Sara R. Horowitz, Ph. D.

Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence,

Sara R. Horowitz is Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at York University and an esteemed scholar of the Holocaust. She has been a Professor in the Division of Humanities and Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University since 2002, and is a former director of the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. Prior to moving to Toronto, Professor Horowitz served as an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware, where she helped establish the Jewish Studies Program and served as its first director.

Peter Hayes, Ph.D.

Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence,

Professor Peter Hayes is a world-renowned scholar of the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Educated at Bowdoin College, the University of Oxford (Balliol College), and Yale University, Peter Hayes is Professor Emeritus of History and German and Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University.

The Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence fellowship is the Center's most prestigious invitation-only fellowship. It enables one esteemed senior international scholar per year to spend a two-week residency at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Shoah Foundation for consultation, conversation, and research with the Holocaust and genocide research resources at USC, including the USC Shoah Foundation VIsual History Archive.

Marion Kaplan, Ph.D.

Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence,

Professor Marion Kaplan is a world-renowned scholar of German-Jewish history. Educated at Rutgers University and Columbia University, Marion Kaplan is the Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University. She previously taught at Queens College, the City University of New York, and has served as visiting lecturer at Columbia University and Princeton University.