Sonya Di Sclafani

Having just completed her undergraduate degree in History (honors) with a minor in English Literature, she is now pursuing an MA in History at Concordia. Previously, she had completed an undergraduate degree at Concordia in Photography and Art History and a diploma in Interior Design at Dawson College. She is interested in the immigration experience, cross-cultural experiences, East European history and the Jewish experience, especially as learned through oral history and community engagement. Her planned MA thesis will be centred on the Montreal Hungarian diaspora and women’s experiences of cultural identity through foodways. She will be interviewing first and second generation women of Hungarian background along with key members of the community with a focus on food as a means of cultural continuity and disruption.