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Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards Inaugural Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship to Virginia Bullington


Virginia Bullington, a sophomore at USC from Nantucket, Massachusetts majoring in American Studies and Narrative Studies, has been chosen as the first-ever Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. Read More

Sanna Stegmaier Awarded 2018-2019 Center Graduate Research Fellow Honorable Mention


Sanna Stegmaier, a second-year joint PhD student in German Studies and Cultural Studies at King’s College, London and Humboldt University, Berlin, has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2018-2019 Center Graduate Research Fellowship competition at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She will arrive at the Center for her two-week residency near the end of August and in addition to conducting research in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, she will consult with staff from the Dimensions in Testimony team. Read More

Librarian's Corner: MSU Librarian Deborah Margolis Visits the Center for Advanced Genocide Research


This article is part of a newsletter series introducing librarians who are advocates for the VHA at their institutions. Read More

Visiting Scholars Spend Summer Exploring the Visual History Archive


This summer, the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is hosting three visiting scholars, who have traveled from across the country to conduct research in the Visual History Archive and consult with the staff and other researchers at the Center, as well as staff as across the Institute. Read More

Women at Nuremberg: Vivien Spitz


Editor’s Note: USC Shoah Foundation is spotlighting the under-examined efforts of women at the Nuremberg Trials in an eight-part series of stories that each focuses on the contribution of a different woman. Read More

USC literature professor receives USC Shoah Foundation grant for innovative use of poetry by genocide survivors


EDITOR’S NOTE: USC Shoah Foundation this year launched an initiative to give out small grants to USC professors of any discipline who incorporate the Institute’s archive of genocide-survivor testimony into their coursework in a way that emphasizes diversity and inclusion. This is the third story in a series of five about the 2017 recipients. Read More

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