Department of History

Kassandra Luciuk

Assistant Professor

Kassandra_Luciuk
Department of History

Email: luciuk@dal.ca
Phone: 902 494 3355
Mailing Address: 
Department of History, ±«Óătv University, 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).
-ÌęShortlisted: 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).
-ÌęWinner: 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)