Lorena Cardona Gonzaléz

Affiliated Scholar

LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH TEAM (2019)

Lorena Cardona Gonzaléz is a professor in the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences at the Universidad de Caldas (Colombia). Lorena earned her PhD in History and MA in History and Memory from the Universidad de la Plata (Colombia). Following her doctoral studies, Lorena was also a Postdoctoral Fellow in History at the Instituto de Investigación en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (IdICHS) and National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) at the Universidad de la Plata. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including more recently the Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Postdoctoral Fellowship at USHMM. Lorena joined the Latin American Interdisciplinary Research Team in 2019. Her project focuses on representations of the Holocaust in Colombia, history of Jewish and German migration during World War II, the Nazi party in Colombia, and the post-war treatment of Jewish refugees from Nazism.

The 2017 to 2018 Latin American Research Week Team pose for a picture. From left to right: Yael Siman, Alejandra Morales Stekel, Emmanuel Kahan, Daniela Gleizer Salzman, Lorena Avila Jaimes, Susana Sosenski, and Nancy Nicholls Lopeandía.

Mobility, Survival and Integration: Experiences and Narratives of Holocaust Survivors in Latin America – Latin American Research Week team

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The 2017 to 2018 Latin American Research Week Team discuss their research with each other in a USC History building conference room. From left to right: Maria Zalewska, Yael Siman, Susana Sosenski, and Emmanuel Kahan. Various laptops, notes, cups, and food are scattered across the table.

First Interdisciplinary Research Week to Study Holocaust Survivors in Latin America

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Lorena Cardona Gonzaléz