Center Announces Calls for Applications for Research Fellowships

The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites applications for its research fellowships for senior scholars, advanced-standing PhD candidates, and USC undergraduate and graduate students. Fellowships are open to scholars from any discipline and anywhere in the world. All fellowships support research with the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and related USC resources and collections, which you can read more about below. Each fellow is required to spend a period in residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in Los Angeles, California. 

Please share these opportunities widely with those who might be interested.

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Call for Applications from Senior Scholars

2023-2024 Center Research Fellowship

The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites applications from senior scholars for its 2023-2024 Center Research Fellowship. The Center is reestablishing this fellowship for senior scholars after a hiatus of several years. The fellowship was established in 2014 and last bestowed in the 2018-2019 academic year.

The fellowship provides $30,000 (one semester) support and will be awarded to an outstanding senior scholar from any discipline who will advance genocide research through the use of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and related USC resources and collections. The chosen fellow will be required to spend the Fall or Spring semester in residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in Los Angeles during the 2023-2024 academic year, to provide the Center with fresh research perspectives, to play a role in Center activities, and to give a public talk during the stay.

The deadline for applications is January 31, 2023.

Read the full Call for Applications here.

Download the Call for Applications here.

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Call for Applications from PhD Candidates

2023-2024 Research Fellowships for PhD Candidates:
Greenberg Research Fellowship
USC Shoah Foundation Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies
Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship

The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for three research fellowships for advanced-standing PhD candidates. Each fellowship provides $4,000 support and will be awarded to an outstanding advanced-standing PhD candidate from any discipline for dissertation research focused on testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and related USC resources and collections.

Each chosen fellow will be required to spend one 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, to play a role in Center activities, and to give a public talk during the stay.

The deadline for applications is January 31, 2023.

Read the full Call for Applications here.

Download the Call for Applications here.

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Call for Applications from USC Students

Summer 2023 Lev Student Research Fellowship

The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals from USC undergraduate students and USC graduate students for the 2023 Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides $1,500 support for USC undergraduate students or $3,000 support for USC graduate students conducting research focused on the testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and related USC resources and collections.  The fellowship is open to USC undergraduate students and USC graduate students of all disciplines.

The chosen fellow will be required to spend one month in residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in Los Angeles during the summer of 2023, to play a role in the activities of the Center, and to give a public presentation based on their work and findings during the following academic year (2023-2024). 

The deadline for applications is April 2, 2023.

Read the full Call for Applications here.

Download the Call for Applications here.

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USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive

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 Rwandan, Armenian, Guatemalan, Cambodian genocides, the Nanjing Massacre in China, anti-Rohingya mass violence, and war and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The majority of testimonies are life history 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, 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. 

Explore the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive here.

 

Related USC Resources and Collections

Related internationally unique and growing genocide research resources at USC include the extensive Holocaust and Genocide Studies collection at USC Libraries, which contains 30,000 primary and secondary sources including the original transcripts of the Nuremberg trials and the materials of the New York Life Insurance settlement regarding the Armenian genocide. Unique primary sources in the Special Collections at USC include the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, which also houses the private papers of dozens of emigrants from the Third Reich, as well as private collections from Jewish Holocaust survivors and liberators.

Read more about the Holocaust and Genocide Studies collection here.

Read more about Special Collections here.

Read more about the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library here.