Center Opens Applications for 2026 USC Student Fellowships
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research has opened applications for four fellowships available to USC undergraduate and graduate students. The deadline for applications is November 23, 2025.
All fellowships – open to USC students from any academic discipline – enable students to spend time in residence at the USC Center for Advanced Genocide Research to pursue their own research projects and work with the internationally unique and growing research resources at USC in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. (Read more about the resources below.)
Each fellow plays an active role in the Center’s activities and gives a public lecture based on their work and findings.
Read more about the fellowships here:
2026 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship – for undergraduate and graduate students (one-semester residency)
2026 Charles E. Scheidt Undergraduate Research Fellowship – for undergraduate students (two-semester residency)
2026 Charles E. Scheidt Undergraduate Research Assistant Fellowship – for undergraduate students (two-semester residency)
2026 Charles E. Scheidt Graduate Research Fellowship – for graduate students (two-semester residency)
USC Resources in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
USC’s resources include the extensive Holocaust and Genocide Studies collection at USC Libraries, which contains 30,000 primary and secondary sources including the original transcripts of the Nuremberg trials and the materials of the New York Life Insurance settlement regarding the Armenian genocide. Unique primary sources in the Special Collections at USC include the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, which houses the private papers of dozens of emigrants from the Third Reich, as well as private collections from Jewish Holocaust survivors and liberators.
The Visual History Archive is a collection of over 59,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides, including the Rwandan, Armenian, Guatemalan, Cambodian genocides, the Nanjing Massacre in China, anti-Rohingya mass violence, and war and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The majority of testimonies are life history interviews in which interviewees discuss their lives before, during, and after genocide and mass violence. With interviews conducted in 69 countries and in 44 languages, testimonies capture both the individual experience of mass violence and the social and cultural history of the 20th century on a global scale. Learn more about the Visual History Archive here.
Academic Disciplines
The fellowship is open to USC students from any academic discipline. Since the Center’s founding, students across disciplines have worked with these resources in innovative and creative ways. Find out more on our website about past student research fellows from the following fields: American Studies and Ethnicity; Anthropology; Art; Cinematic Arts; Comparative Literature; Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture; Creative Writing; English; English Literature; Game Development and Interactive Design; Global Studies; History; International Relations; Jewish Studies; Journalism; Law, History, and Culture; Media Arts and Practice; Politics, Philosophy, and Law; Public Policy and Leadership; Narrative Studies; Psychology; and Sociology.
