Lynne Viola, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Impact Award: Gold Medal
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$100,000
The practice of Stalin's great terror: a documentary history of Soviet perpetrators
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
$183,000
The question of the perpetrator in the history of the Soviet Union
SSHRC · 2008 · Principal investigator
$69,800

All 5 grants and awards

No publications available.

Impact Award: Gold Medal

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Gold Medal

Principal investigators: Viola, Lynne

Keywords: Soviet Union; Stalin; peasants; repression; concentration camps

$100,000

The practice of Stalin's great terror: a documentary history of Soviet perpetrators

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Viola, Lynne

Keywords: Stalin; Soviet Union; great terror; political trials; perpetrators

$183,000

The question of the perpetrator in the history of the Soviet Union

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Viola, Lynne

Keywords: Stalinism; violence; terror; perpetrators

$69,800

Stalin's special villages: the birth of the Soviet Gulag - a three-volume documentary history

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Viola, Lynne

Keywords: Soviet Union; Stalin; peasants; concentration camps

$115,270

The other archipelago: Stalin's war against the peasantry

Principal investigatorSSHRC2000Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Viola, Lynne

Keywords: Stalinism; Soviet Union; peasantry; repression; deportation; concentration camps; forced labor

$65,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Viola, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Impact Award: Gold Medal" (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]