{"id":7433,"date":"2025-05-01T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/?page_id=7433"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:37:26","slug":"simone-gigliotti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/profiles\/simone-gigliotti\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Gigliotti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Royal Holloway, University of London<\/p>\n

Dr. Simone Gigliotti<\/a>\u00a0is Senior Lecturer in Holocaust Studies in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and Deputy Director of its\u00a0Holocaust Research Institute<\/a>. At Royal Holloway, she is also affiliated with the\u00a0Centre for the GeoHumanities<\/a>, and the\u00a0Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric<\/a>. She is a Fellow of\u00a0The Royal Geographical Society<\/a>\u00a0(with IBG) (FRGS) and the\u00a0Higher Education Academy<\/a>\u00a0(FHEA). Simone\u2019s research focuses on spatial understandings of Holocaust victim and survivor experiences in oral testimonies, and written, visual and geographic narratives, and exploring how these accounts often intersect with, and differ from, perpetrator, humanitarian and other witnessing perspectives. She maintains research interests in genocide studies, particularly in the use of digital strategies and methods to track indigenous cultural destruction and its recuperation.<\/p>\n

She published two co-edited collections\u00a0in 2020:\u00a0The Wiley Companion to the Holocaust<\/em>\u00a0(with Hilary Earl) and\u00a0The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age<\/em>:\u00a0Lessons and Legacies, Volume XIV<\/em>\u00a0(with Tim Cole).\u00a0She is finalizing a monograph that tracks and analyzes the flight paths of Jewish refugees and displaced persons in contemporaneous newsreels, documentaries, fundraising films, and home movies:\u00a0On the Trail of the Homeseeker: the Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced<\/em>. The book uses geographic approaches to follow these materials’ production histories, circulation, and visual geography in terms of a \u201ccinema of the displaced,\u201d building a mobility cartography across shifting scales of experience and global homeseeking locations.<\/p>\n

Simone has been involved with other spatial history projects, such as the NSF-funded project, Holocaust Historical GIS, the results of which have been featured at the\u00a0Spatial History Project<\/a>\u00a0(Stanford University) and in published form as\u00a0Geographies of the Holocaust<\/a>\u00a0(2014). She is a research affiliate of the\u00a0Holocaust Geographies Collaborative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0StoryMap<\/a>\u00a0of publications and papers captures the evolving trajectories of Simone\u2019s research interests and projects.<\/p>\n

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