Ms. Carli Snyder

Professional Background

Carli Snyder is a PhD candidate in the history department at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She also holds a master’s degree in history from the CUNY Graduate Center, and a bachelor’s degree in history and women’s and gender studies from Pacific Lutheran University.

Snyder completed internships at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and has presented her work at major academic conferences, including Lessons and Legacies, the Association for Jewish Studies, and the Berkshire Conference of Women, Genders, and Sexualities. Her intellectual contributions have been recognized through several awards and fellowships, including a Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University Sharon Abramson Research Fellowship, the Harvard University Radcliffe Center Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, the Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship, Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies at the University of Southern California Center for Advanced Genocide Research and Shoah Foundation.

Fellowship Research

Ms. Snyder was awarded a Manya Friedman Memorial Fellowship for her dissertation project, “‘The Flesh of the Facts’: Toward a Feminist Holocaust Consciousness.” Her research examines the political and intellectual dimensions of feminist approaches to Holocaust studies as they developed between the 1970s and early 2000s, with particular emphasis on the work and contributions of Joan Ringelheim. Given Ringelheim’s extensive career as a professor, researcher, and USHMM staff expert, her work illuminates robust networks of scholars, survivors, feminist activists, and museum professionals who collaboratively pursued feminist inquiry. Moreover, Snyder’s research addresses the controversies surrounding feminist approaches, particularly in the earliest manifestations, which many viewed as highly subversive. Through an analysis of pro- and anti-feminist arguments and their evolution over time, Snyder's project also provides insights into the changing terms.

While at the Mandel Center, Ms. Snyder will utilize the archival collection Joan Ringelheim donated to the USHMM and other institutional archival materials related to Ringelheim’s work at the Museum. She also intends to draw on USHMM’s Institutional Oral History Project and materials pertaining to the development of the Museum’s permanent exhibition and its oral history department.

Residency Period: October 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024