Josefine Langer Shohat is a PhD candidate at the Humboldt University Berlin and currently a Minerva Fellow at the Hebrew University Jerusalem. In her dissertation project, she examines transnational networks of Holocaust researchers in Europe and Israel from the 1945 to the early 1960s. Prior to coming to Jerusalem, Josefine was an Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich PhD […]

Laure Guilbert is a visiting researcher at the Centre for the History of Emotion at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris. Her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence was published in Brussels in 2000 and 2011 (Danser avec […]

Solange Manche received her doctorate from the University of Cambridge. Her thesis explores the notion of the financial subject, using new ontologies as found in the work of Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, and Frédéric Lordon. She currently teaches at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. As an EHRI fellow, she will conduct research on the […]

Zeljka Oparnica is a Jewish history fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. She received her doctoral degree from Birkbeck, University of London. Her thesis historicized Sephardi politics between 1900 and 1940. In her postdoctoral research she focuses on political minorities, different groups of political organizations including Jews, alongside the Adriatic coast between […]

Yael Robinson Gottfeld is a PhD Student at the University of Tel Aviv at the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archeology. Her research focuses on the Holocaust aftermath in Poland. In her dissertation she examines the phenomenon of intermarriage in the context of anti-Jewish violence in the first years after World War II. Yael received her MA degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and from the […]

Visar Malaj is associate professor at the Department of Economics, University of Tirana and a “CERGE-EI Foundation Teaching Fellow”. Visar earned a Bachelor’s degree (2007) and a Master’s degree (2009) from the Faculty of Statistics, University of Padua (Italy). In 2010, Visar completed his post-graduate studies in Economics and Finance at the University of Venice, […]

Verena Buser’s research focuses on the areas of Hachshara and non-Zionist emigration preparations; childhood and youth during and after the Shoah; the forced Germanization of Polish children, and Jewish functionaries under Nazi rule. Dr. Buser’s work was among others supported by the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the […]

Tehila Darmon-Malka is the Head of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Herzog College in Jerusalem. She received her PhD in 2018. Her doctoral thesis, “Between Survivors and Victims – Missing Persons After the Holocaust,” was written at Ben-Gurion University. The research included multidisciplinary aspects in an attempt to point to the issue of missing persons as […]

Tadek Markiewicz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hugo Valentin Centre, University of Uppsala. He received his PhD (International Conflict Analysis) from the University of Kent. His research focuses on the role of vulnerability and victimhood in states’ security practices. These themes are investigated in his book (forthcoming) “The Vulnerability of Strong States: Ontological […]

Nicole Toedtli is a PhD candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Geneva and an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from the University of Amsterdam and the NIOD. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked at the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial […]

Nicolas Garraud is a Ph.D. Student in History at Exeter College and a Doctoral Fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, with a specific interest in the history of every-day life under Nazi occupation in Poland. He is interested in how Jews, as a fragmented and plural community, experienced and made sense […]

Niamh Hanrahan is a Ph.D. student in the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. Her project focuses on Jewish refugees who made the journey from Europe to Japan to escape Nazi persecution and the aid networks which assisted them. 

Mirjam Neuhoff is doctoral candidate in Modern History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and researcher at the Center for Holocaust Studies (Institute for Contemporary History) in Munich. She holds a BA and MA in History and studied in Munich and Venice. Her dissertation project focuses on the perspective of the Jewish population in Italy under Fascist dictatorship […]

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 […]

Lauren Ashley Bradford is a Doctoral Candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She holds a BA in History and German Studies from Gettysburg College and an MA in European History, Politics, and Society from Columbia University. Bradford’s dissertation research is a comparative project that focuses on white and […]

Tamás Kisantal is an associate professor at the University of Pécs, Hungary. His main research fields are narrative problems of historical writing, contemporary theory of history, and artistic representations of the Holocaust. He is the author of three books on the cultural history of the Holocaust memory and representation. His last monograph, Az emlékezet és […]

Jonathan Lanz is a historian of childhood, Modern Jewish History, and the Holocaust. He is currently a fourth-year doctoral student in History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. His dissertation project examines the lives and memories of the ‘Birkenau Boys,’ a group of 89 male child survivors from the Theresienstadt Family Camp in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. […]

Jennifer Putnam is a PhD candidate in History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her PhD research focuses on prisoner graffiti in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos with the aim of enhancing our understanding of prisoners’ daily lives and prisoner agency, as well as elevating non-survivor testimony. This research has been supported by the Gerda […]

Hannah Claudia Riedler has obtained a master’s degree with a focus on Eastern European history at the University of Vienna. She is currently a doctoral student and project assistant at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. Her research interests include the occupation of Poland during the Second World War, the history of the Holocaust and […]

Hadas Gabay is a PhD student in the Department of the Arts in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a BA in the Department of Jewish Art and the Department of Educational Counseling, at Bar Ilan University, and an MA at the Department of Contemporary Judaism, Bar Ilan University. Hadas’s research focuses on the […]