The Rebel Academic: The Life and Work of David Cesarani (Summary)

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research organized a symposium in the Fall to honor the work of leading Holocaust scholar David Cesarani from Great Britain, who died just weeks after being named by the USC Shoah Foundation the inaugural Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence.

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 A.I. and Manet Schepps Foundation Teaching Fellow Program at Texas A&M University

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2017-2018 A.I. and Manet Schepps Foundation Teaching Fellow Program that will provide support for one member of the Texas A&M University faculty to integrate testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA) into a new or existing course. The fellowship is open to all disciplinary and methodological approaches and will be awarded on a competitive basis to the most interesting project.

Call for Applications: 2017-2018 International Teaching Fellowship

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2017-2018 International Teaching Fellowship that will provide support for university and college faculty to integrate testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA) into new or existing courses. This fellowship is only available to faculty at universities and colleges that subscribe to the VHA, either directly or through ProQuest.

Olga Burkhardt is a German journalist and scholar with a profound interest in the long-term impact of the Holocaust and other mass crimes on those individuals and groups who lived through them. Olga holds a bachelors degree in English and Sociology from Stuttgart University and a Masters degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of St Andrews. Currently, she is working on her Ph.D., also at the University of St Andrews, on healing and reconciliation in the aftermath of mass atrocity and genocide.

Shira Klein

Even after using testimony in her teaching and research for several years, Professor Shira Klein still discovered something new during her tenure as the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research 2016-2017 International Teaching Fellow.

The annual International Teaching Fellowship is open to professors who wish to incorporate testimony into their courses and research. The chosen fellow has the opportunity to visit the Center and consult with its staff and gives a public lecture at USC about their work.

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