Maël Le Noc is a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at Texas State University. He earned his undergraduate degrees in history and geography from the University of Rennes 2 in France. He received his MS in geography from Texas State University, where he wrote his thesis on family arrests and separation during the Holocaust in Italy, a work for which he was awarded the Outstanding Master's Thesis Awards in Digital Scholarship by the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools. Le Noc’s research focuses on  spatial aspects of the Holocaust and the working title of his dissertation is “Towards a geography of persecution: The case of the Arts-et-Métiers and the Enfants-Rouges quarters of the third arrondissement of Paris, 1940-1946”. He cooperates with several transdisciplinary research group, including the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative.