Marci Shore teaches European cultural and intellectual history.  She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her PhD from Stanford University in 2001.  Before joining Yale’s history department, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University‘s Harriman Institute; an assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Indiana University; and Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale.  She is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 (Yale University Press, 2006) and the translator of Michal Glowinski‘s Holocaust memoir The Black Seasons (Northwestern University Press, 2005). Her book The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe is forthcoming in January 2013 (Broadway Books/Random House).  Currently she is at work on a book project titled “Phenomenological Encounters: Scenes from Central Europe.