Applications are due on December 31, 2022.

USC Shoah Foundation invites applications from advanced-level PhD candidates for the 2023-2024 USC Shoah Foundation Robert J. Katz Research Fellowship in Antisemitism Studies.

The fellowship is open to candidates from any university and from all disciplines. It provides $4,000 in support and year-long access to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (VHA) for conducting research about antisemitism, including its causes, representations, and consequences. In addition, the Institute will cover the fellow’s registration costs for an academic conference of their choice for the selected fellow to share their research with wider scholarly community during the 2023/2024 academic year.

The fellow will be expected to spend one month in residence at the Institute during the 2023/2024 academic year. During their residency, the fellow will be expected to produce a research report based on their findings, to write an op-ed for the Institute’s website, to give a public presentation about their work at the end of the residency, and to participate in the activities at the Institute. Additional outputs will be determined in consultation with the selected fellow based on the nature of their project.

The fellowship project can focus on either historic or contemporary antisemitism, or both, and should rely on oral history testimonies housed in the VHA and/or other related Institute and USC resources and collections.

Award decisions for the fellowship will be based on the originality of the research proposal and the centrality of the Institute’s and other USC resources to the research project. While the Institute welcomes all proposals, it is especially interested in applied research proposals whose goal is to examine the existing or propose new solutions for countering antisemitism in all its forms.

All proposals need to be either grounded in or make use of testimony (traditional and its derivatives, such as the Institute’s Dimensions in Testimony), and preference will be given to interdisciplinary research projects.

More info in the Call for Applications

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