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Current Mandel Center Fellows

Fellows in residence at the Museum are building on the work of their predecessors to reveal new information and offer new perspectives about the Holocaust. The opinions of fellows expressed before, during the course of, or after their activities with the Mandel Center are their own and do not represent and are not endorsed by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum or its Mandel Center.

  • Sosland Foundation Visiting Fellow October 1, 2023–May 31, 2024

    Project: “Sephardic Literary Responses to the Holocaust”

  • J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar October 1, 2023–June 30, 2024

    Project: “Hitler’s Chosen People: Defining Ethnic Germans in World War II and the Holocaust”

  • Randolph and Elizabeth Braham Fellow January 1–April 31, 2024

    Project: "Shaping the memory of the Holocaust of Roma and Sinti under communism in Czechoslovakia”

  • Randolph and Elizabeth Braham Fellow October 1, 2023–January 31, 2024

    Project: “Eyewitness accounts, Documentation, and Commemorative Practices: A Transnational Study of Raoul Wallenberg’s Memory”

  • Alexander Grass Memorial Fellow October 1, 2023-May 31, 2024

    Project: “Violence, the Village Elder, and Daily Life in Interwar and Occupied Poland

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public History July 24, 2023–July 24, 2025

    Project: “Chinese Nationals in Nazi and Postwar Germany”

  • Sosland Foundation Fellow October 1, 2023—May 31, 2024

    Project: “‘Whatever happens, never reveal to anyone that you’re Jewish’: Identity Passing as a Jewish Response to Persecution during the Nazi Period”

  • American University and Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship August 1, 2022–July 31, 2024

    Project: “Photography and the Making of the Nazi Racial Fantasy, 1933-1950”

  • William J. Lowenberg Memorial Fellowship on America, the Holocaust, and the Jews October 1, 2023–May 31, 2024

    Project: "Jewish Survivors’ Struggle for Holocaust Justice in Displaced Persons Camp Föhrenwald and American-Occupied Munich"

  • Sosland Foundation Fellowship October 1, 2023–May 31, 2024

    “Endurance, Resistance, Flight: Jewish Responses to the Holocaust in Kharkiv, 1941-1943”

  • Dr. Ruth Mandel

    Sosland Foundation Fellowship January 1–April 30, 2024

    Project: “Stolpersteine: From Ethnography to the Archives”

  • Sosland Foundation Fellow October 1, 2023 – May 31, 2024

    Project: “Eugenic Architecture in Romania, 1920-1944

  • Joyce and Arthur Schechter Fellow September 1, 2023–December 31, 2023

    Project: “The Corpse Carrier’s Tango and Other Songs of the Living”

  • Fred and Maria Devinki Memorial Fellow October 1, 2023 – May 31, 2024

    Project: “Silenced Histories: Remembering the Roma Holocaust in Albania and Kosovo”

  • Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich—Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Exchange Scholar, supported by the Fred and Maria Devinki Memorial Fellowship Fund January 1, 2024–April 31, 2024

    Project: “Holocaust Survivors’ Accounts in the Yiddish Radio Broadcasts in Poland”

  • Kathryn Sederberg

    Kurt and Thea Sonnenmark Memorial Fellow June 1–July 31, 2024

    Project: “Writing Home: Refugee Diaries of German and Austrian Jews, 1933-1945”

  • Manya Friedman Memorial Fellow October 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024

    Project: “‘The Flesh of the Facts’: Toward a Feminist Holocaust Consciousness”

  • Fred and Maria Devinki Memorial Fellow October 1, 2023–January 31, 2024

    Project: “New Allies, Old Foes: Nazi Propaganda in Occupied Lithuania, 1941-1944

  • Marcel Strobel

    Duane Rath Endowment Fellow January 1–April 31, 2024

    Project: “Queering the Archive: Homosexuality, Transvestitism, and Sex Work during the German Interwar Period

  • Sosland Foundation Fellow January 1–August 31, 2024

    Project: “Liberators, Occupiers, Pastors: Christian Encounters with Holocaust Survivors in Post-War Occupied Germany”

  • Ina Levine Invitational Scholar October 2, 2023–June 30, 2024

    Project: “Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Poland in the Aftermath of the Holocaust”

  • Fred and Maria Devinki Memorial Fellowship January 1, 2024–April 30, 2024

    Project: “‘In the name of the German Nation’: The German jurisdiction in Warsaw 1939-1944”

  • Fred and Maria Devinki Memorial Digital Humanities Fellow October 1, 2023–June 30, 2024

    Project: “Uncovering Emotional Contamination: Redefining the Process of Site-Specific Analysis”