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The cornerstone of the Center’s academic program is our competitive fellowship program, which attracts the brightest scholars from all over the world. The residential fellowships, ranging in length from monthlong to semester-long, enable scholars at all academic levels, including undergraduate students, PhD candidates, and senior scholars, and from all academic disciplines, to work with the rich resources at USC.<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Raissa Alonso\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2022-2023 Greenberg Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Anti-Nazi resistance on the American continent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Diane Marie Amann\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2017-2018 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Women at Nuremberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Christopher J. Anderson\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2024-2025 Greenberg Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Landscapes of Holocaust Rescue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Valerie Aronhalt\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2025 Charles E. Scheidt Undergraduate Research Assistant Fellow<\/p>\n

Shadowing and supporting leading and emerging scholars at the Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Noha Ayoub\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2017 Undergraduate Student Research Fellow (DEFY)<\/p>\n

Nationalism in Rwanda and anti-Tutsi fictionalized narratives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Barnabas Balint\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2021-2022 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Growing up Jewish during the Holocaust in Hungary<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Aliyah Blank\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2025 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Jewish resistance in the Vilna and Kovno ghettos from 1941 to 1943<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Kathryn Brackney\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2017-2018 Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies<\/p>\n

Phantom geographies in representations of the Holocaust<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Lauren Ashley Bradford\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2024-2025 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s roles as perpetrators of and active participants in two regimes of racial terror \u2014 Nazi Germany and Jim Crow America<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Nicholas Bredie\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2021 Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Creative nonfiction drawing from Holocaust testimonies<\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Virginia Bullington\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2018 Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Narratives of sexual violence and concepts of gender in post-genocide societies<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Lauren Cantillon\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2020-2021 Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies<\/p>\n

Jewish women\u2019s narratives of sexual(ized) violence during the Holocaust<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Kimberly Cheng\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2018-2019 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Jewish refugees and Chinese locals in post-WWII Shanghai<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Ioanida Costache\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2019-2020 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Cultivation and transmission of Romani memories of the Holocaust through music<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Sydney Crowley\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2023 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Shifts and continuities in Sinti and Romani religious beliefs before, during and after the Holocaust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Paula Cuellar Cuellar\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2016-2017 Center Graduate Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Scorched earth as a tactic of genocide in El Salvador and Guatemala<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Clara Dijkstra\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies<\/p>\n

Emotional experiences of Jews and Roma (Tsiganes) in detention and internment camps in WWII France<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Jean-Marc Dreyfus\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2018-2019 Center Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Corpses of the Holocaust<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Sarah Ernst\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2024 Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Queer individuals living during the Third Reich who were targeted by the Nazis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Kiril Feferman\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2015-2016 Center Research Fellow<\/p>\n

The role of religion in Jewish survival and rescue in occupied Soviet territories during the Holocaust<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Julie Fitzpatrick\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2023-2024 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow<\/span><\/p>\n

German-Jewish women\u2019s relationship with food during prewar, wartime, and postwar eras<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Piotr Florczyk\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2016 Graduate Student Research Fellow (Honorable Mention)<\/p>\n

Authoring poetry inspired by testimony<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Emily Geminder\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2022 Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Where language fails in Holocaust survivor testimonies<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Chad Gibbs\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2020-2021 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Gender and spaces of resistance at Treblinka<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Parker Hatley\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2024-2025 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Fellow in Genocide Studies<\/p>\n

Plantation<\/span> development<\/span>, political violence, and cold war in Highland Guatemala<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Nisha Kale\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2016 Undergraduate Student Research Fellow (DEFY)<\/p>\n

Behavioral responses to stress during genocide<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Charlotte Kiechel\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2021-2022 USC Shoah Foundation Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies<\/p>\n

The position of the Holocaust in Rwanda\u2019s national memory culture<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Alexander Korb\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2016-2017 Center Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Participation in the Holocaust by non-Germans in Eastern Europe<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Ay\u015fenur Korkmaz\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2019-2020 Katz Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Spatial belonging, everyday life, and notions of home for Armenian genocide survivors<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe K\u00fcnzel\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2017-2018 Center Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Jewish-gentile relations in the occupied Netherlands<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Anna Lee\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2019 Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Survivor activism in the aftermath of historical genocides and contemporary mass shootings<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Ma\u00ebl Le Noc\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2019-2020 Greenberg Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Geographies of persecution in occupied Paris<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Peg LeVine \n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2014-2015 Center Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Ritualcide and the priming of mass violence and terror under the Khmer Rouge<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Vaclav Masek\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2022 Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Collective memory and Indigenous resistance in Guatemala<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Jared McBride\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2014-2015 Greenberg Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Constructing a micro-history of the Holocaust in Western Ukraine<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Lukas Meissel\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2018-2019 Greenberg Research Fellow<\/p>\n

