Dominique Stringer

Professional Background

Dominique Stringer is a doctoral student in history and Jewish studies at Indiana University. Situated in the fields of memory studies, migration studies, and Holocaust studies, she explores the connections between the movement of objects and the migration of people. Her research takes two primary focuses: first, on Jewish migration history on the eve of the Holocaust and how the memories of those journeys have persisted in the public imagination; and second, on the ethics of how museums collect and exhibit objects related to traumatic histories. Ms. Stringer also holds a master's degree in museum studies from the University of Kansas and a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Luther College.

In addition, Ms. Stringer has worked as a graduate fellow at institutions such as the National Museum of the American Latino, the Spencer Museum of Art, and the University of Kansas Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, sharing histories of migration, survival, and resistance. 

Fellowship Research

While at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Summer Graduate Student Research Fellow, Dominique Stringer will be investigating a microhistory of Jewish migration from interwar Danzig, a border city between Germany and Poland. Using immigration records, Senate documents, family correspondence, and oral histories, Ms. Stringer will examine the local incentives and barriers to emigration between 1938 and 1941. 

Ms. Stringer’s research centers on the community synagogue’s decision to emigrate en masse by selling a collection of ceremonial objects to an American Jewish seminary. By coordinating an acquisition to fund refugee migration, the synagogue and seminary engaged in a complex act of transnational solidarity that challenged the traditional limits of arts advocacy and aid. Through this project, Ms. Stringer seeks to complicate the relationship between forced removal as an act of violence and emigration as a strategic method of survival.

Residency Period: June 1, 2026 – August 31, 2026