A total of 666 courses at 59 universities have drawn upon the Institute’s testimonies in more than 25 academic disciplines. The courses demonstrate the range of topics and themes that the Institute’s archive of video testimonies can help illuminate. Use the table below to see what the trends are for testimony-enhanced courses taught at colleges and universities around the world.
College Course Development
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Faculty Name:
Dana Powell, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Institution Name:
Appalachian State University
This upper-level undergraduate seminar focused on the field of Native American/Indigenous studies as both a body of critical theory and a form of cultural critique. Interdisciplinary in nature, the seminar examined the theories and major questions in the field, with a deliberate departure from a typical area-studies approach. Major emphasis was put on settlement and resistance in North America, but also in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania.
List of courses taught around the world using archive testimony
Institution | Course Title | Department/Discipline | Term | Instructor |
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Albion College | Holocaust Studies | Interdisciplinary | 2009 Spring | Frank Kelemen |
American University of Paris | Memory, Testimony and the Shoah | Psychology | 2016 Spring | Brian Schiff |
Brandeis University | Writing the Holocaust | English | 2012 Fall | Dawn Skorczewski |
Brown University | Freshmen Seminar: The Holocaust in Historical Perspective | History | 2009 Fall | Omer Bartov |
Brown University | Graduate Reading Seminar: Interpretations of History: Modern Germany | History | 2009 Fall | Omer Bartov |
Brown University | Media and Memory: Representing the Holocaust | Modern Culture & Media | 2009 Fall | Lynne Joyrich |
Brown University | Drifting Cities. Multiethnic Societies from Empire to Nation-State | History | 2014 Spring | Paris Papamichos-Chronakis |
Brown University | Drifting Cities. Multiethnic Societies from Empire to Nation-State | History | 2013 Spring | Paris Papamichos-Chronakis |
California State University, Bakersfield | Religious Studies and the Quest for Meaning | Religious Studies | 2007 Fall | Liora Gubkin |
California State University, Bakersfield | Religious Studies and the Quest for Meaning | Religious Studies | 2008 Spring | Liora Gubkin |
California State University, Bakersfield | Religious Studies and the Quest for Meaning | Religious Studies | 2009 Winter | Liora Gubkin |
Central European University | Gendered Memories of the Holocaust | Gender Studies, History | 2016 Fall | Andrea Peto |
Central European University | Gendered Memories of the Holocaust | Gender Studies | 2015 Fall | Andrea Peto |
Central European University | Qualitative Methods: Interviewing and Oral History | Gender Studies, History | 2016 Winter | Andrea Peto |
Central European University | Intimate Recording and Readings of Lives | Gender Studies | 2014 Winter | Andrea Peto |
Central European University | Gendered Memories of the Holocaust | Gender Studies | 2014 Fall | Andrea Peto |
Central European University | Holocaust, memory, gender | Gender Studies, History, Jewish Studies Nationalism Studies | 2009 Winter | Andrea Peto |
Central European University | Holocaust, memory, gender | Gender Studies, History, Jewish Studies Nationalism Studies | 2010 Fall | Andrea Peto |
Central European University | Gendered Memories of the Holocaust | Gender Studies, History, Jewish Studies, Political Science, Public Policy | 2013 Fall | Andrea Peto |
Central European University | Testimonies and Teaching: New Sources and Methodologies for Jewish Studies | Jewish Studies, Gender Studies | 2010 Spring | Andrea Peto |
Central European University | Social Memory | Sociology and Social Anthropology | 2010 Winter | Vlad Naumescu |
Central European University | Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence | Gender Studies, History, Jewish Studies, Political Science, Public Policy | 2011 Fall | Andrea Peto |
Central European University | Qualitative Methods in Social Science Research: Oral History | Gender Studies, History | 2011 Winter | Andrea Peto |
Central European University | Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence | Gender Studies, HIstory, Jewish Studies, Political Science, Public Policy | 2012 Fall | Andrea Peto |
