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Graduate Student Research
Psychology of Genocide Studies
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, Psychology of Genocide, 2008-2011
Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace Award, Middlebury College Language Schools, 2010
Selected Publications:
"Exploring the Edge of Trauma," Psychology and Society, April 2010
"'Negotiating with the Dead': On the Past of Auschwitz and the Present of Oświęcim," Psychology and Society, co-authored with Jody Russell Manning, January 2010.
"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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Armenian Genocide Studies
Ümit Kurt - Dissertation topic to be determined.
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Fellowships:
Agnes Manoogian Hausrath Fellow in Armenian Genocide Studies, 2010-2011Selected Publications:
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Contact: ukurt@clarku.edu
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Khatchig Mouradian "The 'Ground Zero' of the
Armenian Genocide: Destruction and Agency in the Concentration Sites of Syria (1915-1918)"
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Fellowships:
Agnes Manoogian Hausrath Fellow in Armenian Genocide Studies, 2009-2010Selected Publications:
Numerous articles and current editor, Armenian Weekly publication, 2007-present.Recent Presentations:
"I Apologize, Sort of; Now You Apologize: The Impact of the Apology Campaign on Turkish-Armenian Dialogue," MESA panel Former Ottomans and Contemporary Communities: Explorations in Reconciliation, Boston, November 2009.
"The Armenians, Raphael Lemkin, and the UN Genocide Convention," Haigazian University International Conference on genocide and International Law, Beirut, September 2009.
"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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Holocaust History
Elizabeth Anthony "Rückkehrer: Holocaust
Survivors and Refugees’ Repatriation to Austria"
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Fellowships:
Fromson Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2010-2011
Barbara and Richard Rosenberg Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2010
Fulbright Fellow, Award to Austria, Fulbright Austrian-American Educational Commission, 2010-2011
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Graduate Studies Fellow, 2007-2010
Holocaust Educational Foundation Fellowship, 2010
Shahun-Parish Graduate Student Research Award, 2009-2010
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Yiddish for Holocaust Research Fellowship, 2008Selected 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," Torathon 2009, Worcester MA, 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 Vienna's 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, April 2008.
Contact: eanthony@clarku.edu
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Michael Geheran "Keine Kameraden: German-Jewish WWI Veterans under Hitler."
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Fellowships:
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Graduate Studies Fellow, 2010-2011
Society for Military History's Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2010
DAAD/LBI Research Fellowship, 2010
Fromson Fellow in Holocaust History, 2009-2010.
Siff Family Fellow, 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, April 2009.
"The Collapse of Comradeship: German-Jewish Veterans and the Judenzählung of 1916," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, April 2009Contact: mgeheran@clarku.edu
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Emily Dabney "Forced Labor in the Maghreb"
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Fellowships:
Richard P. Cohen, M.D. Fellow, 2007-2011
Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2010
American Council for Maghrib Studies, 2010Recent Presentations:
"Ham Goes to Rwanda: Racial Myth in the Colonial Period," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, 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, Holocaust History, 2006-2011
Hilda and Al Kirsch Graduate Student Research Award, 2010
Dr. 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, 2007Selected Publications:
"From Sweet to Sour: Holocaust Education and Awareness in North America," Afterword: Canada's Newspaper for the Young Jewish Scene, April 2007Recent 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, April 2007Contact: adgoldberg@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) Fellow, 2007-2011
Holocaust Educational Foundation Fellowship, 2010
Shahun-Parish Graduate Student Research Award, 2009-2010Recent 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, April 2009.
"Religious Institutions and Memory after Genocide: The Rwandan and Armenian Genocides," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, April 2009.
"Lawrence Langer's 'Choiceless Choices' and Primo Levi's 'Grey Zone:' A Look at Adam Czerniakow and Chaim Rumkowski," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, 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:
Rose Family Fellow, 2008-2011
Hilda and Al Kirsch Graduate Student Research Award, 2010
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Fellow, 2006-2008Selected Publications
"UN Genocide Convention in Historical Perspective," Politics and Diplomacy, University of Bucharest Press, 2010
"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 2007Recent 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, 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 titled 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 2007Contact: 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, Holocaust History, 2008-2010
Recent Presentations:
"Russian and Soviet Concentration Camps until 1941," Camps and Genocide panel, First International Graduate Students' Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, April 2009Contact: 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, 2010-2011
Fulbright Fellow, Award to Poland, Polish – United States Fulbright Commission, 2010-2011
Fromson Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2008-2009
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Fellow, 2007-2008Selected Publications:
"‘Negotiating with the Dead’: On the Past of Auschwitz and the Present of Oświęcim," Psychology and Society 3[1] 42-58, co-authored with Cristina Andriani, August 2010
"The Palimpsest of Memory: Auschwitz and Oświęcim," special issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History on The Holocaust and Local History (forthcoming fall 2010)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, April 2008
"In Search of a Categorization: Homosexuality, Nazism and the Holocaust," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, April 2008Contact: jmanning@clarku.edu
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Michael Nolte - Dissertation topic to be determined.
