Alexander (Sasha) Senderovich

Ph.D. Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literature
Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
Barker Center
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
senderov@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests
Jewish literature and culture, particularly in Russian, East and Central European contexts; literature, memory and cultural history in Soviet and post-Soviet periods; emigration and exile; comparative literature; Yiddish;
photography and film; monuments and public memory.

Publications
"Tatyana's Glory; or the Birth Pangs of a Civil Society. The Ethics of
Normalcy in Present Day Russia." New York: The Elie Wiesel Foundation for
the Humanity, 2003. Available online at
http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/EthicsPrize/Winners/2003Winners.htm

Awards, Grants, and Prizes
Presidential Scholar Award (Harvard, 2003)
Merle Fainsod Prize (Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard, 2003)
Anna Mornoy Feldberg Summer Research Grant (Center for Jewish Studies,
Harvard, 2003)
The Elie Wiesel Essay Prize in Ethics (first prize, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, 2003)