Miranda Brethour is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. Her dissertation, "Faithful German Servants" or "Good Polish Citizens"? Violence, the Village Elder, and Daily Life in Interwar and Occupied Poland, traces the history of Polish village elders from the Second Republic to the postwar years, focusing on their participation in anti-Jewish violence during the German occupation in the Lublin region.