Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

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Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

The Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship enables an advanced-standing PhD candidate to spend a month in residence at the Center every year. The result of a generous gift by Gerald Breslauer, Mickey Rutman, and Tammy Anderson, the fellowship will be awarded to a Ph.D. candidate from any discipline for dissertation research focused on testimony from the Visual History Archive and other USC resources.

Read the Call for Applications here.

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Fellowship Audience

Advanced-Standing PhD Candidates

Fellowship Opens

September

Fellowship Closes

December

Lauren Ashley Bradford

2024-2025 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow

Women’s roles as perpetrators of and active participants in two regimes of racial terror — Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America

Julie Fitzpatrick

2023-2024 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow

German-Jewish women’s relationship with food during prewar, wartime, and postwar eras

Ryan Cheuk Him Sun

2022-2023 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow

Jewish refugees’ experiences on ships bound for Shanghai

Barnabas Balint

2021-2022 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow

Growing up Jewish during the Holocaust in Hungary

Chad Gibbs

2020-2021 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow

Gender and spaces of resistance at Treblinka

Ioanida Costache

2019-2020 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow

Cultivation and transmission of Romani memories of the Holocaust through music

Kimberly Cheng

2018-2019 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow

Jewish refugees and Chinese locals in post-WWII Shanghai

Diane Marie Amann

2017-2018 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow

Women at Nuremberg

Buried in the Archive: Researching Women’s Public Violence in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America – Lauren Ashley Bradford

Food and Class: Emigration Experiences of German Jewish Women – Julie Fitzpatrick

Boredom and Excitement at Sea: Jewish Refugees’ Experiences on Ships Bound for Shanghai – Ryan Cheuk Him Sun

Growing Up Jewish During the Holocaust in Hungary – Barnabas Balint

Locating Women in the Revolt: Gender and Spaces of Resistance at Treblinka – Chad Gibbs

Listening for the Romani Holocaust – Ioanida Costache

American Dreams: Jewish Refugees and Chinese Locals in Post-World War II Shanghai – Kimberly Cheng

Women at Nuremberg – Diane Marie Amann

Picture of a thick, beige book with yellowed pages. A white piece of paper sticks out from the pages.

Hidden in the Archive: An Unknown Leaflet from a Jewish Aid Organization in 1948

A black and white picture of a field, a crater in the immediate foreground and trail of thick smoke in the background.

Testimonies and Resistance at Treblinka: Reflections from 2020-2021 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow Chad Gibbs

Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow Lauren Ashley Bradford discusses women’s violence and archival absences

Lauren Ashley Bradford Awarded 2024-2025 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Fellow Julie Fitzpatrick presents on German Jewish Women’s Emigration Foodscapes

Interview with Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Fellow Julie Fitzpatrick

Julie Fitzpatrick Awarded 2023-2024 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

Screenshot of Ryan Sun presenting in a Taper Hall room. Ryan smiles with his hands clasped.

Ryan Cheuk Him Sun Awarded 2022-2023 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

Picture of Barnabas Balint presenting in Doheny Library. He has one hand outstretched. The slide reads,

Barnabas Balint Lectures About Growing Up Jewish During the Holocaust In Hungary

Screenshot of Barnabas Balint presenting, smiling.

Barnabas Balint Awarded 2021-2022 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

Chad Gibbs Awarded 2020-2021 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

An ink painting by Holocaust survivor Ceija Stojka of her experiences as a Roma child in Auschwitz. She uses black ink on paper, using rough and textured strokes to depict a mound of bodies piled in front of barbed wire. A woman's body dominates the center of the painting. She is misshapen and swollen, facial features barely recognizable, eyes open. The rest of the bodies have their eyes closed, or are turned away, or obscured under other bodies.

Ioanida Costache lectures about cultivation and transmission of Romani memories of the Holocaust through music

Screenshot of Kimberly Cheng presenting. She smiles, hands crossed over one another.

Kimberly Cheng lectures about Jewish refugees’ experiences in war-time Shanghai

Kimberly Cheng Awarded 2018-2019 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellowship

A wide-shot of Diane Marie Amann lecturing in Doheny Library. A crowd of attendees sit in wooden chairs. Diane stands behind a podium.

Diane Marie Amann Lecture Summary

Screenshot of Diane Marie Amann presenting. She smiles, standing behind a podium and in front of a bookshelf filled with colorful books.

Center for Advanced Genocide Research Awards Inaugural Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Fellowship to Diane Marie Amann

Photo of Beatrice Mousli, 2016 Faculty Summer Research Fellow, presenting in Doheny Library.

Gift to USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research will Endow New Academic Research Fellowship