Elena Kusaka

Elena Kusaka worked as a research coordinator in the Oral History research cluster in 2014-15.

Elena is a Research Coordinator for the Oral History Cluster Lead. For the past four years, Elena has been working with community-based projects such as Chinese Canadian Stories, asiancanadianwiki.org, and the UBC Japanese Canadian Students Tribute. Elena completed an M.A. at the University of Toronto in 2013, writing a research paper on race, memory, and late 1990s commemoration at the Canadian Vietnam War Veterans’ Memorial. Elena pursues research on war, gender, and memory from a feminist perspective. Her current projects can be viewed on Behance.