Featured alumni
Upper Left: Gabrielle Hauth ’22 and Thomas Kühne Upper Middle: Tiberiu Galis ‘15 Upper Right: Elizabeth Anthony ’16 and Jeffrey Koerber ’15
Lower Left: Alexis Herr ’14 Lower Middle: Samantha Lakin ’21 with family Bottom Left: Michael Geheran ’16, Thomas Kühne and Joanna Sliwa ’16
Anna Aleksanyan, Ph.D. ’23
“ Gendered Aspects of the Armenian Genocide in the Experiences of its Victimized Females (1914-1918)”
Current Position:
Post-doctoral Fellow, Promise Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
Kim Allar, Ph.D. ’19
“Education in Violence: Training Guards in Nazi Concentration Camps and Killing Centers”
Current Position:
Lead Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Cristina Andriani, Ph.D. ’13
“Swords or Plowshares? Holocaust Collective Memories and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict”
Current Position:
Psychotherapist, Private Practice, North Grafton.
Elizabeth Anthony, Ph.D. ’16
“Return Home: Holocaust Survivors Reestablishing Lives in Postwar Vienna”
Current Position:
Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.
Publication:
The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews After the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, 2021)
Maayan Armelin, Ph.D. ’23
“Leadership styles and Social Relations in the SS-Einsatzgruppen”
Bar-ilan Post Doctorate Fellowship- 2023
Sara Elise Brown, Ph.D. ’16
“Gender and Agency: Women Rescuers and Perpetrators During the Genocide in Rwanda”
Current Position:
Director, American Jewish Committee (AJC), San Diego
Publication:
Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Rescuers and as Perpetrators (Routledge, 2017)
Beth Cohen, Ph.D. ’03
“Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America, 1946-1954”
Current Position:
Lecturer, History and Jewish Studies, California State University, Northridge, CA.
Publications:
Child Survivors of the Holocaust: The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience (Rutgers University Press, 2018)
Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America (Rutgers University Press, 2007)
Sarah Cushman, Ph.D. ’10
“The Women of Birkenau: The Women’s Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau”
Current Position:
Director, Holocaust Educational Foundation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Asya Darbinyan, Ph.D. ’19
“Russian Humanitarian Response to Armenian Genocide”
Current Position:
Executive Director of Chhange, the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education
Daan de Leeuw, Ph.D.’25
“The Geography of Slave Labor: Dutch Jews and the Third Reich (1942-1945)”
Current Position:
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tiberiu Galis, Ph.D. ’15
“Transitional Justice and Transition to a New Regime: Making Sense of Uncertain Times”
Current Position:
Executive Director, Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities
Publication:
Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Michael Geheran, Ph.D ’16
“Betrayed Comradeship: German-Jewish WWI Veterans under Hitler”
Current Position:
Deputy Director, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, United States Military Academy at West Point, New York
Publication:
Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler (Cornell University Press, 2020)
Adara Goldberg, Ph.D. ’12
“We Were Called Greenies: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Canada”
Current Position:
Director of the Holocaust Resource Center and Diversity Council on Global Education and Citizenship, Kean University, Union, NJ
Publication:
Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955 (University of Manitoba Press, 2015)
Simon Goldberg, Ph.D. ’24
“Writing and Rewriting the History of the Kovno Ghetto”
Current Position:
Postdoctoral Fellow in Public History at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Publication:
“Between Poetry and History: Real-Time Writings on Holocaust Trains,” The Journal of Holocaust Research 32, no. 1 (2018): 57-73.
Hana Green, Ph.D. ’25
“Whatever happens, never reveal to anyone that you are Jewish’: Identity ‘Passing’ as a Jewish Response to Persecution during the Nazi Period, 1933-1945”
Current Position:
Rose Mibab and Carl Goldberg Postdoctoral Fellow in Holocaust Studies in the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the College of Charleston
Sandra Grudić, Ph.D. ’25
“Neighborliness and Neighborhood Violence in Bosanski Novi”
Current Position:
Program Administrator, Educator Outreach, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
Gabrielle Hauth, Ph.D. ’22
“Intimacy in Ravensbrück. Sex, Violence, and Survival in a Nazi Concentration Camp”
Current Position:
Producer, Der Spiegel
Naama Haviv, MA ’06
“The Pre-Conditions for ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ through ‘Population Transfer’: The Case of Israel-Palestine”
Current Position:
Vice President of Community Engagement, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, Los Angeles, CA.
