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Jan RAŠKA

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Waterloo

            JAN RAŠKA is an emerging scholar in Canadian immigration history and ethnic studies. His research focuses on the interplay of ethnic nationalism and sociopolitical organization in East European communities in Canada. He seeks to incorporate their history into Canada's multicultural heritage. Raška is a PhD Candidate within the Tri-University Graduate Program in History, University of Waterloo, Canada. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Raška has published his work in  the International Journal of Canadian Studies; has spoken at international conferences across Canada and in Poland; testified before the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights; and volunteers on a committee for refugee issues. He is presently  the editor of PRAVO: North American Journal for Central European Studies.

SELECTED AWARDS

Faculty of Arts Graduate Scholarship, Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo,  (2008-2010)

Arts Graduate Experience Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo,  (2008-2010)

University of Waterloo Graduate Entrance Scholarship, University of Waterloo,  (2008-2010)

Gaston Héon Graduate Scholarship in History, University of Ottawa, Ontario  (2006)

Undergraduate Entrance Scholarship, University of Ottawa, Ontario  (2000-2001)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Sustaining Loyalty, Preserving the Homeland: the Second Czechoslovak Liberation Movement in

Montreal (1938-1945),” Canadian Slavonic Papers (Under Review, October 2009).

 

 “Mistrusted Strangers at Home: Czechs, Slovaks, and the Canadian Enemy Aliens Registration Issue,

1938-1942,” International Journal of Canadian Studies 38 (2009), 91-117.

 

“Hungarians in Canada” in The Hungarian Presence in Canada: Sharing the Present, Remembering

the Past, Shaping the Future. [http://www.hungarianpresence.ca/map.cfm]. April 2007.

SELECTED CONFERENCES AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS 

Presenter, “Masking ‘Undesirable’ Entry, Subverting Integration: Czechoslovakia’s Émigrés,

Espionage, and Canadian State Security, 1945-1968,” Canadian Association of Slavists Annual

Meeting 2009, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (May 23, 2009).

 

Presenter, “Forging States of Dissent: Czech Émigrés, Communist Spies, and Canadian State Security,

1945-1968,” International Conference: Secret Weapon or Victims of the Cold War? Central and

Eastern European Political Émigrés, Institute of National Remembrance, Lublin, Poland (November

13, 2008).

 

Witness, Bill C-280 (Refugee Appeal Division), Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights, Senate

of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (June 2, 2008).

 

Presenter, “Allies Abroad, Enemy Aliens at Home: Czechs, Slovaks, and the Canadian 'Enemy Aliens'

Registration Issue (1938-1942),” Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Nineteenth Biennial

Conference, Hotel Fort Garry, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (Sept. 28, 2007).

 

Presenter, “Competing Ideologies and Ambitious Politics: Nová vlasť and the “Czechoslovak” Press

Perspective during the Second World War in Canada,” McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference in

History, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (Mar. 16, 2007).

 

Presenter, “Whose Truth Should Prevail? Canadian Czechs and Slovaks and the Wartime ‘Enemy

Aliens’ Registration Issue (1939-1942),” Underhill Graduate Colloquium in History, Carleton

University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Mar. 9, 2007).

 

Presenter, “A Fractured Response: The Canadian Czech and Slovak Reaction to the Second

Czechoslovak Liberation Movement, 1938-1945,” New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference, York

University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Feb. 16, 2007).

 

Presenter, ““A Pebble in the Skyscraper:” Czech-Canadian Socio-Political Formation and the Politics of

Home (1939-1948),” Pierre Savard History Graduate Colloquium, University of Ottawa, Ontario,

Canada (Apr. 7, 2006).

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 

 

American Society for Church History (2006- ) 

Canadian Association of Slavists  (2009- )

Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (2006- ) 

Organization for the History of Canada (2006- )

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Vice-President, Tri-University Graduate Students Association, University of Waterloo,  (2008- )

Founder & Editor, PRAVO: North American Journal for Central European Studies,  (2007- )

Committee Member, Refugee Outreach Committee, St. Joseph’s Parish Ottawa, Ontario,  (2007 - )

Vice-President (Internal), History Graduate Students Association, University of Ottawa,  (2006-2007)

Board Councilor (History), Graduate Student Association, University of Ottawa, Ontario  (2005-2006)

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