Please review our current graduate students below.
“Gender Aspects of the Armenian Genocide in the Experiences of its Female Victims (1914-1918)”
Fellowships:
- Vartan Gregorian scholarship by Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, 2019
- Harry and Ovsanna Chitjian Fellowship, 2014-2018
- National Association for Armenian Studies Travel Grand (2015)
- National Association for Armenian Studies & Knights of Vartan Fund for Armenian Studies Travel Grant (2018)
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Short Term Grant on Armenian Studies (2018)
“Leadership styles and Social Relations in the SS-Einsatzgruppen”
Learn more about Maayan’s work
Fellowships:
- Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalization, Graduate Scholarship, 2021
- Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Junior Fellow 2020-2021
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, 2020-2021
- European Holocaust Research infrastructure (EHRI) fellow at the Bundesarchiv Ludwigsburg 2017-2018
- Tapper Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2018 – 2019
- Claims Conference Fellow (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany)* 2014-2017
Publications:
Maayan Armelin, Instruments of Murder: Einsatzgruppen Officers’ Leadership Styles and their Effect on Followers’ Motivations, in: S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 9 (2022) 1, 71–78.
“A Historical Analysis of the ‘Interahamwe’ Militia”
Learn more about Alison’s work
Fellowships:
- Albert M.Tapper Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2017-2021
“Cloaked in Femininity: Women’s Participation in Racial Terror in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America“
Learn more about Lauren Ashley’s work
Fellowships:
- The Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund (2021-2023)
- The Albert M. Tapper Fellowship and the Ference and Ilona (Schulhoff) Czigler Research Award (2020-2021)
“The Geography of Slave Labor: Dutch Jews and the Third Reich, 1942-1945”
Fellowships:
- Claims Conference Fellow (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) *, 2017-2022
- Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund Grant, 2020
- Summer Research Fellowship for PhD Students, Yad Vashem, 2019
- Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellowship, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2021-2022
- Conny Kristel Fellowship, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), 2021
- Junior Fellowship, Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, 2021
“The mindset of Armenian genocide perpetrators in the Angora Province”
Learn more about Burçin’s work
Fellowships:
- Agnes Manoogian Hausrath Graduate Studies Fellow for the Study of the Armenian Genocide, 2018 – 2021
- Yesil Fellow in Armenian Genocide Studies, 2017 – 2018
- National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, 2017
- Knights of Vartan Fund for Armenian Studies, 2017
- Charlotte Calfaian Fellow in Armenian Genocide Studies, 2016-2017
Publication:
- Akintiya: Ermeni Soykırımında Emirlere Karşı Gelenler, Kurtaranlar, Direnenler” (Against the Current: Rescuers, Resisters and those who Opposed Orders during the Armenian Genocide) Turkey: Illetim Publishing House, November 2016
“Writing and Rewriting the History of the Kovno Ghetto”
Fellowships:
- Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Holocaust Studies, Claims Conference, 2021 – 2023
- Doctoral Scholarship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2020-2021
- Sharon Abramson Research Grant, Holocaust Educational Foundation, 2020
- Fund for the Study of the Holocaust in Lithuania Fellowship, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2019-2020
- Wexner Graduate Fellowship in Jewish Studies, The Wexner Foundation, 2016-2020
- Shirley and Ralph Rose Fellowship, 2016-2020
- Hilda and Al Kirsch Graduate Student Research Award, 2019
- Baltic Jewish History Fellowship, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2018-2019
- European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) Fellowship, Yad Vashem, 2018
- Claims Conference Fellow (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) *, 2015-2016
“Whatever happens, never reveal to anyone that you’re Jewish”: Identity Passing as a Jewish Response to Persecution during the Holocaust.
Fellowships:
- Claims Conference Fellow (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany)*, 2018-2022
- Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Award, 2019
- Conny Kristel Fellowship, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), 2021
- Leo Back Institute Fritz Halbers Fellowship, 2021
- DAAD One-Year Grant for Doctoral Candidates, 2021-2022
- The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Graduate Research Award, 2022
Publications:
– “Passing on the Periphery: A Call for the Critical Reconsideration of Research on Identity ‘Passing’ as a Jewish Response to Persecution During the Holocaust,” The Journal of Holocaust Research 36, no. 2-3 (June 2022): 111-127.
