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Graduate Student Research
Cristina Andriani
"Post-Holocaust trauma and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: where past and present collide in Jewish-Israeli collective identity."
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Fellowships:
Robert Weil Fellow for Graduate Studies in Psychology of Genocide, 2008-2010
Selected Publications:
"Belonging to the Conflict: Collective Identities among Israeli and Palestinian émigrés to the United States," Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Routledge, March 2009.
Recent Presentations:
"Jewish-Israeli Sense of Belonging: An Exploration of Life Stories Interview Themes within the Context of Trauma, Memory, and the Holocaust," Holocaust Memory in Israel, First International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, April 2009.
Contact: candriani@clarku.edu
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Elizabeth Anthony "Rückkehrer: Holocaust
Survivors and Refugees’ Repatriation to Austria"
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Fellowships:
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Graduate Studies Fellow, 2007-2010Yiddish for Holocaust Research Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2008
Selected Publications:
"Ein jüdisches Altersheim im Wien der Nachkriegsjahre: Die Betreuung von älteren Überlebenden nach dem Holocaust," co-authored with Dr. Dirk Rupnow, Nuernberger Institut’s Jahrbuch (Yearbook,) 2010.Recent Presentations:
"The Generations After: Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors' Unique Role," The Generations After Torathon 2009, November 2009."Rückkehrer: Holocaust Survivors and Refugees’ Repatriation to Austria," Holocaust Refugees panel, First International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, April 2009.
"Seegasse 9: Serving Vienna¹s Jewish Elderly Immediately After the Holocaust," Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference, London, England, January 2009.
"Confronting National Socialist Past in Austrian Families and Society," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 2008.
Contact: eanthony@clarku.edu
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Emily Dabney "Forced Labor in the Maghreb"
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Fellowships:
Richard Cohen Fellow of Graduate Studies, 2007-2010Recent Presentations:
"Ham Goes to Rwanda: Racial Myth in the Colonial Period," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 2008.Contact: emdabney@clarku.edu
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Adara Goldberg "'We Were Called Greenies': Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Canada"
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Fellowships:
Ralph and Shirley Rose Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2006-2010Dr. Stephen Speisman Bursary, Ontario Jewish Archives, 2009
Louis Manpel Scholarship, 2007-2008
International Summer Yiddish Program Scholarship, Goldreich Institute, Tel Aviv University Summer Yiddish Program, 2007
Selected Publications:
"From Sweet to Sour: Holocaust Education and Awareness in North America," Afterword: Canada’s Newspaper for the Young Jewish Scene, April 2007.Recent Presentations:
"'We Were Called Greenies': Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Canada," Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Annual Conference for Humanities and Social Sciences, Ottawa, May 2009."‘We Were Called Greenies’: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Canada," Holocaust Refugees panel, First International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, April 2009.
"Survival as Gentiles: Jewish Women ‘Passing’ as Gentiles in the Holocaust," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 2007.
Contact: adgoldberg@clarku.edu
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Michael Geheran
"Keine Kameraden: German-Jewish WWI Veterans under Hitler."
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Fellowships:
Fromson Fellow for Graduate Studies in HOlocaust History 2009-2010.Siff Family Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History 2008-2009.
Selected Publications:
Review: Matthias Sprenger’s Landsknechte auf dem Weg ins Dritte Reich? Zu Genese und Wandel des Freikorpsmythos, H-Soz-u-Kult online, April 2009Recent Presentations:
"Keine Kameraden: German-Jewish WWI Veterans under the Third Reich," Relations between Jews and Non-Jews, 1930-1945 panel, First International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, MA, April 2009.
"The Collapse of Comradeship: German-Jewish Veterans and the Judenzählung of 1916," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 2009
Contact: mgeheran@clarku.edu
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Alexis Herr
"Fossoli di Carpi"
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Fellowships:
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Graduate Studies Fellow, 2007-2010Recent Presentations:
"Trapped in Limbo: The Story and Memory of Fossoli di Carpi," Camps and Genocide panel, First International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, MA, April 2009."Religious Institutions and Memory after Genocide: The Rwandan and Armenian Genocides," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 2009.
"Lawerence Langer’s ‘Choiceless Choices’ and Primo Levi’s ‘Grey Zone:’ A Look at Adam Czerniakow and Chaim Rumkowski," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 2008.
Contact: aherr@clarku.edu
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Stefan Ionescu "Opportunities, Ideology, and Opposition in World War II Bucharest: Gentile Responses to the Romanization Process during the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944"
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Fellowships:
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Graduate Studies Fellow, 2006-2010Selected Publications
"Myths, Narratives, and Patterns of Rumors: The Construction of ‘Jewish Subversion’ and Retributive Violence in 1940-1941 Romania," Culture and Psychology Journal Vol. XII, no 3, 2009."The Dynamic Concepts of Resistance and Collaboration in post-Holocaust Remembrance Revisiting the Personal Narratives of Jewish Survivors from Romania," Studia Politica Vol. IX, no 2, 2009.
"Holocaust and Gulag – Variants of the Concept of Genocide? Between International Law and Contemporary Theories of Collective Violence," Holocaust and Gulag in Romanian Consciousness, a special issue of Caietele Echinox Journal, Fall 2007.
