title: Undoing the language of the KGB files: collaborative partnership for archival justice and the Indigenous peoples of (Soviet) Ukraine (1954--1991)
abstract: SSHRC PDG awarded 2025: This project addresses the systemic persecution and erasure of the Crimean Tatars under Soviet rule, culminating in the 1944 deportation of approximately 230,000 people from Crimea—an event in which nearly half perished. Although return was permitted in 1989, decades of state-driven marginalization left lasting prejudice and misunderstanding. The project investigates why Soviet erasure of the Crimean Tatars was so effective. It centers on the archives of the Soviet State 
journal: Open MIND