The EHRI Fellows for 2012

Tuesday, March 6th, 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:

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).  She is […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. Since May 2010, she has been working on the Ph.D. project ‘Dutch WWII memorial camps as contested space’ at […]

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′. […]

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 […]

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. His research focuses primarily on the Hungarian Holocaust and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]