Emerging Scholars Program

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies’ Emerging Scholars Program helps promising young scholars who are either writing their dissertations or working on postdoctoral projects to publish their first books.

Supporting Young Scholars

A successful publication can determine the trajectory of a scholar’s career, yet young scholars often face many obstacles, including a lack of familiarity with the publishing process as well as fierce competition due to the economic constraints on academic presses. In the “publish or perish” world of academia, the Emerging Scholars Program is the only program—nationally or internationally—that provides the indispensable mentoring, academic, and financial support to enable young Holocaust scholars to attain their career goals. 

Shaping How the Holocaust is Understood and Taught

These early-career scholars will play critical roles at colleges and universities and help determine how the public will understand and teach the Holocaust in the coming decades. They will be the mentors of generations of students and scholars, educating them about the ethical issues raised by the Holocaust, the dangers of antisemitism and Holocaust denial, and the questions we must ask about individual and social responsibility in a free society.

Recent Publications

Since its founding in late 2009, the Emerging Scholars Program has worked closely with more than 70 young scholars, helping them write strong publication proposals, refine sample chapters, and identify the best editors and publishers for their manuscripts. Many of these scholars have received book contracts or have proposals under consideration by various highly respected academic presses. Recent publications include:

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  Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities: A Politics of Silence

  (Redwood City, California: Stanford University Press, March 2019)
  Adam Knowles, 2017-2018 Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow
  (Ph.D., New School for Social Research)

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  German Foreign Intelligence from Hitler’s War to the Cold War: Flawed Assumptions and Faulty Analysis

  (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, January 2019)
  Robert Hutchinson, 2012-2013 Norman Raab Foundation Fellow
  (Ph.D., University of Maryland)

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  Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony

  (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, July 2018)
  Hannah Pollin-Galay, 2015–2016 Phyllis Greenberg Heideman and Richard D. Heideman Fellow
  PhD, Tel Aviv University

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  The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust

  (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, October 2017)
  Ion Popa, 2012–2013 Ausnit Fellow
  PhD, University of Manchester

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  Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany

  (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, May 2017)
  Noah Strote, 2013–2014 Raab Foundation Fellow
  PhD, University of California at Berkeley

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  The Jews of Nazi Vienna, 1938–1945: Rescue and Destruction

  (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, May 2017)
  Ilana Offenberger, 2005–2006 Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellow
  PhD, Clark University

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  Nazi-Organized Recreation and Entertainment in the Third Reich

  (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, May 2017)
  Julia Timpe, 2013–2014 Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow
  PhD, Brown University

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  Holocaust Education in Lithuania: Community, Conflict, and the Making of Civil Society

  (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, March 2017)
  Christine Beresniova, 2014–2015 Takiff Foundation Fellow
  PhD, Indiana University

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  Budapest Building Managers and the Holocaust in Hungary

  (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, October 2016)
  Istvan Pal Adam, 2012–2013 Tziporah Wiesel Fellow
  PhD, University of Bristol

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  Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music

  (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, October 2016)
  Kirsten Dyck, 2013–2014 Cummings Foundation Fellow
  PhD, Washington State University

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  Holocaust Angst: The Federal Republic of Germany & American Holocaust Memory since the 1970s

  (New York: Oxford University Press, August 2016)
  Jacob S. Eder, 2010–2011 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow
  PhD, University of Pennsylvania

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  Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life

  (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, April 2016)
  Petra Schweitzer, Participant in another Mandel Center program
  PhD, Emory University

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  Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp

  (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, October 2015)
  Mark Celinscak, 2012–2013 Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellowship
  PhD, York University, Toronto, Canada

  Winner, 2016 Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature, Non-fiction

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  Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation

  (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, October 2015)
  Daniella Doron, 2006–2007 Life Reborn Fellow for Research on Displaced Persons
  PhD, New York University

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  Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia

  (New York: Oxford University Press, August 2015)
  Anika Walke, 2009–2010 Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance Research Fellow
  PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz

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  Reframing Holocaust Testimony

  (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, July 2015)
  Noah Shenker, 2006–2007 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow
  PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

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  Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires: Balancing Memory, Architecture, and Tourism

  (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, December 2014)
  Brigitte Sion, 2008–2009 David and Fela Shapell Fellow
  PhD, New York University

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  Jewish Pasts, German Fictions: History, Memory, and Minority Culture in Germany, 1824-1955

  (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, March 2014)
  Jonathan Skolnik, 2011–2012 Sosland Foundation Fellow
  PhD, Columbia University

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  Holocaust Memory Reframed: Museums and the Challenges of Representation

  (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, March 2014)
  Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich, 2008–2009 Diane and Howard Wohl Fellow
  PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

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  The Construction of European Holocaust Identity: German and Polish Cinema after 1989

  (Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang - International Academic Publishers, August 2013)
  Malgorzata Pakier, 2009–2010 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow
  PhD, European University Institute, Florence

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  Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust

  (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, June 2013)
  Corry Guttstadt, 2008–2009 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow
  PhD, University of Hamburg, Germany

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  The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa: A Community in Belarus, 1625–2000

  (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, March 2013)
  Albert Kaganovitch, 2009–2010 Matthew Family Fellow
  PhD, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

  Winner, 2014 Helen & Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Scholarship

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  Anti-Nazi Modernism: The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction

  (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, December 2012)
  Mia Spiro, 2009–2010 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow
  PhD, York University, Toronto, Canada

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  The Photography of Crisis: The Photo Essays of Weimar Germany

  (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, November 2012)
  Daniel Magilow, 2005–2006 Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow
  PhD, Princeton University, USA

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  Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany

  (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, May 2012)
  Christopher Probst, 2008–2009 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow
  PhD, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom

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  The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany

  (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, January 2012)
  Tomaz Jardim, 2007–2008 Diane and Howard Wohl Fellow and 2009–2010 Laurie and Andy Okun Fellow
  PhD, University of Toronto, Canada

  Winner, 2013 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association