“Justice for the Jews? A Comparative Analysis of Polish and Ukrainian Trials of Local Collaborators with the Holocaust”
Professional Background
Dr. Louisa McClintock received her PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in 2015. She received her MA in Russian area studies from Harvard in 2005 and MA in sociology from the University of Chicago in 2007. She has language skills in English, Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish, and Italian. While in residence at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Dr. McClintock will work on her project, “Justice for the Jews? A Comparative Analysis of Polish and Ukrainian Trials of Local Collaborators with the Holocaust”.
Dr. McClintock presented “Coping with Genocide While Constructing a State: Poland and the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi War Crimes” at the 10th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars in Siena, Italy in June, 2013, as well as “Constructing Collaboration While Building a State: Polish Communist Elites, Recycled Legal Personnel and the Punishment of War Criminals, Collaborators, and Traitors to the Polish Nation, 1944-1946” at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, California in August, 2014. She was the recipient of a number of honors and awards, which include the Henderson Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Chicago in 2014 and the IIE Mellon Graduate Fellowship for International Study in 2011. From 2015-2017, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
Fellowship Research
For her Fred and Maria Devinki Memorial Fellowship, Ms. McClintock used the Museum’s archival collections pertaining to post-war investigations and trials of local collaborators in Poland and Soviet Ukraine to explore the context of the punishment of collaborators in the Holocaust within each country’s larger post-war project of punishment, and also to illuminate how these processes were shaped by each country’s reaction and embracement of the practice of socialism.
Ms. Louisa McClintock was in residence at the Mandel Center until November 30, 2017.