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Hybrid Fellowship with The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

June 1

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to announce a new hybrid research fellowship opportunity as a part of the Broadening Academia Initiative. Successful applicants will receive six (6) months of remote access to the Museum’s digitized archival collections and will be invited for one (1) week of in-person research at the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center, which houses the Museum’s world-class archival and artifact collections. The period of the fellowship will run from 1 October 2024 to 31 March 2025. Please note that this is a non-residential fellowship.

Application Materials and Guidelines

The application closes June 1, 2024. Applicants will be notified of outcomes by July 2024. 

Qualifications

  • Applicants must have earned a PhD.
  • Applicants must be North American-based Holocaust scholars who are untenured, contingent, or working outside of academia.
  • Applicants must propose an original research project related to the field of Holocaust studies.

 Application Instructions

Competitive applications will include proposals that demonstrate a clear understanding of existing research and where the proposed project contributes to the field.

Applications must be submitted in English via our online application and consist of the following:

  1. an online application form
  2. a current CV
  3. a short summary of the research project and its contribution to the field of Holocaust studies (no more than three double-spaced pages)
  4. a list of specific collections that the applicant plans to access during the research week at the Shapell Center

Contact Information

Broadening Academia Initiative

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW

Washington, DC 20024-2126

Contact Email

bai@ushmm.org

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