The Backstory

카지노 게임 컬렉션I finally found what I was meant to do."

Rebecca Clifford standing outside wearing a red scarf and black jacket

Photograph by Erika Tanith for the Cundill History Prize

Rebecca Clifford (Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션97) went through several careers after graduating from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s with a history degree. She taught English as a second language in Japan and Italy and did diplomatic work in Beijing with Global Affairs Canada.

She found her calling at the age of 30 when she went back to school and earned a PhD from the 카지노게임사이트 of Oxford and is presently a history professor at Durham 카지노게임사이트 in England.

Now add the title of 카지노 게임 컬렉션acclaimed author카지노 게임 컬렉션 to her resumé as her latest book, Survivors: Children카지노 게임 컬렉션s Lives After the Holocaust, is earning high praise from critics and readers.

The Globe and Mail and the Daily Telegraph both named it one of the best books of the year, and Dr. Clifford was a finalist for a top international writing award, the $95,000 Cundill History Prize. She was also shortlisted for a major British history writing award, the Wolfson History Prize.

카지노 게임 컬렉션After a lot of career changes, it feels like I have finally found what I was meant to do,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Dr. Clifford says.

Survivors looks at 100 Jewish children and focuses on the long-term impact of the Holocaust. She says it is a victory that most of these children were able to move on 카지노 게임 컬렉션 working full time and raising families 카지노 게임 컬렉션 despite their trauma.

This is the historian카지노 게임 컬렉션s third book. What makes Survivors different is she intentionally wrote for a broader, non-academic audience.

카지노 게임 컬렉션Like all good academic writing, it has an argument, methodology, and theoretical content,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Clifford. 카지노 게임 컬렉션So, what I had to learn was to never put those things in the centre of the book and to always push them to the margins. What is central is people카지노 게임 컬렉션s stories and I found it so liberating to write that way.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Dr. Clifford was born and raised in Kingston and has always been a fan of historical writing. She grew up reading Anne of Green Gables, set in late 19th-century Canada.

Her love of history flourished while studying at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s and she remembers being inspired by professors such as Geoff Smith, who recently passed away. She recalls Dr. Smith teaching a lesson about beat poetry by standing in front of the class with a lit candle on his head and hot wax dripping on his face as he read Allen Ginsberg.

카지노 게임 컬렉션I remember thinking, 카지노 게임 컬렉션That is how you engage students,카지노 게임 컬렉션카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Clifford. 카지노 게임 컬렉션[Smith] was amazing and opened my eyes not only to history but to history teaching, which I think about a lot now as I teach my own students.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Another transformative Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s experience was attending the Bader International Study Centre. Studying abroad in a 15th-century castle sparked a love of travel and England, the country she now calls home.

카지노 게임 컬렉션I had never been in a building as old as [Herstmonceux Castle],카지노 게임 컬렉션 Dr. Clifford says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Something struck me about England that, to this day, I have not stopped appreciating.카지노 게임 컬렉션

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