Samuel and Evelyn Linden Scholarship in Jewish Studies for the Study of Peace and Social Justice in the Middle East 

The Samuel and Evelyn Linden Scholarship allows both undergraduate and graduate students at the University to engage in advanced research, study, fieldwork, and project organization to help understand and promote dialogue, peace, and justice among Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinians. The mission of the scholarship is to nourish scholarly excellence combined with citizenship, social responsibility, and work towards intercultural understanding. Successful applications will propose a course of study, a research project, or a creative program that is at home both inside and outside of academia, involves real-life communities, and exposes the applicant to rigorous learning as well as to human encounter. Scholarships, which range from $3,000–$3,500, may be used towards study and research in any field, encouraging a wide range of methods and approaches.

UVA Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Holocaust Studies at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research in Summer 2025

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.

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.

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.