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Alexander Grass Memorial Fellow September 1, 2024–April 30, 2025
Project: “Palaces of Memory: Polish Jewish Post-Holocaust Memorial Books”
Sosland Foundation Fellow February 1, 2025 - May 31, 2025
Project: “Representations of the Holocaust in Argentine Theatre”
Manya Friedman Memorial Fellow January 1, 2025–April 30, 2025
Project: “Gender and the Representation of Violence in the Bucharest Pogrom”
Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance Research Fellow September 1, 2024–April 30, 2025
Project: “Reconceptualizing Resistance: Zionist Networks of Rescue and Resistance in Wartime Hungary”
Sosland Foundation Fellow September 1, 2024 - October 31, 2024
Project: "The Politics of Movement in Tangier: A Study of Jewish Holocaust Refugees”
Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow September 1, 2024–April 30, 2025
Project: “The Romani People Before, During, and After the Porrajmos: Daily Life and Material Culture Through the Visual Heritage of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (1926-1946)”
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public History July 24, 2023–July 24, 2025
Project: “Chinese Nationals in Nazi and Postwar Germany”
Leon and Edith Milman Fellow June 1, 2025 – July 30, 2025
Project: “The Philippines as a Place of Transit and Destination: Jewish, Russian, and Chinese Displaced Persons in Search of Old and New Homes, 1945-1952”
Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024 – April 30, 2025
Project: “The Life, Martyrdom, and Death Cult of Fascist Ion Motza in Interwar Europe”
Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History-Munich & Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Exchange Scholar Fellowship January 1, 2025 – April 30, 2025
Project: “Prisoner Societies in Inmates’ Art: Visual Testimonies from the Buchenwald Concentration Camp”
Sosland Foundation Fellow January 1, 2025 - August 31, 2025
Project: “‘Always one step away from death, always afraid’: Jewish Women and Girls who ‘Passed’ as Polish-Christian Forced Laborers in Germany during the Holocaust”
Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024–April 30, 2025
Project: “Sexual Assault and Child Sexual Abuse during the Holocaust.”
Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024-April 30, 2025
Project: “Evacuees ‘from Abroad’: Latvian Jews on the Soviet Home Front, 1941–1945”
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public History August 12, 2024 – August 12, 2026
Project: “In the Shadow of the Honor Courts: Lithuanian Jewish Survivors as Agents of Early Holocaust Knowledge”
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Visiting Fellow December 1, 2024–March 31, 2025
Project: “Holocaust by Bullets Killing Site in Trial Documents, Collective and Environmental Memory: Case Study of Krępiecki Forest”
Sosland Foundation Fellowship January 1, 2025–April 30, 2025
Project: “‘Who is an Austrian?’: Refugees in Post-World War II China and Austria”
Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024 - April 30, 2025
Project: “A Global Microhistory of German-Jewish Refugees in Harbin: Integrating East Asian Refugee Communities into the History of the Holocaust.”
J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence September 3, 2024 – December 31, 2024 and May 15, 2025 – August 15, 2025
Project: “Mustergau: Nazi Germanization Policy in the Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939-1945”
Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus Endowment Fellow January 1, 2025 - August 31, 2025
Project: “(Non)Children's Voices of Jewish Families during the Holocaust in Ukraine"
Alexander Grass Memorial Fellow January 1, 2025–April 31, 2025
Project: “Protecting the Volk: The Development of the Female Police from Weimar and Nazi to Postwar Germany”
American University and Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship August 1, 2022–July 31, 2025
Project: “Photography and the Making of the Nazi Racial Fantasy, 1933-1950”
Matthew Family Fellow September 1, 2024–December 31, 2024
Project: “Landsmanshaftn as a Means of migrant Self-help and communities of mourning: A transnational History of Eastern European Jewish Hometown Associations during and after the Shoah”
Sosland Foundation Fellow September 1, 2024–February 28, 2025
Project: “Mass Conceptions: The Holocaust and the Iconology of Crowd Design”
Robert A. Savitt Fellow September 1, 2024–December 31, 2024
Project: “Material Legacies of Aid to Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland”
Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024–April 30, 2025
Project: “Jews Finding Shelter Among Roma in German-occupied Poland during World War II.”
Bella and Murray Ressler Digital Humanities Fellow September 1, 2024– April 30, 2025
Project: "Printed Voices and Hidden Realities: Tracing Queer Spaces and Cultures from Weimar to War's End in Germany"
Phyllis Greenberg and Richard D. Heideman Invitational Fellowship July 1, 2024-September 31, 2024
Project: "Between Periphery and Center: The Return of Jewish Children Hidden in Roman Catholic Religious Institutions in France and Belgium"
Alexander Grass Memorial Fellow September 1, 2024–December 31, 2024
Project: “Bonds of Intimacy and Dependency: Survival Strategies of Intermarried Families in Nazi-Dominated Europe”
Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024-April 30, 2025
Project: “Mountains and Mountaineering as a Theme in Jewish Lives in the Holocaust and Holocaust Memory”
Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024 – April 30, 2025
Project: “Family Histories: Child Survivors and Memories of the Holocaust”
Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow Fellowship Period: November 1, 2024–April 30, 2025
Project: “Between the Holocaust and the Cold War: U.S. Army War Crimes Investigations in the Soviet Zone of Germany, 1945-1947”
Kurt and Thea Sonnenmark Memorial Fellow June 1, 2025–July 31, 2025
Project: “Images Displaced and Disguised: The Holocaust Text in Eastern European Art”
Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow January 1, 2025–August 31, 2025
Project: “Thick Sociability in German-occupied Vilnius”
Randolph and Elizabeth Braham Fellow January 1, 2025–April 30, 2025
Project: “Prolonged Genocide: Sterilization and Castration Abuse of the Holocaust"
William J. Lowenberg Memorial Fellow on America, the Holocaust, and the Jews September 1, 2024–April 30, 2025
Project: “Papers and Trails: The Holocaust and U.S. Immigration Control”
Ina Levine Invitational Scholar-in-Residence October 1, 2024–June 30, 2025
Project: “Migration and Holocaust: Transnational Trajectories of Lubartów Jews Throughout the World (1920s-1950s)”
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