Central European University | Interrogating the Archive: Preserving and Interpreting Knowledges of the Past | Gender Studies, History, Jewish Studies, Medieval Studies | 2012 Fall | Adrea Peto, Leslie Morris (University of Minnesota), Mary Jo Maynes (University of Minnesota) |
Centre Marc Bloch | Le nazisme et les régimes autoritaires | History | 2010 Winter | Florent Brayard |
Chapman University | Germany and the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to the Final Solution | History, Religion | 2011 Fall | Marilyn Harran |
Chapman University | The Holocaust: Memoirs and Histories | History | 2016 Spring | Jeffrey Koerber |
Chapman University | Germany and the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to the Final Solution | History, Religion | 2012 Fall | Marilyn Harran |
Chapman University | The Holocaust in History and Film | History | 2016 Spring | Jeffrey Koerber |
Chapman University | The Holocaust in History and Film | History | 2016 Fall | Jeffrey Koerber |
Chapman University | Germany and the Holocaust | History | 2016 Fall | Marilyn Harran |
Chapman University | Topics in the Holocaust: Perpetrators, Witnesses and Rescuers | History | 2016 Fall | Jeffrey Koerber |
Chapman University | Holocaust: Memoirs and Histories | History | 2014 Spring | Jeffrey Koerber |
Chapman University | Germany and the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to the Final Solution | History, Religion | 2014 Fall | Marilyn Harran |
Chapman University | The Holocaust in History and Film | History | 2014 Fall | Jeffrey Koerber |
Chapman University | Holocaust: Memoirs and Histories | History | 2013 Spring | Jeffrey Koerber |
Chapman University | Germany and the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to the Final Solution | History | 2013 Fall | Marilyn Harran |
Chapman University | The Holocaust in History and Film | History | 2013 Fall | Jeffrey Koerber |
Chapman University | The Holocaust in History and Film | History | 2015 Fall | Jeffrey Koerber |
Charles University | Dealing with Guilt and Reconciliation in Pastoral Work | Protestant Theology | 2011 Winter | Petr Jandejsek |
Charles University | Introduction to Hebraistic studies | Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies | 2011 Winter | Jiřina Šedinová |
Charles University | Sociological Data and Data Archives | Historical Sociology | 2011 Winter | Martin Vávra |
Charles University | The Educational Role of the Museum | Civic Education and Philosophy | 2011 Winter | Markéta Dvořáková |
Charles University | The Holocaust and Its Memory in the Czech Lands | Institute of Czech History | 2011 Winter | Michal Frankl |
Charles University | Collective Memory and Its Examination | Historical Sociology | 2012 Summer | Jiří Šubrt |
Charles University | Identity and Memory: The Sociological View | Sociology | 2012 Summer | Jakub Mlynář |
Charles University | Natural Language Processing Applications | Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics | 2012 Summer | Vladislav Kuboň |
Charles University | Prolegomena to Contemporary History (Paradigms, Methods, Sources, Specific Features) | Oral History, Contemporary History | 2012 Summer | Pavel Mücke |
Charles University | Family in transition (Postsocialism and Eastern European family) | General Anthropology | 2012 Winter | Petra Ezzeddine |
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Dana Powell, Associate Professor of AnthropologyAppalachian State University
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Alyssa Maria MathiasUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Robin Kirk; Andrea Peto; Peter Berczi; Robert ParnicaDuke University; Central European University, Open Society Archives
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Colin Keaveney, Assistant Professor, French and ItalianUniversity of Southern California
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Dawn Skorczewski; Bettine Siertsema; Dienke HondiusBrandeis University; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Aletta Forrás-BiróEötvös Loránd University
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Carolyn Ellis, Professor of Communication and SociologyUniversity of South Florida
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Adam Seipp, Assistant Professor of HistoryTexas A&M University
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Martin Lücke, Professor of Didactics of HistoryFreie Universität Berlin
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Roy Schwartzman, Professor of Communication StudiesUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro