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About Visiting Scholar Programs

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies awards fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. Awards are granted on a competitive basis. The Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all relevant academic disciplines, including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, sociology, anthropology, comparative genocide studies, law, and others.

Fellows at the Center have access to more than 60 million pages of Holocaust related archival documentation; the Museum’s extensive library; oral history, film, photo, art, artifacts, and memoir collections; and a database on Holocaust survivors. Many of these sources have not been examined by scholars and offer unprecedented opportunities to deepen knowledge about the Holocaust and further advance the field of Holocaust studies.

In addition, fellows have access to the digitized holdings of the International Tracing Service (ITS) relating to the fates of more than 17 million people who were subject to incarceration, forced labor, and displacement as a result of World War II. Over the next several years, the Museum expects the complete receipt of more than 100 million digital images of archival material from the ITS. Proposals from applicants interested in the digitized records of the ITS are especially encouraged.

Fellows at the Center work with other new and established Holocaust scholars from the United States and abroad, enabling them to test ideas, share research findings, debate methodological or interpretive approaches, and develop comparative frameworks for individual projects. The Center’s weekly fellows meetings and senior seminar programs provide stimulating forums for debate and discussion. Fellows also participate in the Center’s outreach activities at universities and other academic institutions, both locally and throughout the United States.

In addition to the fellowship competition, each year the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council invites two distinguished scholars in the field of Holocaust Studies to take up residency at the Center as the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence and the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar.

General Information

Fellowships are awarded to candidates working on their dissertations (ABD), postdoctoral researchers, and senior scholars. Applicants must be affiliated with an academic and/or research institution when applying for a fellowship. Immediate post-docs and faculty between appointments will also be considered.

2010-2011 Sosland Foundation Fellow Emily Dabney, 2010-2011 Phyllis Greenberg Heideman and Richard D. Heideman Fellow Idit Gil, and 2010-2011 Barbara and Richard Rosenberg Fellow Elizabeth Anthony photographed in the Archives Reading Room of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
2010-2011 Sosland Foundation Fellow Emily Dabney, 2010-2011 Phyllis Greenberg Heideman and Richard D. Heideman Fellow Idit Gil, and 2010-2011 Barbara and Richard Rosenberg Fellow Elizabeth Anthony photographed in the Archives Reading Room of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum —United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The specific fellowship and the length of the award are at the Center’s discretion. Individual awards generally range up to nine months of residency; a minimum of three consecutive months is required. Fellowships of five months or longer have proven most effective. Stipends range up to $3,500 per month for the purpose of defraying local housing and other miscellaneous living expenses. Residents of the Washington, DC–metropolitan area receive a reduced stipend of $1,750 per month.

Awards include a stipend to offset the cost of direct travel to and from Washington, DC. Residents of the Washington, DC metropolitan area will not receive a travel stipend. The Museum is able to provide visa assistance to fellows and their dependents if necessary. Fellows are responsible for securing their own housing accommodations and health insurance. The Center does not provide support allowances for accompanying family members. The Museum provides work space and access to a computer, telephone, facsimile machine, and photocopier. Cost-sharing by home institutions or other relevant organizations is encouraged to extend the residency of the applicant at the Museum or to make possible additional research at other institutions in the Unites States and abroad.

Thank You

The Center’s fellowships for 2012 - 2013 are made possible by the generous support of the following individuals and organizations:

Jewish Source Study Initiative: