Anastasia Simferovska

Anastasia Simferovska holds a PhD in art history from Lviv National Academy of Arts, and is a PhD candidate in Slavic Studies at Northwestern University. In her research, Dr. Simferovska explores cultural, artistic, and literary relations among Jews, Poles, Russians, and Ukrainians in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a specific focus on national and cultural identity, the idea of otherness, and the reaction to and representation of war and violence. Her publications appeared in Holocaust Studies: the Ukrainian Focus, Dapim Journal for Holocaust Research, Judaica Ucrainica, and Ars Judaica. She also published a monographic catalog of the Polish-Armenian artist Kaetan Stefanowicz. Currently, Anastasia Simferovska is a Kurt and Thea Sonnenmark Memorial Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Previously she has been a Fellow at the Holocaust Educational Foundation Regional Institute, a Fellow at Gaude Polonia, a visiting professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, and a scholar-in-residence, researcher, and curator at the Voznytsky National Art Gallery in Lviv, Ukraine.