“The Socio-Political Situation in Van and Bitlis Provinces in 1912-1915”
Learn more about Hasmik’s work
Fellowships:
- AGBU US graduate scholarship for 2021-2023
- Asbed B. Zakarian and Margaret M. Zakarian Research Award 2020-2021
- Richard Melik Simonian Charitable Trust Scholarship Fund, 2022
“Neighborliness and Neighborhood Violence in Bosanski Novi”
Learn more about Sandra’s work
Fellowships:
- Shirley and Ralph Rose Fellowship 2020 – 2022
“The Foundation of the Republic of Turkey and the problem of Armenian returnees 1918-1940.”
Fellowships:
- Howard Fromson Fellowship, 2020-2021
- AGBU US graduate scholarship, 2021-2022
- Richard Melik Simonian Charitable Trust Scholarship, 2021-2022
“Encountering Others: Jewish Social Identity and Intergroup Relations in the Riga Ghetto”
Fellowships:
- Suesser Fellowship, 2018-2019
- Hannah and Roman Kent Research Award, 2020 – 2021
“Ustaša Killing Specialists: The Personnel of the Jasenovac Camp Complex”
Fellowship:
- Hanne and Howard Kulin Fellow, 2018 – 2021
- Louis and Ann Kulin Fellow, 2017
- Claims Conference Fellow (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) *, 2016-2017
- Fondation pour la Memoire de la Shoah Fellowship, 2021-2022
“Justice Pursued: Jewish Survivors’ Struggle for Holocaust Justice in Displaced Persons Camp Föhrenwald, 1945-1957”
Learn more about Alexandra’s work
Fellowship:
- Claims Conference Fellow (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) *, 2017-2022
- Marlene and David Persky Research Award, 2017-2022
- 2018 Summer Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Visiting Scholars Programs, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC
- Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Graduate Research Fellowship, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, 2021-2022
- Doctoral Scholarship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, NY, 2021-2022
- David Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship, Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, 2020-2021
- Junior Fellowship, Center for Holocaust Studies, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, DE, 2020-2021
- Fred and Ellen Lewis/JDC Archives Fellowship, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives, New York, NY, 2020-2021
“Resistance with Words: The Jewish Telegraph Agency during the Holocaust”
Fellowships:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Award, 2022-2026
“The Transmission of Holocaust Memory in Argentina: From the Refugee Survivors to the Generation of the Disappeared”
Current Position:
Director of Education, Holocaust Museum, Center for Tolerance and Education, Suffern NY
Fellowships:
- Tapper Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2014-2017
- The Family Robert Weil Foundation, Dissertation Research Grand, 2017
- Yad Vashem Two-Week PhD Candidate Fellowship, July 2016
- Ralph and Shirley Rose Fellow, 2013-2014
“Perpetuation of Atrocity and the Armenian Genocide’s Influence within Bolshevik, Kemalist, and Armenian Relations, 1917-1921”
Fellowships:
- Armenian Community Fellow, 2018 – 20201
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Short-term Grant for Armenian Studies, Summer 2018.
- Margrit and Nishan Atinizian Fellowship, 2017-2018
“Wartime Collaborators and the Politics of Justice in Bangladesh (1971-1975)”
Learn more about Sajjad’s work
Fellowships:
- Fromson Fellow, 2015-2019
- Hilda and Al Kirsch Graduate Research Award, 2017
- CGS- Square Fellowship, 2017
“Anti-Jewish Pogroms and Neighborhood Violence in Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1941”
Fellowships:
- Sidney and Rosalie Rose Fellowship 2019-2021
- Conny Kristel Fellowship, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, 2022-2023
- American Councils Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Program, 2022-2023
“When Perpetrators Become Victims: Members of the Wehrmacht as Inmates in Nazi Concentration Camps”