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Call for applications from PhD candidates
Greenberg Research Fellowship
USC Shoah Foundation Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies
Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellowship
2023-2024
Deadline: January 31, 2023
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Studies is inviting proposals for three research fellowships for advanced doctoral students: the 2023-2024 Margie and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship; 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies; and the 2023-2024 Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship.
Each fellowship provides $4,000 in support and will be awarded to an outstanding advanced doctoral student from any discipline for dissertation research focused on evidence from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources.
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 Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in Los Angeles during the 2023-2024 academic year. Each fellow will be expected to provide the Center with fresh perspectives, play a role in the Center’s activities, and to give a public report during the stay.
Award decisions for each 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 the genocide at 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.
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Studies distinguishes itself from other Holocaust and genocide research institutes by offering access to unique research resources and by focusing its research efforts on the interdisciplinary study of currently understudied areas. (For more information, visit our website here.)
Applications are submitted to 31 January 2023.
To submit an application:
Email the following materials to cagr@usc.edu or upload them to the Scholarships page of the Center’s website. (Visit https://dornsife.usc.edu/cagr/fellowships, click on the fellowship you are interested in, and click Apply.)
- cover letter (including proposed dates of residence)
- CV
- proposal summary (1-3 pages)
- writing sample
- letter of recommendation from your doctoral student (Your advisor can send the letter of recommendation directly to cagr@usc.edu.)
Each submission will be considered for all three scholarships, so only one set of materials is required.
For questions, please contact cagr@usc.edu.
Download the invitation to apply here.
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