The DEFY Undergraduate Research Fellowships provide support for USC undergraduate students doing research focused on the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and/or other unique USC resources and collections during the summer. The fellowship is open to USC undergraduate students of all disciplines. Award decisions for the DEFY fellowships will be based on the originality of the research proposal and the centrality of USC resources to the research project.
The DEFY Undergraduate Research Fellowships provide support for USC undergraduate students doing research focused on the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and/or other unique USC resources and collections during the summer. The fellowship is open to USC undergraduate students of all disciplines. Award decisions for the DEFY fellowships will be based on the originality of the research proposal and the centrality of USC resources to the research project.
Nohab Ayoub is a junior at USC majoring in Law, History and Culture and minoring in Middle East Studies. During her month-long fellowship, Ayoub watched dozens of testimonies ...
During his month-long fellowship, Williams, a junior history major at USC, built on the research he began with Center director, Wolf Gruner, about prisoner escapes...
Nisha Kale is a USC undergraduate student who is double majoring in Neuroscience and Law, History, and Culture. The DEFY Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship allowed...
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Publication Type | Title | Format | Year |
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| Avila, Lorena, Nancy Nicholls, and Yael Siman | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
"Migration Narratives of Holocaust Survivors in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico." In Lessons and Legacies XIV: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Tim Cole and Simone Gigliotti. Northwestern University Press. |
Article | 2020 |
| Bartov, Omer | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz. Simon&Schuster. |
Book | 2018 |
| Bothe, Alina | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Duale Digitale Erinnerung - Perspektiven und Wirksamkeit von Gender im Visual History Archive.” In Geschlecht und Erinnerung im digitalen Zeitalter: Neue Perspektiven auf Zeiteuglnnenarchive, edited by Alina Bothe and Christina Isabel Brüning, pp. 95-134. LIT Verlag Muenster. |
Article | 2015 |
| Bothe, Alina | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Zeugnisse Überlebender der Shoah in den Digitalen Medien: Eine quellenkritische Reflexion.” In Zeugnisformen: Berichte, künstlerische Werke, Erzählungen von NS-Verfolgten, edited by Davi Knellessen and Ralf Possekel, pp. 57-68. BoD - Books on Demand. |
Article | 2016 |
| Brackney, Kathryn | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Otherworldly Horizons: An Alternative History of Holocaust Consciousness". Yale University. |
PhD Dissertation | 2019 |
| Cole, Tim, and Alberto Giordano | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Places of the Holocaust: Towards a model of GIS of place.” Transactions in GIS 24(4): 842-857. |
Article | 2019 |
| Curry, Tommy | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
Thinking through the silence: theorizing the rape of Jewish males during the Holocaust through survivor testimonies, in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2020.1843824. |
Article | 2020 |
| Feferman, Kiril | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
"Save Your Souls: Jewish Conversion and Survival in the Occupied Soviet Territories During the Holocaust." Modern Judaism 39(2): 184-204. |
Article | 2019 |
| Feferman, Kiril | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
Dwelling at the Foot of a Volcano? Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust in the North Caucasus. In C. Brooks & K. Feferman (Eds.), Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus (pp. 48-68). Boydell & Brewer. |
Article | 2020 |
| Florczyk, Piotr | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
From the Annals of Kraków. University of Washington Press. |
Article | 2020 |
| Klein, Shira | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
Book | 2017 |
| Knowles, Anne Kelly, Paul B. Jaskot, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
"Mind the Gap: Reading across the Holocaust Testimonial Archive. In Lessons and Legacies XIV: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Tim Cole and Simone Gigliotti. Northwestern University Press. |
Article | 2020 |
| Le Noc, Maël, Alberto Giordano, and Tim Cole | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“The Geography of the Holocaust in Italy: Spatiotemporal Patterns of Arrests for Families and Individuals and a Conceptual Model.” The Professional Geographer, DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2020.1758572. |
Article | 2020 |
| Lower, Wendy, and Lauren Faulkner Rossi |
Lessons and Legacies XII: New Directions in Holocaust Research and Education. Northwestern University Press. |
Book | 2017 | |
| McBride, Jared | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Peasants into Perpetrators: The OUN-UPA and the Ethnic Cleansing of Volhynia, 1943-1944,” Slavic Review 75(3): 630-54. |
Article | 2016 |
| Mizrahi, Erin | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
"Witnessing Silence: Testimony, Performance, and the Poetics of the Unspeakable." University of Southern California. |
PhD Dissertation | 2018 |
| Nickel, Toni | Other VHA-based Publications |
The Impact of Women on the Organization of the Kindertransport: an Examination of the Historical Record Primarily Utilizing Oral History. Undergraduate research scholars thesis. Texas A&M University. |
2017 | |
| Rebrova, Irina | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
"Traumatische Kindheit: Holocaust und Ueberlebenspraktiken Juedischer Kinder in den Besetzen Gebieten des Nordkaukasus." In Kindheiten im Zweiten Weltkrieg, edited by Francesca Weil, Andre Postert, and Alfons Kenkmann, pp. 393-410. Dresden: Hannah-Arendt Instituts fuer Totalitarismusforschung un der TU Dresden. |
Article | 2018 |
| Rebrova, Irina | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Memory Politics about the Holocaust in the Soviet and Russian Discourses: the Case of the North Caucasus”. |
PhD Dissertation | 2019 |
| Rebrova, Irina | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
Reconstructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory. The Case of the North Caucasus. De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
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Book | 2020 |
| Rebrova, Irina | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“We Were Saved Because the Occupation Lasted Only Six Months”: (Self-)Reflection on Survival Strategies during the Holocaust in the North Caucasus. In C. Brooks & K. Feferman (Eds.), Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus (pp. 218-240). Boydell & Brewer. |
Article | 2020 |
| Seipp, Adam | Other VHA-based Publications |
“Buchenwald Stories: Testimony, Military History, and the American Encounter with the Holocaust.” Journal of Military History 79(3): 721-44. |
Article | 2015 |
| Siman, Yael, and Daniela Gleizer | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
"Holocaust Survivors in Mexico: Intersecting and Conflicting Narratives of Open Doors, Welcoming Society and Personal Hardships," in Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations, edited by Navras J. Aafreedi and Priya Singh. Oxon and New York: Routledge. |
Article | 2021 |
| Toth, Gabor (with Stephen Naron) | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Let Them Speak: An Effort to Reconnect Communities of Survivors in a Digital Archive.” In Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age, edited by Eve Monique Zucker and David J. Simon, pp. 71-94. Palgrave Macmillan. |
Article | 2020 |
| Walch, Theresa | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Degenerate Spaces: The Coordination of Space in Nazi Germany.” |
PhD Dissertation | 2018 |
| Zalewska, Maria | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“#Holocaust: Rethinking the Relationship Between Spaces of Memory and Places of Commemoration in The Digital Age.” University of Southern California. |
PhD Dissertation | 2019 |