Alexis Herr, Ph.D. ’14
“Fossoli di Carpi: The History and Memory of the Holocaust in Italy”
Current Position:
Lecturer, San Francisco State University
Publications:
Darfur Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide (ABC-CLIO, 2020)
Rwandan Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide (ABC-CLIO, 2018)
The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy: Fossoli di Carpi, 1942-1952 (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016)
Stefan Cristian Ionescu, Ph.D. ’13
“Romanianization: Greed, Opportunism, Corruption, and Resistance in World War II Bucharest”
Publication:
Jewish Resistance to ‘Romanianization’, 1940-1944 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Emil Ditlev Kjerte, Ph.D. ’25
“Ustaša Guards at Jasenovac — Moral Transformation, Social Interaction, and Gender Norms”
Current Position:
Jeffrey Koerber, Ph.D. ’15
“Borderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler”
Published by: Syracuse University- October 2019
Current Position:
Assistant Professor of Holocaust History, Chapman University, Chapman, CA.
Robin Krause, MA ’12
“German Opposition to Genocide: The Case of the Herero, 1904-1907”
Current Position:
Social Studies Teacher, South Oldham High School, Crestwood, Kentucky.
Umit Kurt, Ph.D. ’16
“The Making of the Aintab Elite: Social Support, Local Incentives and Provincial Motives Behind the Armenian Genocide (1890s-1920s)”
Current Position:
Professor of History, University of New Castle, New South Wales, Australia
Publications:
(with Taner Akçam) The Spirit of the Laws: Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (Berghahn Books, 2017)
The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Harvard University Press, 2021)
Samantha Lakin, Ph.D. ’21
“Kwibuka: Divergent Memories and Quests for Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda”
Current Position:
Curriculum Analyst, Organizational Learning Unit, Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State
Publications:
“Memory and Victimhood in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Legal, Political, and Social Realities” in Narratives of Mass Atrocity: Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
(with Paul Bartrop) Heroines of Vichy France: Rescuing French Jews during the Holocaust (Praeger, 2019)
Beth Lilach, MA ’12
“Aftermath of Liberation: Jewish Life in Displaced Persons Camps, Germany 1945-1957”
Current Position:
Executive Director of the Konar Center for Tolerance and Jewish Studies at Nazareth College, NY
Jody Russell Manning ABD
“Living in the Shadow of Auschwitz and Dachau: Memorial, Community, Symbolism, and the Palimpsest of Memory”
Current Position:
Lecturer and Director of Programming, Center for the Study of Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Rowan University
Khachador Mouradian, Ph.D. ’16
“Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1917”
Current Position:
Lecturer, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department and Director, Armenian Studies Program, Columbia University
Publication:
Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1916″, Études arméniennes contemporaines, Vol. 7 (2016)
The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915 – 1918 (Michigan State University Press, 2021)
Ilana Offenberger, Ph.D. ’10
“The Nazification of Vienna and the Response of the Viennese Jews”
Current Position:
Lecturer, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Publication:
The Jews of Nazi Vienna, 1938-1945 (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017)
Mike Phoenix (Mihai Poliec), Ph.D. ’18
“A Dangerous Proximity: The Civilian Complicity During the Holocaust in Romania’s Borderlands, 1941-1944”
Current Position:
Postgraduate Research Associate – Historian Subject Matter Expert at SNA International, Honolulu, Hawaii
Publication:
The Holocaust in the Romanian Borderlands: The Arc of Civilian Complicity (Routledge, 2019)
Alicja Podbielska, Ph.D. ’21
“A Tree For Poland: The Memory of Holocaust Rescue, 1942-2018”
Current Position:
Hartman Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2023), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University
Christine Schmidt, Ph.D. ’03
“The Plateau of Hospitality: Jewish Refugee Life on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon”
Current Position:
Deputy Director and Head of Research, Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, London
Raz Segal, Ph.D. ’13
“Disintegration: Social Breakdown and Political Mass Violence in Subcarpathian Rus”
Publications:
Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2016)
Days of Ruin: The Jews of Munkacs During the Holocaust (Yad Vashem Publications, 2013)
Joanna Sliwa, Ph.D.’16
“Concealed Presence: Jewish Children in German-Occupied Kraków”
Current Position:
Historian, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)
Publication:
Jewish Childhood in Krakow: A Microhistory of the Holocaust (Rutgers University Press, 2021)
Lotta Stone, Ph.D. ’10
“Seeking Asylum: Jewish Refugees to South Africa 1930-1948”
Current Position:
Historian and Research Associate, The Middleton Place Foundation, Charleston, South Carolina
Jason Tingler, Ph.D. ’19
“Mosaic of Destruction: The Holocaust and Interethnic Violence in Chelm, 1939 – 1944”
Current Position:
Lecturer, Department of Arts and Sciences, Marion Technical College
