Martha Stroud

Martha Stroud manages the day-to-day operations of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, which advances innovative interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and other genocides and promotes use of the Visual History Archive in research and teaching. She joined the Center in 2015 after earning her PhD in Medical Anthropology at UC Berkeley. An anthropologist with special interests in the anthropology of genocide, psychological anthropology, and Indonesia, Martha’s research focuses on the Indonesian mass killings and detentions of 1965-1966, their aftermath, and the ways in which the events of 1965-1966 continue to emerge in daily life in Indonesia today, over 50 years after the killings first began.

Articles by Martha Stroud

2021 Lev Student Research Fellows Share Their Research With Testimonies

"Research With Testimonies: Featuring the Center's 2021 Lev Student Research Fellows”
Nicholas Bredie (USC PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing) and Atharva Tewari (USC undergraduate student, Global Studies and Journalism major)
2021 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow 
April 12, 2022

Barnabas Balint Lectures About Growing Up Jewish During the Holocaust In Hungary

"Growing Up Jewish During the Holocaust in Hungary”
Barnabas Balint (PhD candidate in History, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK) 
2021-2022 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow 
March 29, 2022
 

Shapiro Scholar Sara R. Horowitz Lectures About How Holocaust Survivors Craft Their Stories

"Reclaiming the 'Ruins of Memory': Gender, Agency, and Imagination in Stories of the Shoah”
Sara R. Horowitz  (York University, Canada) 
2020-2021 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence 
March 23, 2022


Lilia Tomchuk Lectures About Jewish Women's Agency in Transnistria During the Holocaust

"Shades of Agency: Choice, Survival & Resistance of Jewish Women During the Holocaust in Transnistria”
Lilia Tomchuk (PhD candidate in History, Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt, Germany) 
2021-2022 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow 
March 2, 2022


The Center Searches for Photographs of Nazi Mass Deportations As Part of the #LastSeen Project

The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research is proud to announce its cooperation with a German government funded multi-institutional Holocaust research project entitled #LastSeen - Pictures of Nazi Deportations.

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine Lectures About Linguistic and Cultural Genocide and Redress in Canada

“Redress for Linguistic Genocide in Canada”

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine (University of Winnipeg/San Diego State University)

February 17, 2022

Call for Applications: Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship Summer 2022

 

Call for Applications
 

Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship

Summer 2022

 

Barnabas Balint Awarded 2021-2022 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

Barnabas Balint, a PhD candidate at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, UK, has been awarded the 2021-2022 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. He will be in residence at the Center during Spring 2022 in order to conduct research for his dissertation, which is entitled “Accelerated Development into Adulthood: The Changing Roles of Young Hungarians During the Holocaust.”

Charlotte Kiechel Awarded 2021-2022 Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies

Charlotte Kiechel, a Ph.D. candidate in Global History at Yale University, has been awarded the 2021-2022 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies. She will be in residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in Spring 2022 to conduct research related to her dissertation, which is entitled “The Politics of Comparison: Holocaust Memory and Visions of ‘Third World’ Suffering, 1950-1995.”

Lilia Tomchuk Awarded 2021-2022 Greenberg Research Fellowship

Lilia Tomchuk, a PhD candidate at the Fritz Bauer Institute at Goethe University Frankfurt, has been awarded the 2021-2022 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She will be in residence at the Center in Spring 2022 in order to conduct research for her dissertation, which is entitled “Dimensions of Jewish Women's Experiences During the Holocaust in Occupied Ukraine.”