Bradford’s dissertation, With Blood on Their Stockings’: Women’s Public Participation in Racial Terror in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America, takes a feminist comparative approach to women as perpetrators of violence in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America. She centers her research around certain public settings and acts of violence, such as riots, lynchings, and pogroms. This is in contrast to previous studies that have focused on the careers or family life of women perpetrators. Women’s involvement took many forms, with varying degrees of severity, but the responses to their choices and actions are crucial to understanding the complex relational dynamics between victims and perpetrators and, additionally, the ways in which these dynamics were compounded by gender.
Advisor: Thomas Kühne
Education:
- B.A., History & German Studies, Gettysburg College, 2018
- M.A., European History, Politics, and Society, Columbia University, 2020
Publications:
- “The 12 Years Before Liberation: Exploring the ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of the Holocaust.” Post and Courier. April 20, 2025.
- “Destruction Behind the Lines: Oppression and Murder of Slavic Peoples in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe.” Post and Courier. May 3, 2024.
- “From Prejudice to Mass Murder: Exploring the ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of the Holocaust.” Post and Courier. May 3, 2024.
Documentaries:
- von Salomon, Elias, dir. Der Nazi-Clan: Hitler’s Hofstaat. Season 1, episode 3, “Rudolf Hess, the Deputy.” Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF). Aired April 11, 2025, streaming on ZDFmediathek. https://www.zdf.de/dokus/der-nazi-clan-hitlers-hofstaat-100
- Gallenmüller, Dagmar, dir. Der Nazi-Clan: Hitler’s Hofstaat. Season 1, episode 6, “Eva Braun, The Mistress.” Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF). Aired April 11, 2025, streaming on ZDFmediathek. https://www.zdf.de/dokus/der-nazi-clan-hitlers-hofstaat-100
Fellowships:
- AAJR Dissertation Research Grant – The American Academy for Jewish Research, 2025-2026
- Sharon Abramson Research Grant – The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU), 2025-2026
- Central European History Society Research Grant, 2025-2026
- Special and Area Studies Collections Research Grant – George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, 2025
- Southern History and Culture Fellowship – Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, 2025
- Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship – USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, 2024-2025
- The Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship – Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund, 2021-2023 & 2024-2025
- Conny Kristel Fellowship, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), 2023
- DAAD One-Year Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates, 2023-2024
- The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Graduate Research Award, 2023
- The Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) Research Grant, 2023
- The Albery M. Tapper Fellowship and the Ference and Ilona (Schulhoff) Cziger Research Award,2020-2021
