JULIA CREET, B.A., History, University of Victoria, M.A. History and Philosophy of Education, University of Toronto, Ph.D., History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz. Prof. Julia Creet is a leading international scholar in Cultural Memory Studies having been involved in the development of the field since the 1990s. Prof. Creet’s research projects are broadly interdisciplinary spanning the Humanities and the Social Sciences including the history of the Holocaust, literary studies, film studies, archival studies, public history, data privacy and direct-to-consumer genetics.

Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary approaches to memory studies, co-edited with Andreas Kitzmann (UTP 2010, reissued in paper in 2014) is held by 925 libraries worldwide (Worldcat) making it one of the foundational texts in the field of Memory Studies. H.G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy, (Northwestern UP 2016) co-edited with Sara Horowitz and Amira Dan, won the Jewish Thought And Culture Award from the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards. Her forthcoming The Genealogical Sublime (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019) is a crossover academic/trade book that traces the cultural, historical and corporate histories of the longest, largest, and most profitable genealogy databases in the world.

In 2017, Julia Creet received a York Research Leader Award in part for her leadership in public engagement. In addition to her scholarship, Creet has also produced and directed two documentary films. MUM: A Story of Silence (38 min 2008) is a personal documentary about a Holocaust survivor who tried to forget. That engagement with family history led to a documentary investigating the cultural and technological zeitgeist of genealogy itself. Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family (56 mins 2017, HD) has aired multiple times on TVO to over 300,000 viewers and is now streaming on demand in Canada, the UK, the US, India and Australia. Creet’s nonfiction and journalism has featured in The Conversation, The National Post, Reader’s Digest, Toronto Life, Exile, Border/Lines and West Coast Line.

Research Interests

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Theory and Criticism,                     1995-1996          - 1995-96
• Scholar-in-Residence, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University 2010 (Fall) - 2010
• Faculty of Arts Fellowship, York University 2001     - 2001
• U.W.O. Gold Medal (1985) - 1986
• Gregory Heitzmann Prize in Japanese Studies, University of Victoria 1985 - 1985
• Leonard Prize for Highest Standards of Character and Performance in Campus Life, Wesleyan Univ., 1985. - 1985
• University of Western Ontario -
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands -

Current Courses

JULIA CREET, B.A., History, University of Victoria, M.A. History and Philosophy of Education, University of Toronto, Ph.D., History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz. Prof. Julia Creet is a leading international scholar in Cultural Memory Studies having been involved in the development of the field since the 1990s. Prof. Creet’s research projects are broadly interdisciplinary spanning the Humanities and the Social Sciences including the history of the Holocaust, literary studies, film studies, archival studies, public history, data privacy and direct-to-consumer genetics.

Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary approaches to memory studies, co-edited with Andreas Kitzmann (UTP 2010, reissued in paper in 2014) is held by 925 libraries worldwide (Worldcat) making it one of the foundational texts in the field of Memory Studies. H.G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy, (Northwestern UP 2016) co-edited with Sara Horowitz and Amira Dan, won the Jewish Thought And Culture Award from the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards. Her forthcoming The Genealogical Sublime (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019) is a crossover academic/trade book that traces the cultural, historical and corporate histories of the longest, largest, and most profitable genealogy databases in the world.

In 2017, Julia Creet received a York Research Leader Award in part for her leadership in public engagement. In addition to her scholarship, Creet has also produced and directed two documentary films. MUM: A Story of Silence (38 min 2008) is a personal documentary about a Holocaust survivor who tried to forget. That engagement with family history led to a documentary investigating the cultural and technological zeitgeist of genealogy itself. Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family (56 mins 2017, HD) has aired multiple times on TVO to over 300,000 viewers and is now streaming on demand in Canada, the UK, the US, India and Australia. Creet’s nonfiction and journalism has featured in The Conversation, The National Post, Reader’s Digest, Toronto Life, Exile, Border/Lines and West Coast Line.

Degrees

Professional Leadership

Research Leader Award, York University 2017 Jewish Thought And Culture Award, Canadian Jewish Literary Awards 2016 for H.G Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy. Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, Research Leave 2015, 2013 Tziporah Weisel Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Feb-June 2014 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. Scholar-in-Residence, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University 2010-11

Research Interests

Awards

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Theory and Criticism,                     1995-1996          - 1995-96
• Scholar-in-Residence, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University 2010 (Fall) - 2010
• Faculty of Arts Fellowship, York University 2001     - 2001
• U.W.O. Gold Medal (1985) - 1986
• Gregory Heitzmann Prize in Japanese Studies, University of Victoria 1985 - 1985
• Leonard Prize for Highest Standards of Character and Performance in Campus Life, Wesleyan Univ., 1985. - 1985
• University of Western Ontario -
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands -

Current Courses