Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship
The Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship provides $1,500 support for USC undergraduate students or $3,000 support for USC graduate students doing research focused on the testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and/or other related USC resources and collections. The fellowship is open to USC undergraduate students and graduate students of all disciplines.
USC Undergraduate and Graduate Students
August
November and March
Apply here
Submit your fellowship application here.
Fellows
Sarah Ernst
2024 Lev Student Research Fellow
Alexia Orengo-Green
2024 Lev Student Research Fellow
Sydney Crowley
2023 Lev Student Research Fellow
Faye Zhang
2023 Lev Student Research Fellow
Emily Geminder
2022 Lev Student Research Fellow
Where language fails in Holocaust survivor testimonies
Vaclav Masek
2022 Lev Student Research Fellow
Collective memory & Indigenous resistance in Guatemala
Nicholas Bredie
2021 Lev Student Research Fellow
Novel based on the life and death of relative, Senta Doheme
Atharva Tewari
2021 Lev Student Research Fellow
Rohingya citizenship and belonging
Lucy Sun
2020 Lev Student Research Fellow
Chinese women’s resistance to sexual violence during the Nanjing massacre
Rachel Zaretsky
2020 Lev Student Research Fellow
Creating a visual and somatic artistic response to Holocaust survivor testimonies
Anna Lee
2019 Lev Student Research Fellow
Survivor activism in the aftermath of historical genocides and contemporary mass shootings
Virginia Bullington
2018 Lev Student Research Fellow
Narratives of sexual violence and concepts of gender in post-genocide societies
Lectures
Queer(ing) Holocaust Video Testimonies: Introductions, Explorations, and Reimaginings – Sarah Ernst
Public lecture on September 24th by 2024 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow Sarah Ernst (PhD candidate in History, University of Southern California)
