The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU) awards Sharon and Earl Abramson Research Grants to support research related to the Holocaust. Doctoral candidates nearing completion of their dissertations and scholars from all disciplines and career stages (including independent scholars) are eligible for this grant, which supports activities conducted during the academic year (September to September) following the award of the grant. Funding does not cover indirect costs (IC) or a facilities and administration (F&A) percentage.
Visit the application page for more information and to apply. The deadline is in mid-February each year.
2026 Recipients
Noah Benninga
The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
“Holy Disobedience: Stanisław Musiał SJ and the Memory of the Holocaust in Poland”
Natalie Bernstien
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
“Entangled Histories of Twentieth-Century Tangier: Muslims, Jews, Refugees, Spaniards & Nazis in Morocco’s International City”
Maverick Huneycutt
University of South Carolina - Columbia, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
“The Architecture of Control: Choiceless Choices on American Plantations and in Nazi Ghettos”
Harry Legg
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom “Jewish ‘Social Death’ In Nazi Germany: Testing Contemporaneous and Post-war Testimony”
Joanna Spyra
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom; University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
“Sorting Lives and Afterlives: Emotional Geographies of Survival at Trawniki”
Anna Viana, Bárbara Deoti, Maria Visconti
NEPAT - Brazilian Center for Nazism and Holocaust Studies, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
“NEPAT Learning Lab: An Open-Access Holocaust Repository in Brazil”
