Maayan Armelin is a doctoral candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University and a Claims Conference fellow. Her research looks at social relations and leadership styles in the SS-Einsatzgruppen by combining historical and psychological approaches.

Naama Seri-Levi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History  of  the  Jewish  People  and  Contemporary Jewry, and a fellow  of  the  Mandel  School  for Advanced  Studies  in  the  Humanities, both at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Sarah Ellen Zarrow is the Jaffe Professor of Jewish History at Western Washington University. Her research focuses on Jewish museums and education in interwar Poland.

Steffen Werther is Senior Lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University, Sweden. He is interested in German and Scandinavian history, with a focus on nationalism, racial theory, memory studies and (Neo-)Nazi movements and ideologies.

Anne Chardonnens is currently a PhD candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles and a member of the Center for Research in Information and Communication Sciences (ReSIC).

Vojin Majstorovic received his PhD from University of Toronto in 2017. His research focuses on Soviet involvement in the Balkans and Central Europe in the 1940s.

Anna (Hanna) Abakunova currently is an advanced-standing doctoral researcher in Holocaust History at the University of Sheffield (supported by the Wolfson Scholarship) and an associate tutor for the undergraduate course “The Making of the Twentieth Century”. The title of her thesis is “The Rescue of Jews and Roma in Ukraine during the Holocaust”.

Jakub Gawkowski is an art critic, curator and a graduate student at the History Department of Central European University. He studied at the University of Warsaw and the University of Silesia, from where he graduated with a degree in Art History.

Lukas Meissel is a PhD candidate in Holocaust Studies at Haifa University, his doctoral project analyses photographs taken by SS men at concentration camps.

Anna Veronica Pobbe is a PhD-candidate at University of Trento.

Karen Porter is a PhD Candidate at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She received her MSc in The Second World War in Europe from the University of Edinburgh in 2014.

John R. Barruzza is a PhD candidate studying Modern European History at Syracuse University (New York, USA). Previously, he completed an MPhil in Modern European History at Syracuse University and an MA in European History at Villanova University (Pennsylvania, USA). His primary fields of research are modern and contemporary Italy, the Holocaust, and memory.

Alexandru Muraru, PhD in Political Science (2012), is Researcher and Lecturer in Political Science at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania.

Magdalena Semczyszyn is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Szczecin, Poland. She is working on a project entitled “Illegal Jewish immigration from Poland to Palestine after the Second World War (1945–1948)”.

Rachel Perry is a research fellow at the Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Research at the University of Haifa. She lectures in the Weiss-Livnat Graduate Program in Holocaust Studies at Haifa University as well as in the Art History department at Tel Aviv University. She completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in the department of Art History with a dissertation on art in France during the Occupation and Reconstruction.

Susanna Schrafstetter received her PhD from the University of Munich in 1998. She has been a member of the faculty at the University of Vermont since 2009, serving as both a professor in the Department of History and as a member of the Miller Center for Holocaust Studies.

Florian Zabransky is a doctoral student at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex. Since October 2017, he holds the Clemens N. Nathan Scholarship for his study on ‘Male Jewish Intimacy during the Holocaust’.

Anca Filipovici is a researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj, Romania. She holds a PhD in history (2013) at the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj, on a topic related to education and local culture in northern Moldavia.

Philipp Dinkelaker, M.A. studied Modern History, Ancient History and Philosophy and recently published his master's thesis about the Sammellager Synagoge Levetzowstraße - a detention camp for Jews in Nazi-Berlin.

Ronnen Harran is a PhD Candidate at the Jewish History department of the University of Haifa, Israel. His research The characteristics of the process of liquidating the Jewish communities in the Generalgouvernement in 1942-3 concers the process of liquidating the Jewish communities in the Generalgouvernement of occupied Poland during the notorious 'Aktion Reinhard'.

Elysa McConnell is a Ph.D candidate in History at the University of Ottawa. During her time at the CDEC she will be conducting research for her project The Holocaust in the Triveneto Borderlands: A study of the Jewish communities of Venezia Tridentina and Venezia Giulia under Fascist persecution and Nazi occupation, 1938-1945.

Katarzyna Kocik -  is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Jewish Studies,  Jagiellonian University. She is an employee at the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków, co-author of the temporary display Zegota- the Hidden Aid, a member of the research group preparing an exhibition at the memorial site of the former ZAL/KL Plaszow camp.

Daniela Ozacky-Stern has submitted her Ph.D. dissertation to the department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa. Her research deals with the Jewish Partisans in Lithuania and West Belarus during World War II and the Holocaust, 1941 – 1944 and is based mostly on about 300 personal testimonies of former partisans which she had collected in various archives in Israel and around the world.

Zoé Grumberg is currently a PhD candidate in contemporary history at  the Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po Paris (CHSP), under the supervision of Claire Andrieu. She graduated from Sciences Po Paris in June 2014 and successfully achieved the Agrégation d’histoire - French highest competitive exam which qualifies for teaching at high school and university - in 2015. At Sciences Po, she lectures a BA course on the political commitment in France in the twentieth century.

Anne-Lise Bobeldijk is a PhD candidate at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the University of Amsterdam, where she currently works on her research project “Competing narratives of victimhood in the age of transitional justice: The history and memory of the terrorscape Maly Trostenets”.

Bieke Van Camp, PhD student, Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France.

Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel is since May 2014 research fellow and coordinator at the Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies in Halle.

Emmanuelle Moscovitz is a PHD student at the University of Tel Aviv. The topic of her dissertation is the work of Jewish chaplains in French internment camps 1940-1945.

Inés Valle Morán (Spain) is an historian, postdoctoral researcher, and academic assistant at the Department of Contemporary History in the Faculty of Geography and History at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

Nick Underwood received his PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in modern European and Jewish history.

András Szécsényi is an historian, museologist and visiting lecturer. Szécsényi’s interests focus primarily on the history of the Horthy-era (youth movements, right-wing associations at the universities, and the Jewish question) and the social history of the Hungarian Holocaust.

Uta Rautenberg, PhD Candidate, University of Warwick, ‘Homophobia in Nazi Camps’.

Pavlo Khudish, Ph.D. is the assistant lecturer at the Uzhhorod National University at the department of the History of Ukraine (Uzhhorod, Ukraine). His is working on a project entitled: “Jews from Transcarpathia in the migration processes between Czechoslovakia and the USSR (1945-1948)”.

Caroline Cormier is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, where she also received her M.A. in the Department of Geography and Planning in 2010.

Sarit Bruno is a research and content oriented, writing professional, with a specific focus on writing and curating digital content: online exhibitions, articles, stories and films.

Dr Ildikó Barna is Associate Professor of Sociology at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Faculty of Social Sciences in Budapest where she also serves as a Head of the Department of Social Research Methodology. She received a PhD in Sociology from ELTE in 2009.

Roslyn Sugarman joined the Sydney Jewish Museum in late 2005 to guest curate the exhibition for the 60th anniversary of Liberation from the Concentration Camps.

Hannah Wilson, Current PhD Student at Nottingham Trent University, UK. MA in Holocaust Studies from University of Haifa, Israel. 

­­­Kylie Thomas is a Research Associate at the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State, South Africa. “Amsterdam’s ‘Hunger Winter’ and the Photographs of Emmy Andriesse.”

Cristina Spinei is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in German Studies at the University of Iasi (Romania).

Astrid Ley, deputy head of Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum (Brandenburg Memorials Foundation), Oranienburg, Germany, " Inmate physicians in concentration camps: the conditions in which they lived, the scope for action available to them, and the dilemmas they faced".
 

Gergely Kunt Ph.D. is a social historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Miskolc, Hungary.

Andrea Kirchner, PhD Candidate, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main/ Germany; Research Fellow, Rosenzweig Center Hebrew University Jerusalem/Israel, "Richard Lichtheim (1885–1963) − From Constantinople to Geneva. A Political Biography".

Alexis Herr has researched, published, and taught courses on the Holocaust, genocide, and Jewish studies. She received her doctorate in Modern European History with an emphasis on Holocaust History from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University. 

Anna-Raphaela Schmitz (Germany), PhD candidate University of Munich, and research assistant and doctoral student at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich,  “Rudolf Höß – Work Behaviour, Interpersonal Relations and Private Life of a Concentration Camp Commandant".

Yurii Radchenko (Ukraine), Lector, Kharkiv Collegium, "Hilfspolizei, Self-government and the Holocaust in Ukrainian-Russian-Belorussian Borderland: Motivation, Identity, Collective Portrait and Memory".

Ron Coleman, reference and systems librarian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Tracing Refugee Assistance Networks Using Case Files".

Mark Zaurov, PhD Student, Institut für Deutsche Gebärdensprache und Kommunikation Gehörloser (IDGS), Hamburg University, "a.) Deaf Holocaust Testimonies: Analyse of Video interviews b.) Deaf survivors: Archive sources & structure".

Raquel Stepak, researcher at the Laura Schwarz Kipp Center for Hebrew Literature and Culture, Tel-Aviv University, "There Are No Black Flowers by T. Carmi: An OSE Home for Child Survivors and Its Literary Representation".

Marta Zawodna, postdoctoral researcher, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, Institute of Sociology, "Ways of handling the remains of Dachau camp victims in a comparative perspective. Content analysis of press articles published from the liberation of the camp to the sixties".

Laurien Vastenhout (the Netherlands), PhD student University of Sheffield, “The Jewish Councils of Western Europe under Nazi Occupation: A Comparative Analysis”.

Lonneke Geerlings (The Netherlands), PhD candidate, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, "The Transnational Ego-Network of Rosey E. Pool (1905-1971). Dutch-German Contacts in 1930s Berlin in the Resistance Group Van Dien".

Raul Cârstocea, Senior Research Associate, European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), Flensburg, Germany; “From the radical fringe to the mainstream: anti-Semitic representations in the interwar Romanian press, 1923-1941”.

Ionela Ana Dascultu completed her MA in Jewish Culture and Civilization at the University of Bucharest, Romania and is now a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Angela Boone, independent researcher and supervisor, "German Jewish refugees in the Netherlands: Deportation of Holocaust survivors to Germany by the Dutch government in the period 1945-1950"