Stacey Zembrzycki was born and raised in N'Swakamok/Sudbury, Ontario, and currently resides in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Quebec. The granddaughter of two miners who came from Warsaw, Poland, and Mossey River, Manitoba, to work in Sudbury’s nickel mines in the postwar period, she spent the bulk of her childhood in their homes, listening to their stories but mostly those told by her grandmothers.

This experience is evident in her award-winning work as an oral and public historian of ethnic, immigrant, and refugee experience. She is the author of According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian Community (UBC Press, 2014) and is co-editor of Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) as well as Beyond Women’s Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2018). Most recently, she directed the SSHRC-funded projects Refugee Boulevard: Making Montreal Home After the Holocaust and Mining Immigrant Bodies: A Multi-Ethnic Oral History of Industry, Environment, and Health. She also served as the podcast manager for the Discover Library and Archives Canada “Porter Talk” podcast series.

Contact

stacey.zembrzycki@gmail.com