Lauren Ashley Bradford

Lauren Ashley Bradford is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She holds a BA in History and German Studies from Gettysburg College and an MA in European History, Politics, and Society from Columbia University. Bradford’s research interests lie at the intersections of gender and race, with a specific focus on female perpetration in regimes of racial terror. Her dissertation project takes a comparative approach in analyzing “Aryan” and white women who openly participated in public displays of violence in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America. She centers her research around certain public settings and acts of violence, such as riots, lynchings, and pogroms, within these two distinct periods. Bradford has been awarded several fellowships and research grants, including a Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, a Junior Fellowship at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, a European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) Conny Kristel Fellowship, a Tauber Institute Graduate Research Award, and a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Grant for Doctoral Candidates.

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