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Christina Wirth Awarded 2023-2024 Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Antisemitism Studies
Christina Wirth, a Ph.D. student at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, Germany, is to be the USC Shoah Foundation’s first Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Antisemitism Studies. She…
Friday, July 7, 2023
Clara Dijkstra Awarded 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies
Clara Dijkstra, a PhD candidate in History at the University of Cambridge, Christ’s College, has been awarded the 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies…
Friday, July 7, 2023
Brazilian Scholar Studies Testimonies Related to Anti-Nazi Resistance in Latin America
As the Nazis assumed power in Germany in 1933, many artists and intellectuals opposed to the regime sought refuge in Latin America, particularly in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
Raíssa Alonso,…
Thursday, April 20, 2023
New Mickey Shapiro Academic Chair to Deepen, Expand Study of Holocaust Education
USC Shoah Foundation and USC Rossier School of Education and its Centers EDGE and CANDLES yesterday held a special public convening to recognize the Mickey Shapiro Endowed Chair in Holocaust…
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Professor Jan Grabowski Named the 2022-2023 Shapiro Scholar in Residence
Professor Jan Grabowski, a distinguished scholar of the Holocaust in Poland will serve as the 2022-2023 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide…
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Professor Jan Grabowski Named the 2022-2023 Shapiro Scholar in Residence
Professor Jan Grabowski, a distinguished scholar of the Holocaust in Poland will serve as the 2022-2023 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide…
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Research Fellow Explores Treatment of Gender, Sexuality and Sexual Violence in VHA interviews
Carli Snyder is the 2022-2023 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies. Since the beginning of January, she has been in Los Angeles conducting research with Visual…
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Deadline Extended to February 15, 2023: Call for Applications for USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Antisemitism Studies
USC Shoah Foundation invites applications from advanced-level PhD candidates for the 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Antisemitism Studies.
The fellowship is…
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
U.K Scholar to Conduct Research at Institute on Memory and the Digital Age
USC Shoah Foundation today welcomes Dr. Victoria Walden, a senior lecturer from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, who will spend the next two weeks conducting research at the Institute…
Monday, October 31, 2022
Armenian Scholar Finds Lost Songs in USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive
Pardy Minassian’s childhood in Syria was suffused with sounds from Armenia, the result of her father’s collection of more than 500 audio and video interviews he conducted over the years with Armenian…
Tuesday, October 11, 2022