Lauren Fedewa

Professional Background

Lauren Fedewa is a master’s student in history at the University of Vermont, where she has received a University of Vermont Research and Travel Award, a Graduate Fellowship, and the History Department’s Thompson Scholarship. Ms. Fedewa received her bachelor's degree in history and Germanic studies from the University of Maryland, where she was awarded both the German Department Scholarship and the History Department Scholarship.

Ms. Fedewa’s research focuses on the experiences of female Polish and Eastern European forced laborers in Germany during World War II, with particular attention to the social interactions and relationships that developed between these women and local Germans.

Ms. Fedewa has served as a graduate research assistant at the UVM Miller Center for Holocaust Studies and as a teaching assistant. She also worked as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer with the Holocaust Survivor Program at the Jewish Social Service Agency in Rockville, Maryland, and conducted educational outreach with the Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim, Poland, during her service as an Amizade Global Service-Learning Volunteer.

Fellowship Research

While at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Summer Graduate Student Research Fellow, Lauren Fedewa will utilize her German fluency in her work with Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice, Dr. Geoffrey P. Megargee, and Dr. Jan Lambertz on the fifth volume of the Mandel Center’s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos.

Residency Period: June 1, 2017 - August 31, 2017