{"id":7212,"date":"2025-04-23T10:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/?page_id=7212"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:59:57","slug":"allison-somogyi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/profiles\/allison-somogyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Allison Somogyi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--scrolling-text-with-image \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--scrolling-text-with-image\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"text-image-container\">\n\n          \n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2024\/05\/Scrolling-Text-Image_Allison-Somogyi-1_20240228.jpg\"\n                    sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      \n    <div class=\"text-container\">\n  \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Research Fellow<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Allison Somogyi\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>2019-2020 USC-Yale Postdoctoral Research Fellow<\/p>\n<p>Allison Somogyi earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019. Her dissertation analyzed the survival and resistance tactics employed by young Jewish women in Budapest under Arrow Cross rule and Nazi occupation and traced, through their diaries, how they navigated the fraught space available to them in the chaotic months of Nazi occupation and during the siege of Budapest. She is the winner of several awards and fellowships. Her dissertation was awarded the 2020 Dean\u2019s Distinguished Dissertation Award for the highest level of graduate student scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the area of Humanities &amp; Fine Arts. During the 2018-2019 academic year, she received a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Association for Jewish Studies. She was the Alexander Grass Memorial Fellow, at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum during the 2017-2018 academic year. She was a Saul Kagan Fellow for Advanced Shoah Studies for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany during both the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 periods. She also received the Two-Week Research Fellowship for PhD Students\/Candidates from Abroad at Yad Vashem in 2017. Allison\u00a0Somogyi holds a MA in History from the University of North Carolina and a BA in History from Grinnell College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n          <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n            \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--articles-carousel \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--articles-carousel\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n\n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Lectures\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n  \n\n\n  \n  <div class=\"articles-carousel-wrapper\">\n\n  <div class=\"title-controls-container\">\n          <h3>   <\/h3>\n    \n    <div class=\"controls-container\">\n      <button class=\"button-prev\" aria-label=\"Previous Article\">\n        <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\"\n        x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" xml:space=\"preserve\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\">\n        <polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#000\" points=\"15.7,27.5 5.7,17.5\n        15.7,7.5 18.7,10.4 13.6,15.4 28.3,15.4 28.3,19.6 13.6,19.6 18.7,24.6 \"\/>\n        <\/svg>\n      <\/button>\n      <button class=\"button-next\" aria-label=\"Next Article\">\n        <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\"\nx=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" xml:space=\"preserve\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#000\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5\n19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/>\n<\/svg>\n\n      <\/button>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"swiper\">\n      <div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n        \n        \n          <article class=\"swiper-slide card\">\n            <div class=\"card-inner\">\n\n                                        \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/2020\/08\/27\/walking-a-fine-line-hungarian-jewish-survivors-and-the-discourse-surrounding-sexual-violence-in-postwar-testimonies\/\"  aria-label=\"Walking a Fine Line: Hungarian-Jewish Survivors and the Discourse Surrounding Sexual Violence in Postwar Testimonies &#8211; Allison Somogyi\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2023\/08\/Featured-Image_Allison-Somogyi-Lecture-BG-768x432.png\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2023\/08\/Featured-Image_Allison-Somogyi-Lecture-BG-1280x720.png 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2023\/08\/Featured-Image_Allison-Somogyi-Lecture-BG-768x432.png 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Screenshot from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive of Lilly Wolf's testimony. 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