New PJRC staff member

The PJRC is pleased to announce that Nadia Zavorotna has accepted the term position of .5 FTE Reference Specialist in the Petro Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre. She will begin working weekdays from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on March 1, 2010.

Many of you know Nadia who has been working as a Graduate Student Library Assistant for the PJRC and the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library since May 2006. Nadia is a native of Chernivtsi, Ukraine, where in 1991 she completed a B.A. in history at the city's State University. Nadia immigrated to Canada in 2001, settling in the greater Toronto area. Here she has continued to pursue her studies, completing her M.A. in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (2005) from the University of Toronto, and presently working towards a M.I.St. from the University's Faculty of Information with an expected graduation date of late 2010. Additionally, she has taken many language courses, including Czech at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and German at the Goethe Institute, Toronto.

Nadia brings to the PJRC a great deal of subject expertise and language skills. She has published a number of book reviews and articles related to Ukrainian and Russian studies. Her current research interests include the cultural and intellectual life of the Ukrainian émigré community in Czechoslovakia during the interwar period, and the literary life of Bukovina (an area of the north-eastern Carpathian Mountains and the adjoining plain). Nadia is fluent in English, Ukrainian, and Russian, and has advanced knowledge of Czech and German.

Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Nadia in her new position.