Fellows in residence at the Museum are building on the work of their predecessors to reveal new information and offer new perspectives about the Holocaust. The opinions of fellows expressed before, during the course of, or after their activities with the Mandel Center are their own and do not represent and are not endorsed by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum or its Mandel Center.

  • Noë Bourdeau

    Noë Bourdeau

    Summer Graduate Student Research Fellow
    June 1–August 31, 2023

    Project: “‘I am jeopardizing everyone wherever I go, as a man or as a woman, it doesn’t make any difference’: Toward a Trans* History of the Holocaust”

  • Sandra Gruner-Domić

    Sandra Gruner-Domić

    Manya Friedman Memorial Fellowship
    April 1–July 31, 2023

    Project: “Lost in the Andes? Jewish Refugees migration to Bolivia 1937-1950” 

  • Benjamin Holt

    Benjamin Holt

    Summer Graduate Student Research Fellow
    June 1–August 31, 2023

    Project: “Les Jeunes Résistants: Young Jewish Communists in the French Resistance”

  • William Jones

    William Jones

    Alexander Grass Memorial Fellowship
    January 1–August 31, 2023

    Project: “’So then...he raped me’: Male Experiences of Sexual Violence During the Holocaust”

  • Olga Kartashova

    Olga Kartashova

    Manya Friedmann Memorial Fellowship
    June 1–July 31, 2023

    Project: “The International Networks and Jewish Efforts to Prosecute Nazi Criminals in Poland”

  • Pragya Kaul

    Pragya Kaul

    Kurt and Thea Sonnenmark Memorial Fellow
    June 1–July 31, 2023

    Project: “Refugees in Empire: Jewish Refugees in British India”

  • Julie Keresztes

    Julie Keresztes

    American University and Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
    August 1, 2022–July 31, 2024

    Project: “Photography and the Making of the Nazi Racial Fantasy, 1933-1950”

  • Johanna Lehr

    Johanna Lehr

    Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellow
    April 1–July 31, 2023

    Project: “Gendered Persecution, Gendered Responses: Jewish Women facing Repression in Paris 1941–1944”

  • Jacquelyn “Jackie” Olson

    Jacquelyn “Jackie” Olson

    Summer Graduate Student Research Fellow
    June 1–August 31, 2023

    Project: "Whose Dead Are They?: The Agency of Living Jewish Relatives on Memory Policy in Austria and Germany" 

  • AJ Solovy

    AJ Solovy

    Robert A. Savitt Fellowship
    June 1–July 31, 2023

    Project: “After Hitler: An Experiential History of SS Members in the Postwar World, 1950-2010”

  • Vesta Svendsen

    Vesta Svendsen

    Summer Graduate Student Research Fellow
    June 1–August 31, 2023

    Project: “‘Sovietization’ on the Eve of the Nazi Invasion: Brest, Belarus, 1939–1941”