The EHRI Fellows for 2012

Tuesday, 6 March, 2012

EHRI has a fellowship programme (read more about the programme >> ). Between 2010-2014, every year twelve researchers were invited to stay for a period of four weeks to two months at an EHRI partner institute. The call for applications for 2012 was issued in the summer of 2011 and circulated widely. Overall 75 applicants from 22 countries applied for an EHRI fellowship. An international panel of experts selected the researchers on the basis of their research programmes. Here we present the EHRI Fellows for 2012:

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Institute for Contemporary History, Munich

Lida Barner is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London (UCL). She studied for her MA in Socio-cultural Anthropology, History and the Study of Religions at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. She also has an MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from the University College London (UCL). 

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Jewish Museum in Prague

Laura Brade is now a Ph.D. Candidate in Modern European History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), from which she also holds a Master’s Degree in History. She received her Bachelor’s Degree (2008) in History and German Language and Literature from the Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA (USA). In 2011, she was a fellow at Yad Vashem, Israel. During her EHRI fellowship, she is conducting research for her dissertation project, ‘Forced Voluntary Migration: Jewish Flight from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-1941’.

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Institute for Contemporary History, Munich

Marco Carynnyk is a writer, editor, translator, and historical researcher. As a writer he has published poetry and articles and essays on literature, film, and 20th century history and politics. His historical studies are concerned with the famine of 1933 in Ukraine, with Soviet and German politics in Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s, and Polish-Jewish-Ukrainian relations.

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Jewish Museum in Prague

Nina Paulovicova is currently a contract instructor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. She received her Master’s at the University of Konstantin Philosopher in Nitra, Slovak Republic. She completed a program in Holocaust Studies for Educators from Abroad at the International School for Holocaust Studies in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem in 2002. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 2012.

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Shoah Memorial, Paris

Iris van Ooijen is a Ph.D. candidate and lecturer at the Arts and Culture Department of VU University in Amsterdam. She holds Master’s degrees in Dutch Law and Cultural Heritage Studies from the University of Amsterdam.

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NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam

Susanne Barth is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oldenburg (Germany) where she also received a Master’s Degree in History and Political Sciences. At the Netherland’s Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) she will be conducting research for her dissertation project: 'The Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke AG and the Auschwitz subcamp of Blechhammer, 1939-1945'.

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Linda Margittai

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam

Linda Margittai is a Ph.D. student in Modern History at the University of Szeged, Hungary. She received a Master's Degree in History from the University of Szeged. Her research interests lie primarily in the anti-Semitic laws in Hungary. In her dissertation project she investigates in depth the implementation and effects of the anti-Jewish laws and decrees in a regional comparative analysis with Southern Hungary and the so-called Southern Province re-annexed from Yugoslavia.

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Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Istvan Pal Adam is a doctoral research student of the Bristol University. He received a master's degree in history from the Central European University, after which he completed the Paideia Jewish Studies Program in Stockholm. He also took part in a compensation program for Holocaust survivors.

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Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Kimberly Partee Allar is now a Ph.D. Candidate in Holocaust and Modern European History at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Partee Allar received her BA in History at Amherst College in Amherst, MA. For her EHRI fellowship at Yad Vashem, she is conducting research on her dissertation, 'Lessons in Terror and Death: Comparative Studies in the Training of Holocaust Perpetrators', which focuses on the methodological, psychological, and ideological training of concentration camp guards from 1933-1945, taking into account gender, age, and ethnicity.

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Shoah Memorial, Paris

Frida Bertolini received her Master's Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature from the University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Italy, and a Master's Degree in Contemporary History from the University Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna. Currently she is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of History, Anthropology and Geography at the University of Bologna, in co-tutorship with the University Paris X-Nanterre, France.

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Shoah Memorial, Paris

Nathan Kurz is now a Ph.D. Candidate in Modern Jewish history at Yale University. He received a Master's Degree in history from Yale and a Bachelor's Degree from Stanford University. He has earned many fellowships in the USA and from Haifa University. During his fellowship at the Mémorial de la Shoah, he will be conducting research for his dissertation project, '"A Sphere Above the Nations?" Human Rights and the Limits of Jewish Transnational Politics,1945-1975'.

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Shoah Memorial, Paris

Jennifer L. Rodgers is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in both Philadelphia and Munich. She received a Master of Arts degree in History from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and European Studies from American University. For her European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Fellowship at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris, France, Ms. Rodgers is conducting research for her dissertation: 'From the "Archive of Horror" to the "Shop Window of Democracy": The International Tracing Service and the Transatlantic Politics of the Past in the Cold War Era'.

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