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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.

  • Alexander Grass Memorial Fellow September 1, 2024–April 30, 2025

    Project: “Palaces of Memory: Polish Jewish Post-Holocaust Memorial Books”

  • Sosland Foundation Fellow February 1, 2025 - May 31, 2025

    Project: “Representations of the Holocaust in Argentine Theatre”

  • Manya Friedman Memorial Fellow January 1, 2025–April 30, 2025

    Project: “Gender and the Representation of Violence in the Bucharest Pogrom”

  • Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance Research Fellow September 1, 2024–April 30, 2025

    Project: “Reconceptualizing Resistance: Zionist Networks of Rescue and Resistance in Wartime Hungary”

  • Sosland Foundation Fellow September 1, 2024 - October 31, 2024

    Project: "The Politics of Movement in Tangier: A Study of Jewish Holocaust Refugees”

  • Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow September 1, 2024–April 30, 2025

    Project: “The Romani People Before, During, and After the Porrajmos: Daily Life and Material Culture Through the Visual Heritage of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (1926-1946)”

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

    Project: “Chinese Nationals in Nazi and Postwar Germany”

  • Leon and Edith Milman Fellow June 1, 2025 – July 30, 2025

    Project: “The Philippines as a Place of Transit and Destination: Jewish, Russian, and Chinese Displaced Persons in Search of Old and New Homes, 1945-1952”

  • Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024 – April 30, 2025

    Project: “The Life, Martyrdom, and Death Cult of Fascist Ion Motza in Interwar Europe”

  • Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History-Munich & Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Exchange Scholar Fellowship January 1, 2025 – April 30, 2025

    Project: “Prisoner Societies in Inmates’ Art: Visual Testimonies from the Buchenwald Concentration Camp”

  • Sosland Foundation Fellow January 1, 2025 - August 31, 2025

    Project: “‘Always one step away from death, always afraid’: Jewish Women and Girls who ‘Passed’ as Polish-Christian Forced Laborers in Germany during the Holocaust”

  • Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024–April 30, 2025

    Project: “Sexual Assault and Child Sexual Abuse during the Holocaust.”

  • Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024-April 30, 2025

    Project: “Evacuees ‘from Abroad’: Latvian Jews on the Soviet Home Front, 1941–1945”

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public History August 12, 2024 – August 12, 2026

    Project: “In the Shadow of the Honor Courts: Lithuanian Jewish Survivors as Agents of Early Holocaust Knowledge”

  • Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Visiting Fellow December 1, 2024–March 31, 2025

    Project: “Holocaust by Bullets Killing Site in Trial Documents, Collective and Environmental Memory: Case Study of Krępiecki Forest”

  • Sosland Foundation Fellowship January 1, 2025–April 30, 2025

    Project: “‘Who is an Austrian?’: Refugees in Post-World War II China and Austria”

  • Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024 - April 30, 2025

    Project: “A Global Microhistory of German-Jewish Refugees in Harbin: Integrating East Asian Refugee Communities into the History of the Holocaust.”

  • J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence September 3, 2024 – December 31, 2024 and May 15, 2025 – August 15, 2025

    Project: “Mustergau: Nazi Germanization Policy in the Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939-1945”

  • Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus Endowment Fellow January 1, 2025 - August 31, 2025

    Project: “(Non)Children's Voices of Jewish Families during the Holocaust in Ukraine"

  • Alexander Grass Memorial Fellow January 1, 2025–April 31, 2025

    Project: “Protecting the Volk: The Development of the Female Police from Weimar and Nazi to Postwar Germany”

  • American University and Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship August 1, 2022–July 31, 2025

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

  • Matthew Family Fellow September 1, 2024–December 31, 2024

    Project: “Landsmanshaftn as a Means of migrant Self-help and communities of mourning: A transnational History of Eastern European Jewish Hometown Associations during and after the Shoah”

  • Sosland Foundation Fellow September 1, 2024–February 28, 2025

    Project: “Mass Conceptions: The Holocaust and the Iconology of Crowd Design”

  • Robert A. Savitt Fellow September 1, 2024–December 31, 2024

    Project: “Material Legacies of Aid to Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland”

  • Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024–April 30, 2025

    Project: “Jews Finding Shelter Among Roma in German-occupied Poland during World War II.”

  • Bella and Murray Ressler Digital Humanities Fellow September 1, 2024– April 30, 2025

    Project: "Printed Voices and Hidden Realities: Tracing Queer Spaces and Cultures from Weimar to War's End in Germany"

  • Alexander Grass Memorial Fellow September 1, 2024–December 31, 2024

    Project: “Bonds of Intimacy and Dependency: Survival Strategies of Intermarried Families in Nazi-Dominated Europe”

  • Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024-April 30, 2025

    Project: “Mountains and Mountaineering as a Theme in Jewish Lives in the Holocaust and Holocaust Memory”

  • Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow November 1, 2024 – April 30, 2025

    Project: “Family Histories: Child Survivors and Memories of the Holocaust”

  • Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow Fellowship Period: November 1, 2024–April 30, 2025

    Project: “Between the Holocaust and the Cold War: U.S. Army War Crimes Investigations in the Soviet Zone of Germany, 1945-1947”

  • Kurt and Thea Sonnenmark Memorial Fellow June 1, 2025–July 31, 2025

    Project: “Images Displaced and Disguised:  The Holocaust Text in Eastern European Art”

  • Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow January 1, 2025–August 31, 2025

    Project: “Thick Sociability in German-occupied Vilnius”

  • Randolph and Elizabeth Braham Fellow January 1, 2025–April 30, 2025

    Project: “Prolonged Genocide: Sterilization and Castration Abuse of the Holocaust"

  • William J. Lowenberg Memorial Fellow on America, the Holocaust, and the Jews September 1, 2024–April 30, 2025

    Project: “Papers and Trails: The Holocaust and U.S. Immigration Control”

  • Ina Levine Invitational Scholar-in-Residence October 1, 2024–June 30, 2025

    Project: “Migration and Holocaust: Transnational Trajectories of Lubartów Jews Throughout the World (1920s-1950s)”