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Fellowships:
Strassler Center Fellow in Holocaust History, 2010-2011
Contact: mnolte@clarku.edu
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Kimberly Partee "Trawniki Men: Nazi prisoners and death camp guards"
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Fellowships:
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Graduate Studies Fellow, 2010-2011
Auschwitz Jewish Center: A Bridge to History Fellowship, 2010
Simon and Eve Colin Fellow, Holocaust History, 2009-2010Contact: kpartee@clarku.edu
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Raz Segal "The Disintegration of a Borderland Society: Genocide and Mass Violence in Subcarpathian Rus'’"
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Fellowships:
Simon and Eve Colin Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 2010-2012
Fellowship of the Holocaust Educational Foundation, 2010
Natalia and Mendel Racolin Memorial Fellowship at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2009-10
Claims Conference Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 2008-9, 2009-10
Fromson Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History,
Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, 2007-8
Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship, 2007-8, 2008-9
The Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation within the framework of The Ignatz Bubis Memorial Scholarship Fund in Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2005-6
Publications:
Books
Days of Ruin: The Jews of Munkács during the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem
Publications, 2011) (Hebrew)
*English edition forthcoming at Yad Vashem Publications in 2012.Chapters in edited books
"Becoming Bystanders: Carpatho-Ruthenians, Jews, and the Politics of Narcissism in Subcarpathian Rus'," in: Thomas Kühne and Tom Lawson (eds.), The Holocaust and Local History (London: Vallentine Mitchel, 2011)Articles in refereed journals
"Imported Violence: Carpatho-Ruthenians and Jews in Carpatho-Ukraine, October 1938-March 1939," Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Vol. 26: Jews and Ukrainians, forthcoming in 2013"Becoming Bystanders: Carpatho-Ruthenians, Jews, and the Politics of Narcissism in Subcarpathian Rus'," Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Vol. 16, No. 1-2 (2011)
*This article also appeared as a chapter in: Thomas Kühne and Tom Lawson (eds.), The Holocaust and Local History(London: Vallentine Mitchel, 2011)"The Jews of Huszt between the World Wars and in the Holocaust," Yalkut Moreshet. Holocaust Documentation and Research 4 (Winter 2006)
*This article also appeared in the Hebrew edition of the volume, No. 82 (2006)Encyclopedia entries
Entries on ghettos in Subcarpathian Rus' (Munkács, Ungvár, Beregszász, Nagyszőllős, Huszt, and Aknaszlatina, as well as an introductory essay on Subcarpathian Rus') for Volume 3 of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, forthcoming in 2013Presentations:
"The Disintegration of a Borderland Society: Genocide and Mass Violence in
Subcarpathian Rus'," International Workshop for PhD Candidates from the USA and Israel Researching the Holocaust, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, November 2011"The Destruction of the Jewish Communities in Subcarpathian Rus': A Holocaust in Context," Lecture at the Research Seminar of the International Institute of Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, January 2011
"Reevaluating the Holocaust in Hungary: The Destruction of Subcarpathain Rus' Jewry as a Case Study," Lessons and Legacies XI, Florida Atlantic University, USA, November 2010
"Between 'ethnic cleansing' and 'final solution': The Persecution and Destruction of Subcarpathian Rus' Jews during World War II," The Sixth Annual Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine, University of Ottawa, Canada, October 2010
"'Ethnic Cleansing' and Genocide in Subcarpathian Rus': The Destruction of Jewish Life in a Multiethnic Region during World War II," Natalia and Mendel Racolin Memorial Lecture, Max Weinreich Center, YIVO Institute, New York, February 2010
"The Holocaust in Israeli Discourses: Hebrew and Yiddish Translations," 25th Association for Israeli Studies Annual Conference, Be'er-Sheva, 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, Worcester, USA, April 2009
"Public and Popular Discourses of the Jewish-Palestinian Conflict," Fulbright Forum Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, April 2009
"Jewish Society in the Ghettos in Subcarpathian Rus': The Complexities of Facing Genocide," 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Toronto, Canada, December 2007
"Psychological Aspects in the Destruction of the Jewish Communities in Subcarpathian Rus'," International Conference on the Holocaust in Hungary, Holocaust Memorial Center, Budapest, Hungary, March 2007
"Holocaust Research among Third Generation Scholars," The Memorial Day for the Destruction of the Jewish Communities of Subcarpathian Rus', Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, May 2005
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) Fellow, 2008-2011
Harriet Irsay Scholarship, American Institute of Polish Culture, 2010
Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union Scholarship, 2010
International Summer Yiddish Program Scholarship, Goldreich Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Tel Aviv University, 2010
Yad Vashem Summer Scholarship, 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, 2009Recent 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, Clark University, 2009
"The Effect of the Holodomor on Ukrainian Children" Ukrainian Famine-Genocide Educational Conference, Kean University, NJ, 2008Contact: jsliwa@clarku.edu
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