Ben Mcvicker
PhD Program
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2014-2017; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant, 2011-2013 Ben McVicker’s proposed dissertation examines the social status of the afgantsy – veterans of the 1979-1989 war in Afghanistan – and their cultural and political representation in Post-Soviet society. Relevant interests include domestic opposition to the Soviet-Afghan War, the emergence of unauthorized veterans clubs, and memorialization in different countries. His previous work dealt largely with the politics of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and the reinvention of Soviet literary figures under Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2014-2017; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant, 2011-2013 Ben McVicker’s proposed dissertation examines the social status of the afgantsy – veterans of the 1979-1989 war in Afghanistan – and their cultural and political representation in Post-Soviet society. Relevant interests include domestic opposition to the Soviet-Afghan War, the emergence of unauthorized veterans clubs, and memorialization in different countries. His previous work dealt largely with the politics of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and the reinvention of Soviet literary figures under Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin.
Research Interest
History
