Lucky’s dissertation, Information Borderlands: Jewish News Networks during the Holocaust, 1933-1950 charts how the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) used their news agency and its more than 150 employees in bureaus around the world to spy on the Nazis and resist fascism on a global scale. News agencies like the JTA, Associated Press, and Reuters are powerful global companies that gather and supply information to newspapers, fundamentally shaping what news readers encounter. Outwardly, the JTA was the primary, and often only, news organization reporting on the annihilation of European Jewry during the Holocaust. Behind the scenes, JTA doubled as a global spy agency dedicated to resisting fascism. Studying their activities helps reveal the essential global role of Jewish news in the twentieth century while also suggesting new ways to explore the geography of Jewish diasporic networks. Lucky analyzes the intertwined histories of news and espionage, the connections between the press and the Holocaust, and the vulnerability of diasporic networks.
Advisor: Frances Tanzer
Education:
- B.A. Honours, History, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, 2018
- M.A., History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2021
Publications:
- “A Voice Behind the Headlines: The Public Relations of the Canadian Jewish Congress during the Holocaust.” Journal of Holocaust Research 38, no. 1 (2024): 18-34, DOI: 10.1080/25785648.2023.2256615.
- “(New) Media and the Circulation of Knowledge: A Historical Framework for The Conversation Canada.” Information & Culture 58, no. 3 (2023): 221–46. DOI: 10.7560/IC58301. With Gene Allen.
Fellowships:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Award, 2022-2026
- Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship and the Dora and Mayer Tendler Endowed Fellowship in American Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2023-2024
- Claims Conference Fellow (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) , 2022-2024
- Persky Graduate Research Support Fellow, 2025
- Kent Graduate Research Award, 2025
