Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowships

Website: www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/
Application deadline: the deadlines for current application cycles have passed.  Please consult the Website for the most current information.

The Center awards fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. Awards are granted on a competitive basis. The Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all relevant disciplines including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, psychology, comparative genocide studies, law and others.

Visiting scholars at the Center have access to more than 42 million pages of Holocaust-related archival documentation; the Museum's extensive library; oral history, film, photo, art, artifacts, and memoir collections; and Holocaust survivor database. Many of these sources have not been examined by scholars, offering unprecedented opportunities to deepen knowledge about the Holocaust and further advance the field of Holocaust studies.

In addition to pursuing their own projects, fellows at the Center work side by side with other new and established Holocaust scholars from the United States and abroad, enabling them to test their ideas, share their research findings, debate methodological or interpretive approaches, and develop comparative frameworks for their projects.

The Center’s weekly fellows meetings and senior seminar programs provide unique settings for debate and discussion. Fellows participate in the Center’s broad array of scholarly programs and outreach activities at universities and other academic institutions, both locally and nationally.

In addition to the fellowship competition, each year the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council invites two distinguished scholars in the field of Holocaust Studies to take up residency at the Center as the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence and the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar.

Contact information:
Dr. Lisa Yavni
(202) 314-7829
visiting_scholars@ushmm.org