Call for Applications: 2016-2017 Greenberg Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates

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Call for Applications

Greenberg Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates
2016-2017

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites research proposals from advanced standing Ph.D. candidates for its 2016-2017 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship.

The fellowship provides $4,000 support for dissertation research focused on testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. The incumbent will spend up to one month in residence at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research during the 2016-2017 academic year.

Award decisions for this fellowship will be based on the originality of the proposal and its potential to advance research with testimonies in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. The fellow will be expected to provide the Center with fresh perspectives, to play a role in Center activities, and to give a public talk during the stay.

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research distinguishes itself from other Holocaust and Genocide institutes by offering access to unique research resources and by focusing its research efforts on the interdisciplinary study of currently under- researched areas. (For more information: cagr.usc.edu.)

USC is the home of internationally unique and growing research resources, which include over 53,000 audio-visual testimonies of genocide survivors at the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, a Holocaust and genocide studies collection at Doheny Memorial Library with 14,000 primary and secondary sources, and a Special Collection containing private papers of German and Austrian Jewish emigrants, including the writer Lion Feuchtwanger, from the Third Reich.

To submit an application, please send a cover letter, CV, proposal abstract (1-3 pages), writing sample, and recommendation letter from your PhD advisor by February 29th, 2016 to cagr@usc.edu.