Fellowships - USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research

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Call for Applications:
Greenberg; Katz; Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowships for PhD Candidates

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites applications from postdoctoral scholars for its 2017-2018 Research Fellowships for PhD candidates.

Each fellowship provides $4,000 in support and will be awarded to an outstanding advanced- standing Ph.D. candidate from any discipline for dissertation research focused on testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources. The recipient will be required to spend one month in residence at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research during the 2017-2018 academic year.

Award decisions for these fellowships will be based on the originality of the research proposal and the potential to advance research with testimonies in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive or other unique genocide research resources at USC. 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 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. USC is the home of internationally unique and growing research resources, including the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA). The VHA holds over 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and other eyewitnesses of the Holocaust, the Rwandan, Guatemalan and Armenian genocides, and the Nanjing Massacre in China. The interviews were conducted in 41 languages and in 62 countries. (For more information: cagr.usc.edu.)

To submit an application, please send a cover letter (including proposed dates of residency), CV, proposal abstract (1-3 pages), writing sample, and recommendation letter from your PhD advisor to cagr@usc.edu by December 15, 2016.

Please visit https://sfi.usc.edu/cagr/fellowships for the full CFAs for these fellowships