Recent Presentations:
"The Romanization Policy during the Antonescu Regime: Mass Participation, Greed, Denunciation, and ‘Camouflage’," Relations between Jews and Non-Jews, 1930-1945 panel, First International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, MA, April 2009."The Boom of Testimony after Communism," The Romanian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, February 2008.
"Belief and Disappointment during Perilous Times: Assessing the Diaries and Memoirs of Zionists and Jewish Communists in Romania," Utopias, Human Rights, and Gender in Twentieth Century Europe, Institute for Contemporary History, University of Vienna in association with the Freud Museum (Vienna) and Cooper Union College, New York, December, 2007.
"The Dynamic Concept of Resistance in post-Holocaust Remembrance," panel entitled, Holocaust in Southeastern Europe, The 39th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2007
"Holocaust and Gulag – Variants of the Concept of Genocide? Between International Law and Contemporary Theories of Collective Violence," Holocaust and Gulag in Romanian Consciousness, Babes Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Political Studies and Journalism, Cluj Napoca, Romania, May 2007.
Contact: sionescu@clarku.edu
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Natalya Lazar
"The Fate of Czernowitz Jews: Genocide and Memory in Bukovina"
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Fellowships:
Hevrony Family Trust Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2008-2010Recent Presentations:
"Russian and Soviet Concentration Camps until 1941," Camps and Genocide panel, First International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, MA, April 2009.Contact: nlazar@clarku.edu
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Jody Russell Manning "Living in the Shadows of Auschwitz and Dachau:
Memorial, Community, Symbolism, and the Palimpsest of Memory"
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Fellowships:
Tapper Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2009-2010Fromson Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2008-2009
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Graduate Studies Fellow, 2007-2008
Recent Presentations:
"The Past in the Present: Upper Silesian and Bavarian Memory in Transition," Jagiellonian University, Kraków, June 2009."Living in the Shadows of Auschwitz and Dachau," Holocaust Museums and Memorial Sites panel, First International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, April 2009.
"The Complexity of Genocide Denial: Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 2008.
"In Search of a Categorization: Homosexuality, Nazism and the Holocaust," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 2008.
Contact: jmanning@clarku.edu
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Khatchig Mouradian
"Resistance during the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust: A Comparative Study"
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Fellowships:
Hausrath Graduate Studies Fellow for the study of the Armenian Genocide, 2009-2010Recent Presentations:
"What's in a Name? The Adoption of 'Genocide" to Describe the Annihilation of the Armenians in 1915-16," Seventh Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Lecturer, University of Minnesota, June 2009.
Contact: kmouradian@clarku.edu
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Kimberly Partee "Trawniki Men: Nazi prisoners and death camp guards"
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Fellowships:
Simon and Eve Colin Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2009-2010Contact: kpartee@clarku.edu
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Raz Segal "Embittered Legacies: Genocide in Subcarpathian Rus’"
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Fellowships:
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Graduate Studies Fellow, 2008-2010Natalia and Mendel Racolin Memorial Fellow, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2009-2010
Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship, 2008-2009, 2007-2008
Fromson Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2007-2008
Selected Publications:
"Their Hearts Hardly Bear the Burden": The Destruction of Munkács Jewry in the Holocaust (temporary title, forthcoming in Hebrew at Yad Vashem Publications, 2010)Entries on ghettos in Subcarpathian Rus’ (Munkács, Ungvár, Beregszász, Nagyszőllős, and Huszt) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume 4, forthcoming 2009
"The Jews of Huszt between the World Wars and in the Holocaust," Yalkut Moreshet. Holocaust Documentation and Research, 4 (Winter 2006)
Recent Presentations:
"The Jews of Munkács in the Interwar Period: A Crisis of Late Modernism," 15th World Conference of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel, August 2009."The Holocaust in Israeli Discourses: Hebrew and Yiddish Translations," 25th Association for Israeli Studies Annual Conference, Israel, June 2009.
"National Revival and Genocide: The Case of Ruthenian Bystanders to the Destruction of Subcarpathian Rus’ Jewry", First International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, MA, April 2009
"Public and Popular Discourses of the Jewish-Palestinian Conflict", Fulbright Forum Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, April 2009
"Jewish Society in the Ghettos of Subcarpathian Russia: The Complexities of Facing Genocide," panel on New Research on Society and Daily Life in Nazi Ghettos, Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Toronto, Canada, December 2007.
Contact: rsegal@clarku.edu
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Joanna Sliwa "Jewish Children in Nazi-Occupied Kraków"
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Fellowships:
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Graduate Studies Fellow, 2008-2010
Scholarship to the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and New York University , New York, Summer 2009
Polish Student Organization Scholarship, Polish Student Organization, New York, NY, 2009
Recent Presentations:
"Creation of Polish Public Perception of Jews through Jewish Humor" 22nd Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium on Jews and Humor, Creighton University, NE, 2009
"Hidden Children Become Priests" 7th Annual Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at Calrk University, 2009
"The Effect of the Holodomor on Ukrainian Children" Ukrainian Famine-Genocide Educational Conference, Kean University, NJ, 2008
Contact: jsliwa@clarku.edu
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Jan Taubitz
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Fellowships:
Stern Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2009-2010Contact: jtaubitz@clarku.edu
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