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The USC Shoah Foundation invites applications from advanced doctoral candidates for the 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies.
This fellowship is one of three fellowships available to advanced doctoral candidates from any university and any academic discipline whose dissertation research focuses on evidence from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources. Read more about the other scholarships here.
The USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies provides support of $4,000 and will be awarded to an outstanding advanced doctoral student in any discipline for dissertation research focused on evidence from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other resources of USC.
The USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive is a collection of over 55,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides, including the genocides in Rwanda, Armenia, Guatemala, Cambodia, the Nanjing Massacre in China, mass violence against the Rohingya, and war and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The majority of the testimonies are life interviews in which interviewees discuss their lives before, during and after genocide and mass violence. With interviews conducted in 65 countries and in 44 languages, the testimonies capture both the individual experience of mass violence and the social and cultural history of the 20th century on a global scale. Learn more about the Visual History Archive and its collections here.
The recipient will be required to spend a month in residence at the USC Shoah Foundation and the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in Los Angeles during the 2023-2024 academic year. Each fellow will be expected to provide the USC Shoah Foundation and the Center with fresh perspectives, to play a role in the activities of the USC Shoah Foundation and Center and to give a public talk during the stay.
Award decisions for the fellowship will be based on the originality of the research proposal and its potential to advance research with evidence in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive or other internationally unique and growing research resources at USC, including the Holocaust Studies Collection and genocide in the Doheny Memorial Library with 30,000 primary and secondary sources and a special collection containing the private papers of German and Austrian Jewish émigrés, including Leon Feuchtwanger, of the Third Reich.
Applications are submitted to 31 January 2023.
Read full application instructions here.
Download the invitation to apply here.
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