The USC Shoah Foundation Institute Faculty Stipend program offers financial awards to assist USC faculty members with the integration of testimony from the Institute’s archive into new or existing courses. Each year, between two and four awards are granted during the spring semester for courses taught the following year. Recipients spend between 10-15 hours in residence at the Institute for hands-on training and research support. Final course syllabi will be posted to this page.
Dr. Weisman will teach a course this fall on the "Literature of Resistance" that will focus on the archive for several weeks and offer students the opportunity to submit video/multimedia projects in addition to more traditional text-based responses.
Dr. Farenga’s spring course "Literature and Justice" will examine survivor narratives of various types including victims of genocide and other types of injustice. He will do a comparative analysis with his students of the different media in which survivor narrative is captured and the different ways in which survivors construct their identities within testimony.
This fall, Dr. Renteln will teach a course on international human rights. She will use the archive when dealing with issues surrounding: the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the rights of minorities, children’s human rights (those born of genocide), and remedies for gross violations of human rights. She will focus especially on an individual's right to their name as a basic human right.
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