Scholarship and Public Engagement

Promoting, Producing, and Sharing Forward-Looking Research

The Division of Academic Programs supports, promotes, and produces interdisciplinary scholarship and research about the Holocaust and its aftermath. Our programs include academic publications and public-facing writing, research fellowships and colloquia, lecture series, and collaborations with university faculty and students. We welcome scholars and the general public to events where we translate our rich body of research and scholarship into easily accessible resources.

Learn about some of our programs and activities below.

Upcoming Lectures

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Pasadena Armenian Genocide Commemoration: Resilience in the Face of Genocide — Then and Now
Genocide Awareness Month Event
On April 21, the Pasadena Armenian Coalition will host a community-wide event at the Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial Monument to commemorate the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The event will pay tribute to the enduring strength and resiliency of the survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, while honoring the memory of the more...
  • April 21, 2024
  • Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial Monument, 85 E. Holly St, Pasadena, California, United States
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May
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The Specter of Persecution: Queer Women in the Third Reich
USC Shoah Foundation Event
Samuel Clowes Huneke, author of the award-winning States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany, uncovers stories about queer women during the Third Reich—their treatment in society and opportunities to resist.…
  • May 1, 2024
  • Online Event
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Jun
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Antisemitism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
USC Shoah Foundation Event
At the close of World War II, the Allies labeled survivors of the Holocaust as either displaced persons (DPs), refugees, or stateless persons. These categories included Jews, prisoners of war, Roma and Sinti, forced laborers, and perpetrators who used the chaos to hide their identity. But as the scale of the humanitarian disaster became more...
  • June 4, 2024
  • Online Event
L-R: Rt Hon Lord Pickles; Ellen Germain; Dr. Robert J. Williams. Photo: Kim Fox Photography
Events

We invite scholars, students, and the public to a wide range of events — webinars, lectures, workshops, seminars, and colloquia — that explore the interdisciplinary histories of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

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Scholarship

We offer colloquia and fellowships for graduate students and scholars that support research, grant access to the VHA, and connect students and scholars with the USC Shoah Foundation staff, who share their expertise in working with our collections.

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Azrieli Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates and Early-Career Scholars (Deadline: April 4, 2024)

Latest News

Azrieli Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates and Early-Career Scholars, 2024-2025
The Division of Academic Programs at the USC Shoah Foundation invites applications for its inaugural Azrieli Research Fellowships for PhD candidates and early-career scholars during the spring 2025 semester. Read More
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 9:44am
Azrieli Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates and Early-Career Scholars, 2024-2025
The Division of Academic Programs at the USC Shoah Foundation invites applications for its inaugural Azrieli Research Fellowships for PhD candidates and early-career scholars during the 2024-2025 academic year. Read More
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 3:14pm
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 Research and USC Shoah Foundation. He will deliver the Annual Sara and Asa Shapiro Lecture, entitled "Holocaust in Poland: New Research, New Findings", and spend a week in residence at the Center and USC Shoah Foundation in March 2023. Read More
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 4:07pm
USC Shoah Foundation Testimonies to Feature in Hebrew University Study on Survivor Narratives
USC Shoah Foundation has partnered with a group of scholars from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem to provide them with 1,000 transcripts from the Visual History Archive for a study that will analyze Holocaust survivor testimonies. Read More
Monday, June 6, 2022 - 4:17pm
Shapiro Scholar Sara R. Horowitz Lectures About How Holocaust Survivors Craft Their Stories
"Reclaiming the 'Ruins of Memory': Gender, Agency, and Imagination in Stories of the Shoah” Sara R. Horowitz  (York University, Canada)  2020-2021 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence  March 23, 2022 Read More
Friday, April 29, 2022 - 4:15pm
Visiting Scholar from Spain Exploring Roma, Sinti Testimonies in Visual History Archive
Annabel Carballo-Mesa is a PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona. Since January 17 she has been in Los Angeles conducting research with Visual History Archive (VHA) testimonies for a dissertation provisionally entitled “Na Bister! (Don’t Forget!) An Oral History of the Roma and Sinti Genocide”. Read More
Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 2:34pm

Our Current Fellows

Alexandra Birch

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Jadwiga Biskupska

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William Ross Jones

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Pavlo Khudish

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Johanna Lehr

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Victoria Van Orden Martínez

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Denisa Nešťáková

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Christina Wirth

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