Past Recipients
Past Recipients of the Holocaust Educational Foundation Sharon Abramson Research Grant
2023 Recipients
Jeremy Best
Iowa State University of Science and Technology
"Ghosts in the Game: Shoah Presence and Absence from Wargames"
Violeta Davoliute
Institute for International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University
"The Holocaust perpetrator in local memory: Examples from Lithuania"
Niamh Hanrahan
University of Manchester
"Beyond Europe: Jewish Refugee Journeys and Humanitarian Aid in Japan"
Samuel Huneke
George Mason University
"We Will Not Abandon Each Other: Lesbians in the Third Reich"
Maja Kruse
University of Maine
"Influences of the Landscape on German Actions and Victim Agency"
Alexandra Masgras
Duke University
"Eugenic Architecture: Right-Wing Politics and the Design of Healthy Bodies"
Alice Weinreb
Loyola University Chicago
"Anorexia Nervosa and the Weight of the Holocaust"
2022 Recipients
Claire Aubin, Graduate Student
University of Edinburgh
"‘From Treblinka to Trenton’: Holocaust Perpetrators as Immigrants to the US"
Tiarra Cooper, Graduate Student
University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Experiences of Women Forcibly Sterilized under the Nazi Regime, 1933-1945"
Julia Elsky, Assistant Professor
Loyola University Chicago
"Ionesco and Esslin: Theaters of War"
NEPAT, Brazilian Center for Nazism and Holocaust Studies
Maria Visconti, Graduate Student
Bárbara Deoti, Research Assistant
Anna Viana, Research Assistant
“Forgotten voices: a study case of Holocaust memory in Brazil”
Steven Samols, Graduate Student
University of Southern California
“Capturing Difference, Making History: The Photobook as a Jewish Artefact”
Carli Snyder, Graduate Student
City University of New York, Graduate Center
“′The Flesh of the Facts': Toward A Feminist Holocaust Consciousness”
Alternate Awardee:
Kamil Kijek, Assistant Professor
Taube Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wroclaw
"The Long Durée and the Microhistory of the Holocaust: The Kielce Province"
2021 Recipients
Marilyn Campeau, Teaching Assistant
University of Toronto
“Soviet “Liberators” and the Aftermath of the Holocaust in Germany, 1945–1949”
Patrick Chura, Professor
University of Akron
“Recovering the Source of Albert Maltz's Suppressed Holocaust Novel”
Anthony Foreman, Graduate Student
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
“Military Honor and the Holocaust”
Raphael/le Linden, Graduate Student
New York University
“It Wasn’t Us: An Autofictional Exploration of Holocaust Remembrance, Legacies of Trauma, and American Jewish Identity”
Caroline Riley, Research Associate and Lecturer
University of California, Davis
“Thérèse Bonney’s Photography: The Intermedial Syndication of Art, the Body, and War from 1920 to 1970”
Judith Vöcker, Graduate Student
University of Leicester
“’In the Name of the German Nation’ The German jurisdiction in Warsaw and Radom during the Nazi occupation of the General Government (1939-1945).”