SS photography from concentration camps<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Vanessa Bel\u00e9n Dorda Meneses\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2017 Genocide Prevention Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Sexual violence during the Guatemalan genocide<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Francesco Micaletti-Hinojal\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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Scheidt Undergrad Research Fellow<\/span><\/p>\n

The Perception of Foreign Actors in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Erin Mizrahi\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2016 Graduate Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

The many roles of silence in testimony<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Beatrice Mousli\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2016 Faculty Summer Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Max Jacob and those who continued to write while under threat during WWII<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Alexia Orengo-Green\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2024 Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Jewish children who escaped Nazi Germany and its territories for Latin America, specifically Argentina and Puerto Rico<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Pilar P\u00e9rez\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2023-2024 Center Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Indigenous territory and displacement in Guatemalan genocide survivor testimonies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Mehmet Polatel\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2019-2020 Center Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellow<\/p>\n

The relationship between the Hamidian Massacres and the Armenian Genocide<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Irina Rebrova\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2017-2018 Greenberg Research Fellow<\/p>\n

The role of oral history interviews in Russia’s regional Holocaust memory<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Orli Robin\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2015 Undergraduate Student Research Fellow (DEFY)<\/p>\n

Study of resistance to genocide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Victoria Sanford\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2024-2025 Center Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Forced disappearances during the Guatemalan genocide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Katja Schatte\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2016-2017 Greenberg Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Jewish women living in East Berlin from 1945 to 1990<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Lacey Schauwecker\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2016 Graduate Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Exploring screaming in art and testimony in Central America, focusing on Guatemala during her residency<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Christina Schoellkopf\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2015 Undergraduate Student Research Fellow (DEFY)<\/p>\n

Anti-Tutsi discrimination in Rwanda<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Carli Snyder\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2022-2023 USC Shoah Foundation Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies<\/p>\n

The place of gender and sexuality in interviewer trainings and Holocaust survivor testimonies<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Allison Somogyi\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2019-2020 USC-Yale Postdoctoral Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Discussion of sexual violence in postwar testimonies <\/span>by Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivors<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Sanna Stegmaier\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2018-2019 Center Graduate Research Fellow (Honorable Mention)<\/p>\n

Transnational and transgenerational Holocaust memory in the digital age<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Lucy Sun\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2020 Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Chinese women\u2019s resistance to sexual violence during the Nanjing massacre<\/span>
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\n \n \n Ryan Cheuk Him Sun\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2022-2023 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Jewish refugees’ experiences on ships bound for Shanghai<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Alexandra Szab\u00f3\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2023-2024 Greenberg Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Hungarian Romani and Jewish women\u2019s experiences of fertility abuses<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Atharva Tewari\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2021 Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Rohingya citizenship and belonging<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n \n \n Lilia Tomchuk\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2021-2022 Greenberg Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Agency, choice, survival, and resistance of Jewish women during the Holocaust in Transnistria<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Gabor Toth\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2018-2019 Center Postdoctoral Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Recovering and representing victims\u2019 experiences during the Holocaust through digital tools<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Bieke Van Camp\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2018-2019 Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies<\/p>\n

Social bonds, barriers, and networks amongst Italian Jewish deportees<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Teresa Walch\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2016-2017 Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies<\/p>\n

Excluding Jews from their homeland and erasing \u2018Jewish spaces\u2019 in Nazi Germany<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Julia Werner\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2015-2016 Greenberg Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Ghettoization as represented in photographs and examination of what’s outside the frame<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Danielle Willard-Kyle\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2018-2019 Center Graduate Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Jewish survivors who went through Italian Displaced Persons camps after World War II<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Griffin Williams\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2017 Undergraduate Student Research Fellow (DEFY)<\/p>\n

Death marches during the Holocaust<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Florian Zabransky\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2020-2021 Greenberg Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Intersection of intimacy, violence, and agency of Jewish men during the Holocaust<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Maria Zalewska\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2017 Graduate Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Reimagining landscapes of pre-Holocaust Poland<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n \n Rachel Zaretsky\n\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2020 Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Creating a visual and somatic artistic response to Holocaust survivor testimonies<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n \n

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\n \n Faye Zhang\n\n <\/h3>\n \n \n
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2023 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n

Making an animated film based on her research with the testimonies of Nanjing Massacre survivors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"parent":1705,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1900","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nResearch Fellows - Center for Advanced Genocide Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/people\/research-fellows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Research Fellows - Center for Advanced Genocide Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/people\/research-fellows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Center for Advanced Genocide Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-30T22:43:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/people\/research-fellows\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/people\/research-fellows\/\",\"name\":\"Research Fellows - 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