Maria Zalewska is a Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and a 2016-2018 Mellon Ph.D. Fellow in the Digital Humanities. Her research interests include cinematic representations of the Holocaust; documentary film; national and transnational modes and media of memorialization; digital humanities; politics of technologized memory; place and space in cinema; history as film/film as history; and political economy of film. Her dissertation project, “#Holocaust: Rethinking the Relationship Between Spaces of Memory and Places of Commemoration in The Digital Age,” focuses on the relationship between interactivity, (documentary) film studies, and Holocaust memory. She is the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research’s 2017 Graduate Student Fellow. In 2009-2010, she worked for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Foundation. Since 2010, she has continued to work for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Foundation on a volunteer basis.