
Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship
The Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship enables an advanced-standing PhD candidate to spend up to 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 USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources.

Advanced-Standing PhD Candidates

September

December
Fellows

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