In the annual distinguished lecture, Professor Sarah Gensburger will share the research from the recently published book Appartements témoins. La spoliation des locataires juifs à Paris, 1940-1946, co-written with Isabelle Backouche and Eric le Bourhis (La Découverte, 2025). The book was awarded the Albertine Translation Grant 2025 and will be published in English by Rutgers University Press in 2027.
Sarah Gensburger, Professor of Political Science and History at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Sciences Po Paris, will serve as the 2025-2026 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She will spend over a week in residence at the Center in April and will deliver the Annual Sara and Asa Shapiro Lecture entitled “Homes as Witnesses of the Holocaust in Paris” on April 14, 2026.
USC Shoah Foundation and the Big Ten Conference provide Trojans with the opportunity to visit historical sites of the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement.
The children of Auschwitz block 10.
El Paso Holocaust Museum (EPHM) is proud to announce the unveiling of an exciting new interactive biography as part of its Dimensions in Testimony exhibition from the USC Shoah Foundation. The testimony of Dr. Edith Eger, who once called El Paso home, will premiere at EPHM during the week of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27-31, 2026.
Dr. Relihan is a social psychologist whose research examines how social identity, motivated reasoning, and moral perspectives shape responses to threatening information and societal challenges. His current work focuses on experimentally testing and applying psychological inoculation (pre-bunking) interventions to reduce extremism and polarization, with particular attention to antisemitism. He is also exploring how artificial intelligence can be responsibly integrated into prevention and resilience-building efforts.