Dr. Emily Gioielli

Professional Background

Emily Gioielli is an assistant professor of teaching in the Humanities and Arts Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the editor of Amsterdam University Press’s series “War, Conflict, Genocide.” In 2015, she received a PhD in comparative history from Central European University. She most recently served as a researcher and editor at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, and as a guest researcher in the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Technological Institute. 

Dr. Gioielli’s research examines the history of women, gender, and sexuality, as well as the social history of violence in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Hungary, during the first half of the 20th century. She has published articles and chapters on women’s involvement in and experiences of violence and persecution in the revolutions and counterrevolution in Hungary following World War I. Her current work explores the links between the environment, the Holocaust, and its aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe.

Fellowship Research

While at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Sosland Foundation Fellow, Emily Gioielli will conduct research on the environmental factors that influenced the experiences and memories of violence and persecution during the Holocaust. She seeks to illuminate how the non-human environment and natural processes shaped reactions to and experiences, practices, and memories of violence and persecution. Her research also examines how environmental-historical approaches to the Holocaust may reshape paradigms and analytical frames within the broader field of environmental history.

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