Ms. Lindsay MacNeill

Professional Background

At the time of her fellowship, Lindsay MacNeill was a PhD candidate in History at American University, where she also earned her master's in Modern European History. As the Diane and Howard Wohl Fellow, Ms. MacNeill conducted research for her project entitled “Policing Politics in Austria, 1918-1955.”

Ms. MacNeill has reading and speaking skills in both Spanish and German.

Ms. MacNeill has won several awards and fellowships. She was a Junior fellow in Vienna, Austria with the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies during 2016. She also received a 2016-2017 Fulbright-Mach award for conducting research in Vienna, Austria. She was the winner of a Doctoral Student Research Award from American University in 2015.

Fellowship Research

While in residence at the Mandel Center, Ms. MacNeill researched the conduct of the Austrian Police under successive regimes, including the Austrian First Republic, the Austrofascist dictatorship, Nazi Austria, and postwar Austria. She was especially interested in how these significant regime changes affected the careers of individual police officers and the force as a whole. Her research explored police training and education, police conduct towards criminals and political opponents, and police attitudes towards the government and society. She used the museum's various collections, including the Vienna Component collection.

Residency Period: March 1, 2017 - October 31, 2017.

To acquire Dr. MacNeill's current staff bio, please contact lmacneill@ushmm.org.