2020
Gaelle Fisher, Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich
“Making Sense of Catastrophe: The Jewish Leadership in Romania 1938-1948”
Emil Kjerte, Graduate Student
Clark University
“Ustaša Killing Specialists: The Personnel of the Jasenovac Camp Complex”
Aliza Luft, Assistant Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
“Sacred Treason: How French Bishops Defected From Vichy to Save Jews During the Holocaust”
Nick Underwood, Assistant Professor
College of Idaho
“Plural Jewish Communities: Yiddish Culture and Jewish Migration in Post-Holocaust France”
Kerry Wallach, Associate Professor and Chair
Gettysburg College
“Rahel Szalit-Marcus, a Jewish Artist in Berlin and Paris”
Alternate Awardees
Simon Goldberg, Graduate Student
Clark University
“Writing and Rewriting the History of the Kovno Ghetto”
Elysa McConnell, Graduate Student
University of Ottawa
“Fascist Italy and the ‘Other’: Italianization and the Holocaust in the Triveneto Borderlands, 1918-1948”
2019
Laurie Marhoefer, Associate Professor of History
University of Washington
“Homosexuality, Transgender, Fascism and the Holocaust: A New History”
Danijel Matijevic, Doctoral Candidate in History and Jewish Studies
University of Toronto
“The Holocaust and Mass Violence in Croatia, 1939-47: Regional and Temporal Variations”
Lukas Meissel, Doctoral Candidate in Holocaust Studies
University of Haifa
“The Visible and the Absent. SS-Photographs from Nazi Concentration Camps”
Benjamin Nestor, Doctoral Candidate in History
Marquette University
“Einsatzgruppe C in the District Galicia: Ideology, Situational Violence, and Mass Murder”
Alissa Schapiro, Doctoral Candidate in Art History
Northwestern University
“Lest We Forget: American Art, Visual Culture, and Antisemitism during World War II”
Alternate Awardee
Paula Chan, Doctoral Candidate in History
Georgetown University
“Eyes on the Ground: Soviet Investigations of the Nazi Occupation”
2018
Marie-Dominique Asselin, Doctoral Candidate in History
University of Ottawa
“Jewish Life under Investigation: the Role of Polish Courts in the Fate of Jews during the German Occupation (1939-1943)”
Robin Buller, Doctoral Candidate in History
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Sephardi Immigrants in Paris: Navigating Community, Culture, and Citizenship in Interwar and Vichy France, 1918-1945”
Rebecca Clifford, Associate Professor of Modern European History
Swansea University
“The Lingfield Children: Child Survivors, Psychoanalysis, and Holocaust Memory”
Lovro Kralj, Doctoral Candidate in History
Central European University
“Paving the Road to Death: Antisemitism in the Ustasha Movement (1929-1945)”
Rachel Perry, Professor of Art History
Haifa University, Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Research
“The ‘Nazi Crimes’ Exhibition at the Grand Palais in 1945: the Antifascist Museum of the Future”
Alternate Awardee
Jelena Subotic, Associate Professor of Political Science
Georgia State University
“Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism”
2017
Evgeny Finkel, Assistant Professor
Georgetown University
“Holocaust Survivors in Israel’s War of Independence”
Sara Halpern, PhD Candidate
The Ohio State University
“Good-bye Shanghai!: The Emigration of European Jewish Families, 1945-1951”
Vojin Majstorovic, PhD Candidate
The University of Toronto
“The Red Army and the Holocaust”
Valentina Rozas-Krause, PhD Candidate
University of California – Berkeley
“Excavating Urban Memory: Finding the Ordinary and the Extraordinary in Cityscapes of Apology”
Michal Shaul, Post-doctoral Fellow
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Sedimentation of Survivors, Sedimentation of Memory, and Sedimentation of Migration”
2016
Natalia Aleksiun, Associate Professor
Touro College
“Daily Survival: Social History of Jews in Hiding in Eastern Galicia”
Laura Hobson Faure, Associate Professor
Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III
“Becoming Survivors: A Transnational History of Jewish Child Refugees in France and the United States, 1938-2015”
Adam Knowles, Assistant Teaching Professor
Drexel University
“Layers of Complicity: The Nazification of Philosophy in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks”
Christina Matzen, PhD Candidate
University of Toronto
“Women’s Prisons in Twentieth-Century Germany: Gendered Punishment from the Kaiser to the Cold War”
Michelle Penn, PhD Candidate
University of Colorado at Boulder
“The Extermination of Peaceful Soviet Citizens: Aron Trainin, the Holocaust, and the Concept of Genocide”
2015
Natalya Lazar, PhD Candidate
Clark University
“Czernowitz Jews and the Holocaust: Interethnic Relations, Violence and Survival in a Borderland City, 1941-1946”
Maris Rowe-McCulloch, PhD Candidate
University of Toronto
“The Holocaust in a City under Siege: Jewish Life, Occupation, Mass Violence and Genocide in Rostov-on-Don”
Sari Siegel, PhD Candidate
