A white woman looks at the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive on a computer screen. The photo is dramatically lit.

Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence

The Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence fellowship is the Center’s most prestigious invitation-only fellowship. It enables one esteemed senior international scholar per year to spend a two-week residency at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Shoah Foundation for consultation, conversation, and research with the Holocaust and genocide research resources at USC, including the USC Shoah Foundation VIsual History Archive.

Fellowship Audience

Senior International Scholars

Fellowship Opens

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Fellowship Closes

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Fellows

Dan Stone

2023-2024 Shapiro Scholar in Residence

Jan Grabowski

2022-2023 Shapiro Scholar in Residence

New research and findings on the Holocaust in Poland

Sara Horowitz

2020-2022 Shapiro Scholar in Residence

Gender, agency, and imagination in stories of the Shoah

Peter Hayes

2019-2020 Shapiro Scholar in Residence

Challenging the prevalent conceptions of industrial murder during the Holocaust

Marion Kaplan

2018-2019 Shapiro Scholar in Residence

Tracing three decades of research about gender and the Holocaust

Christopher Browning

2017-2018 Shapiro Scholar in Residence

Survivor testimony and the Starachowice factory slave labor camp

Omer Bartov

2016-2017 Shapiro Scholar in Residence

How the town of Buczacz transformed from a site of coexistence to genocide

David Cesarani

2015-2016 Inaugural Shapiro Scholar in Residence