Jewish Studies Program
Jewish Studies Program

Call for Applications: UVA Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Holocaust Studies

USC

Call for Applications for the 

UVA Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Holocaust Studies

at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in Summer 2025

Deadline: January 17, 2025

About the Fellowship

UVA Jewish Studies invites UVA undergraduate students from any major to apply for the University of Virginia’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Holocaust Studies for Summer 2025 at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research.

 

Each fellowship provides $5,000 in support and will be awarded to an outstanding undergraduate student for research focused on Holocaust testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other unique USC resources.

About the Research Material

The USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive is a collection of over 58,000 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. The extensive Holocaust and Genocide Studies collection at USC Libraries contains 30,000 primary and secondary sources, including the original transcripts of the Nuremberg trials, and the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library houses the private papers of dozens of emigrants from the Third Reich, as well as private collections from Jewish Holocaust survivors and liberators.

Application Details

The recipient will be required to spend at least one month in residence at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in Los Angeles in the summer of 2025 and will be expected to be an active participant in Center activities. The recipient is responsible for securing their own travel and housing during this time. 

 

To submit an application, email the following materials to jewishstudiesprogram@virginia.edu.

 

  • cover letter (including proposed dates of residency)
  • CV
  • proposal abstract (1-3 pages)
  • writing sample

 

Also required is a recommendation letter from an academic advisor or professor with whom you have taken a course that should be submitted directly to jewishstudiesprogram@virginia.edu.

 

For questions, please contact jewishstudiesprogram@virginia.edu. Applications are due by January 17, 2025.