrzycki is an award-winning oral and public historian of ethnic, immigrant, and refugee experience. She is the author of According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury鈥檚 Ukrainian Community (UBC Press, 2014) and its accompanying website: , which was short-listed for the 2016 Taras Shevchenko Foundation biennial Kobzar Literary Award. She is also co-editor of Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), which won the 2014 US Oral History Association Book Award, and Beyond Women鈥檚 Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2018), which won the 2019 US Oral History Association Book Award.
Her current projects, all funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, include:
Refugee Boulevard: Making Montreal Home After the Holocaust: (on Facebook: @refugeeboulevard)
Mining Immigrant Bodies: A Multi-Ethnic Oral History of Industry, Environment, and Health in the Sudbury Region: (on Facebook: @miningimmigrantbodies)
Chaperoning Survivors: Telling Holocaust Stories on the March of the Living
Follow her on Twitter @szembrzycki
Publications
- Zembrzycki, Stacey. According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury鈥檚 Ukrainian Community. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2014. Accompanying Websites: and .
- Zembrzycki, Stacey. Co-edited with Katrina Srigley and Franca Iacovetta. Beyond Women鈥檚 Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century. London: Routledge, 2018.
- Zembrzycki, Stacey. Co-edited with Katrina Srigley. Special Section on 鈥淒ecentering and Decolonizing Feminist Oral History.鈥 Oral History Review 45, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2018).
- Zembrzycki, Stacey. 鈥淭he Sinter Plant Boys: Jean Gagnon and the Personal Challenges of Fighting to Compensate Sudbury Families.鈥 Forthcoming in Histoire sociale / Social History.
- Zembrzycki, Stacey. Co-authored with Anna Sheftel. 鈥淪lowing Down to Listen in the Digital Age: How New Technology is Changing Oral History Practice.鈥 Oral History Review 44, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2017): 94-112.
- Zembrzycki, Stacey. Co-authored with Anna Sheftel. 鈥淲ho鈥檚 Afraid of Oral History? Fifty Years of Debates and Anxiety About Ethics.鈥 Oral History Review 43, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2016): 338-366.
- Zembrzycki, Stacey. Co-authored with Anna Sheftel. 鈥溾楺uestions are more important than answers鈥: Creating Collaborative Workshop Spaces with Holocaust Survivor-Educators in Montreal.鈥 In Beyond Testimony and Trauma: Oral History in the Aftermath of Mass Violence, ed. Steven High, 212-234. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2015.