Simone Gigliotti

Visiting Scholar, 2014, USC Shoah Foundation

Currently: Senior Lecturer in European History, History Program, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Simone Gigliotti earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she focused her research on the psychological and interpersonal consequences of forced migration and displacement of marginalized populations during the Holocaust. Her research interests concern the causes, processes and effects of state-sponsored, ethnic and religious violence, especially as it relates to the forced movement and confinement of Jewish and non-Jewish survivors in and from Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s. Dr. Gigliotti is currently working on two book-length projects that focus on displaced personhood through the analysis of archival, oral and testimonial sources. The first, titled Displaced Cinema: Routes to Home and Humanity after the Holocaust examines how humanitarian organizations, relief and Jewish aid organizations used the moving image to construct Jewish displaced persons as a new migratory category, the "home-seeker." The second, a book and eventual film titled Colonial Others: Oral Histories of a Holocaust Transmigration aims to uncover relationships between the mobility and ethnic conflict during war of Central European Jewish refugees and the decolonization of ethnically diverse societies of South-East Asia and the Caribbean. 

Selected Publications

• "A Mobile Holocaust? Rethinking Testimony with Cultural Geography" in Claudio Minca and Paolo Giaccaria (Eds.), Hitler's Geographies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016) 
• The Memorialization of Genocide (London: Routledge, 2015)
• "To Whom do the Children Belong? Genocidal Displacement in Europe and Australia," in Cathie Carmichael and Richard Maguire (eds.), The Routledge History of Genocide (London; New York: Routledge, 2015)
• Co-edited with C.S. Gould, and J. Golomb Ethics, Art and Representations of the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Berel Lang (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014)

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Peg LeVine

Center for Advanced Genocide Research Fellow, 2014

Currently: Associate Professor in Global and Population Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia 

Peg LeVine received her Doctorate of Clinical Psychology (Ed.D.) from Virginia Tech university and her Ph.D. in medical anthropology from Monash University. As an interdisciplinary scholar in traumatic psychology, anthropology, Asian studies, and sculpting, her work focuses on "Ritualcide," a concept that she introduced as the systematic erosion of access to spiritual rituals, places, objects, and physical-metaphysical arbitrators. Dr. LeVine has conducted extensive ethnographic studies while travelling with Cambodians to sites of ritual and cultural destruction during the Khemer Rouge genocide from 1975-1979 which killed between 1.5 - 3 million people. She is currently expanding the field of response oriented Morita therapy, originally started in Japan, and applying her methods to aid survivors of sex trafficking in Southeast Asia. She is a consultant for the International Red Cross, Foundation of Survivors of Torture, and trains health professionals working with asylum seekers in detention. 

Selected Publications

• Love and Dread in Cambodia: Weddings and Births and Ritual Harm Under the Khemer Roughe. (Singapore; Honolulu: National University of Singapore Press and University of Hawaii Press, 2010)
• LeVine, P., & Matsuda, Y. (2003). Reformulation of Diagnosis with Attention to Cultural Dynamics: Case of a Japanese Woman Hospitalized in Melbourne, Australia. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 27 (2), 221-243.
• LeVine, P. (2003). Cultural Implications for Morita Therapy in the Austral-Asia Region: Treating Anxiety with Dissociation Related to Cumulative Trauma. Psychiatria et Neurologia JapnicaI, 105, 567-575.
• Morita, S. (Author), LeVine, P. (Ed), Kndo, A. (Trans), Morita Therapy: Treatment for Anxiety-Based Disorders. (New York: State University of New York Press, 1998). 

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Jared McBride

Margee and Douglass Greenberg Fellow, USC Shoah Foundation, 2014

Currently: Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbia University 

Jared McBride earned his Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied ethnic diversity and mass violence in Nazi-occupied Volhynia, Ukraine, during the Second World War. His work specializes in the regions of Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe in the 20th century and research interests include borderland studies, nationalist movements, mass violence and genocide, the Holocaust, inter-ethnic conflict, and war crimes prosecution. Currently, Dr. McBride is writing a book titled Killing Neighbors: The Undoing of Multi-Ethnic Western Ukraine, 1941-1944. As an extension of his dissertation research, this text sets out to investigate the region of Volhynia in Western Ukraine during Nazi occupation. One of the most violent regions in all of Eastern Europe, it was home to the genocide of the Jewry, Soviet partisan warfare, a Ukrainian nationalist uprising, brutal Nazi occupation policies and widespread inter-ethnic violence. Through extensive archival research and recently opened KGB archives in Ukraine, this work has the potential to inform studies of ethnic and political violence in borderland regions beyond Ukraine, as well as contribute to discussions in genocide studies and social scientific approaches to the study of violence. 

Selected Publications

• "Remembering and Forgetting the Malyn Massacre: Memory, Ethnicity and the Second World War in Eastern Europe" (Carl Beck Papers, forthcoming 2015).
• "To Be Stored Forever" [Book review of Taras Bul'ba-Borovets': Dokumenty. Statti. Lysty, ed. Volodymyr Serhiichuk (Kyiv, 2011)], Ab Imperio 1 (2012). 
• "Olevsk Ghetto" by Jared McBride and Alexander Kruglov for The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Vol. 2, ed. Martin Dean (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012), p.1553-1555
• "Peasants into Perpetrators: The OUN-UPA and the Ethnic Cleansing of Volhynia, 1943-1944" (Slavic Review, under review)

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