Professional Background
Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich is a professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where she teaches German language, literature, and culture, as well as courses on antisemitism and the Holocaust. She has also taught at the Center for Jewish Studies at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, in the Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna, at the University of Virginia, and at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Dr. Hansen-Glucklich holds a Ph.D. in German studies from the University of Virginia, two master's degrees in German and comparative literature from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a bachelor's degree in English from Georgetown University. She has also held two previous fellowships at the Mandel Center: a Diane and Howard Wohl Fellowship (2008-2009) and a Dorot Research Fellowship (2007).
Dr. Hansen-Glucklich has published two monographs: German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings: A Cultural History in Bronze, Wood, and Stone and Holocaust Memory Reframed: Museums and the Challenges of Representation, as well as several peer-reviewed articles and essays in journals and edited volumes.
Fellowship Research
While at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Fred and Maria Devinki Memorial Fellow, Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich will conduct research on her project, “Inscribed for Life: Memory, Personal Names, and Naming Rituals in Jewish Me.” The project investigates the significance of Jewish personal names and rituals of naming in the remembrance and memorialization of Jewish persecution, trauma, and martyrdom, including Jewish victimization during the Holocaust, the Inquisition, expulsions, massacres (e.g. the Crusades), and pogroms. Dr. Hansen-Glucklich plans to utilize the Museum's collection of Yizkor books, audio recordings of Holocaust memorialization programs, materials documenting the Law Regarding the Changing of Family Names and Given Names (1938); oral histories of survivors, and materials documenting the founding of Yad Vashem.
Residency Period: June 1, 2027 - August 31, 2027