University of Southern California
“Between Coercion and Resistance: Jewish Prisoner-Physicians in Nazi Camps, 1938-1945”
Jared McBride, Visiting Assistant Professor
Columbia University
“Killing Neighbors: The Undoing of Multi-Ethnic Western Ukraine in World War II”
Joanna Michlic, Lecturer
University of Bristol
“More than the Milk of Human Kindness: Jewish Survivors and their Polish Rescuers Recount their Tales, 1944-1949”
Peter Staudenmaier, Assistant Professor
Marquette University
“Nature and Genocide: Ecological Dimensions of the Nazi Racial Project”
2014
Kimberly Partee Allar, PhD Candidate in History and Holocaust Studies
Clark University
“Training Nazi Camp Guards: Dachau, Ravensbrück and Trawnicki in Comparison”
Waitman Beorn, Assistant Professor of History and Holocaust and Genocide Studies
University of Nebraska – Omaha
“Into the Sands – The Janowska Concentration Camp”
Luca Fenoglio, PhD Candidate in History
University of Edinburgh
“The ‘Everyday Life’ of Persecution: The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Italian-occupied Southeastern France”
Natalie Mathieson, PhD Candidate in Jewish Studies and Drama, Theater, and Performance Studies
University of Toronto
“Playing for Survival: A Cultural History of Performance in Nazi Camps during the Shoah”
2013
Rececca Carter-Chand, Ph.D. Candidate in History
University of Toronto
Justin Pfeifer, Ph.D. Candidate in History
The University of Toledo
Malgosia Wloszycka, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Southampton
2012
Laura E. Brade, Ph.D. Candidate in Modern European History
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Amy Michele Smith, Joint Ph.D. Candidate in Judaic Studies and History
Yale University
2011
Jacob Eder, Ph.D. Candidate in History
University of Pennsylvania
Victoria Khiterer, Assistant Professor of History
Millersville University
Benjamin Thorne, Ph.D. Candidate in East European History
Indiana University
2010
Elizabeth Anthony, Ph.D. Candidate in History
Clark University
Alexis Herr, Ph.D. Candidate in History
Clark University
Raz Segal, Ph.D. Candidate in History
Clark University
2009
Frank Adler, G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science
Macalester College
Waitman Beorn, Ph.D. Candidate in History
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jeffrey Koerber, Ph.D. Candidate in Holocaust History
Clark University
Amy Simon, Ph.D. Candidate in History
Indiana University
Vladimir Solonari, Associate Professor of History
University of Central Florida
2008
Monika J. Flaschka, Professor of History
Kent State University
Charles B. Lansing, Associate Professor of History
University of Connecticut
Elizabeth Harrington Lambert, Ph.D. Candidate in History
Indiana University
Eric C. Steinhart, Ph.D. Candidate
University of North Carolina
2007
Mira Binford, Professor of Holocaust History
Quinnipiac University
Elizabeth Covington Strauss, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Notre Dame
Richard Frankel, Assistant Professor of History
University of Louisiana-Lafayette
Thomas Weber, Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania
2004
Jeffrey Burds, Associate Professor of History,
Northeastern University, “Images of Hate: Soviet Collaborators in the German War Against Anti-Bolshevism”
Sarah Cushman, Ph.D. candidate in Holocaust History
Clark University, “The Women of Birkenau”
Rachel Iskov, Ph.D. candidate in Holocaust History
Clark University, “Jewish Family Life in the Lodz and Warsaw Ghettos”
Benn Williams, Ph.D. candidate in History
University of Illinois-Chicago, “Denunciation in the Lyon Region, 1940-53”
2003
Stephen Connor, Ph.D. candidate in history
Wilfred Laurier University, “German Civil Administration in the Occupied Soviet Union, 1941-44”
Valerie Hebert, Ph.D. candidate in history
University of Toronto, “The High Command Case and the Myth of the Clean Hands of the Wehrmacht.”
Karl Schleunes, Professor of History
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, “The Nazi Assault upon German Jewry, 1933-39”
Julija Sukys, postdoctoral fellow in comparative literature
Northwestern University, “Lifewriting and the Vilna Ghetto”
2002
Beth Cohen, Ph.D.candidate, Holocaust Studies
Clark University, “Holocaust Survivors in the United States, 1945-55”
Michelle Erickson, Ph.D. candidate, French
New York University, “The Transmission of Memory in French Literary and Videotaped Holocaust Testimony”
Wulf Kansteiner, Assistant Professor of History
SUNY-Binghamton, “The Holocaust on German Television”
Katrin Paehler, Ph.D. candidate, History
American University, “Ideology in the Making and Unmaking of the German Intelligence Service”
Kevin Spicer, Assistant Professor of History
Stonehill College, “Nazi Priests”
Christine van der Zanden, Ph.D candidate, Holocaust Studies
Clark University, “Jewish Refugee Life on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon”