
2020-2021
Sara R. Horowitz is Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at York University and an esteemed scholar of the Holocaust. She has been a Professor in the Division of Humanities and Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University since 2002, and is a former director of the Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. Prior to moving to Toronto, Professor Horowitz served as an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware, where she helped establish the Jewish Studies Program and served as its first director.

2019-2020
Professor Peter Hayes is a world-renowned scholar of the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Educated at Bowdoin College, the University of Oxford (Balliol College), and Yale University, Peter Hayes is Professor Emeritus of History and German and Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University.
The Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence fellowship is the Center's most prestigious invitation-only fellowship. It enables one esteemed senior international scholar per year to spend a two-week residency at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Shoah Foundation for consultation, conversation, and research with the Holocaust and genocide research resources at USC, including the USC Shoah Foundation VIsual History Archive.
The Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence fellowship is the Center's most prestigious invitation-only fellowship. It enables one esteemed senior international scholar per year to spend a two-week residency at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Shoah Foundation for consultation, conversation, and research with the Holocaust and genocide research resources at USC, including the USC Shoah Foundation VIsual History Archive.
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Publication Type | Title | Format | Year |
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Avila, Lorena, Nancy Nicholls, and Yael Siman | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
"Migration Narratives of Holocaust Survivors in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico." In Lessons and Legacies XIV: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Tim Cole and Simone Gigliotti. Northwestern University Press. |
Article | 2020 |
Bartov, Omer | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz. Simon&Schuster. |
Book | 2018 |
Bothe, Alina | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Duale Digitale Erinnerung - Perspektiven und Wirksamkeit von Gender im Visual History Archive.” In Geschlecht und Erinnerung im digitalen Zeitalter: Neue Perspektiven auf Zeiteuglnnenarchive, edited by Alina Bothe and Christina Isabel Brüning, pp. 95-134. LIT Verlag Muenster. |
Article | 2015 |
Bothe, Alina | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Zeugnisse Überlebender der Shoah in den Digitalen Medien: Eine quellenkritische Reflexion.” In Zeugnisformen: Berichte, künstlerische Werke, Erzählungen von NS-Verfolgten, edited by Davi Knellessen and Ralf Possekel, pp. 57-68. BoD - Books on Demand. |
Article | 2016 |
Brackney, Kathryn | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Otherworldly Horizons: An Alternative History of Holocaust Consciousness". Yale University. |
PhD Dissertation | 2019 |
Cole, Tim, and Alberto Giordano | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Places of the Holocaust: Towards a model of GIS of place.” Transactions in GIS 24(4): 842-857. |
Article | 2019 |
Curry, Tommy | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
Thinking through the silence: theorizing the rape of Jewish males during the Holocaust through survivor testimonies, in Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2020.1843824. |
Article | 2020 |
Feferman, Kiril | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
"Save Your Souls: Jewish Conversion and Survival in the Occupied Soviet Territories During the Holocaust." Modern Judaism 39(2): 184-204. |
Article | 2019 |
Feferman, Kiril | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
Dwelling at the Foot of a Volcano? Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust in the North Caucasus. In C. Brooks & K. Feferman (Eds.), Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus (pp. 48-68). Boydell & Brewer. |
Article | 2020 |
Florczyk, Piotr | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
From the Annals of Kraków. University of Washington Press. |
Article | 2020 |
Klein, Shira | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
Italy’s Jews from Emancipation to Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
Book | 2017 |
Knowles, Anne Kelly, Paul B. Jaskot, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
"Mind the Gap: Reading across the Holocaust Testimonial Archive. In Lessons and Legacies XIV: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Tim Cole and Simone Gigliotti. Northwestern University Press. |
Article | 2020 |
Le Noc, Maël, Alberto Giordano, and Tim Cole | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“The Geography of the Holocaust in Italy: Spatiotemporal Patterns of Arrests for Families and Individuals and a Conceptual Model.” The Professional Geographer, DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2020.1758572. |
Article | 2020 |
Lower, Wendy, and Lauren Faulkner Rossi |
Lessons and Legacies XII: New Directions in Holocaust Research and Education. Northwestern University Press. |
Book | 2017 | |
McBride, Jared | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Peasants into Perpetrators: The OUN-UPA and the Ethnic Cleansing of Volhynia, 1943-1944,” Slavic Review 75(3): 630-54. |
Article | 2016 |
Mizrahi, Erin | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
"Witnessing Silence: Testimony, Performance, and the Poetics of the Unspeakable." University of Southern California. |
PhD Dissertation | 2018 |
Nickel, Toni | Other VHA-based Publications |
The Impact of Women on the Organization of the Kindertransport: an Examination of the Historical Record Primarily Utilizing Oral History. Undergraduate research scholars thesis. Texas A&M University. |
2017 | |
Rebrova, Irina | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
"Traumatische Kindheit: Holocaust und Ueberlebenspraktiken Juedischer Kinder in den Besetzen Gebieten des Nordkaukasus." In Kindheiten im Zweiten Weltkrieg, edited by Francesca Weil, Andre Postert, and Alfons Kenkmann, pp. 393-410. Dresden: Hannah-Arendt Instituts fuer Totalitarismusforschung un der TU Dresden. |
Article | 2018 |
Rebrova, Irina | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Memory Politics about the Holocaust in the Soviet and Russian Discourses: the Case of the North Caucasus”. |
PhD Dissertation | 2019 |
Rebrova, Irina | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
Reconstructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory. The Case of the North Caucasus. De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
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Book | 2020 |
Rebrova, Irina | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“We Were Saved Because the Occupation Lasted Only Six Months”: (Self-)Reflection on Survival Strategies during the Holocaust in the North Caucasus. In C. Brooks & K. Feferman (Eds.), Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus (pp. 218-240). Boydell & Brewer. |
Article | 2020 |
Seipp, Adam | Other VHA-based Publications |
“Buchenwald Stories: Testimony, Military History, and the American Encounter with the Holocaust.” Journal of Military History 79(3): 721-44. |
Article | 2015 |
Siman, Yael, and Daniela Gleizer | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
"Holocaust Survivors in Mexico: Intersecting and Conflicting Narratives of Open Doors, Welcoming Society and Personal Hardships," in Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations, edited by Navras J. Aafreedi and Priya Singh. Oxon and New York: Routledge. |
Article | 2021 |
Toth, Gabor (with Stephen Naron) | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Let Them Speak: An Effort to Reconnect Communities of Survivors in a Digital Archive.” In Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age, edited by Eve Monique Zucker and David J. Simon, pp. 71-94. Palgrave Macmillan. |
Article | 2020 |
Walch, Theresa | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“Degenerate Spaces: The Coordination of Space in Nazi Germany.” |
PhD Dissertation | 2018 |
Zalewska, Maria | CAGR Staff and Fellows Publications |
“#Holocaust: Rethinking the Relationship Between Spaces of Memory and Places of Commemoration in The Digital Age.” University of Southern California. |
PhD Dissertation | 2019 |

2016-2017

2017-2018

2018-2019
Professor Marion Kaplan is a world-renowned scholar of German-Jewish history. Educated at Rutgers University and Columbia University, Marion Kaplan is the Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University. She previously taught at Queens College, the City University of New York, and has served as visiting lecturer at Columbia University and Princeton University.