Lynne Viola


Lynne Viola is a scholar on the Soviet Union. She is a professor at the University of Toronto and has written four books and 30 articles. In 2014, she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Thomas Henry Pentland Molson Prize. In 2019, she was awarded a Killam Prize.

Early life

Raised in Nutley, New Jersey, she graduated from Nutley High School in 1973.
Viola graduated from Barnard College in 1978 and received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1984.