Waitman Wade Beorn, Ph.D. Corcoran Department of History University of Virginia, Nau Hall 155 Charlottesville, VA 22904 email: [email protected] web: http://bit.ly/wwbeorn

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2016- Lecturer, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, V.A.

2012- 2015 Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies & Assistant Professor of History, University of Nebraska- Omaha, Omaha, N.E.

2011- 2012 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Loyola University New Orleans, L.A.

PUBLIC HISTORY, MUSEUMS

2015- 2016 Executive Director, Virginia Holocaust Museum, Richmond, V.A.

2012-2015 Executive Director, Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Education Fund, Omaha, N.E.

EDUCATION 2011 PhD in History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC “Descent into Darkness: Local Participation of the in in Belarus, 1941-2” Advisor: Christopher Browning

2007 Master’s Degree, History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC

2000 Bachelor of Science, History, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY

FELLOWSHIPS • Residence Research Grant at the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv), 2019- 2020 • Pending NEH Application: “Paths of Survival and Resettlement: Holocaust Survivors in Northern New Jersey, 1945-1954”, The Gross Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies- Ramapo College of New Jersey, 2019 • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend FT-259641-18 “Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv,” 2018 (deferred to 2019) • USH Shoah Archive Teaching Fellow, 2013-4 • Scholar in Residence, Pritzker Military Library, 2011-12 • Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-11 • National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant “Collaborative Research - Holocaust Historical GIS,” Award # 0820501 (with Tim Cole, Simone Gigliotti, Alberto Giordano, Anna Holian, Paul Jaskot, Anne Knowles, Marc Masurovsky, and Erik Steiner), 2008-2011 • Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship for Advanced Shoah Studies, 2009-10 • Fulbright Fellowship, Germany, 2008-9 • Deutscher Akedemischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Graduate Scholarship, 2008 (declined) Beorn 2

• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Grant, Goethe Institute, Freiburg, Germany, Summer 2007 • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Grant, 2006-2007 • Holocaust Education Foundation Fellowship, 2005-2006

PUBLICATIONS

Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, Harvard University Press, 2014. • Winner, Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first book, Harvard Press, 2014 • Honorable Mention, Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize for Best Book on Topic Related to the Holocaust, German Studies Association, 2015 • Finalist, Congress Award for the Best Academic Publication on Belarus-related Problems, International Congress of Belarusian Studies, 2015

Polowanie na Żydów. Zbrodnie Wermachtu, Wydawnictwo RM, 2017. (Polish Translation of Marching into Darkness)

The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution, (Bloomsbury Press, 2018)

Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (in progress)

Book Chapters Forthcoming “All the Other Neighbors: Communal Genocide in Eastern Europe,” in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Holocaust, ed. by Hilary Earl and Simone Gigliotti, Wiley Blackwell Publishers.

“Understanding the Holocaust in the Context of the Second World War,” in Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust, ed. By Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt, University of Wisconsin Press (submitted to editors)

“Unraveling Janowska: Excavating an Understudied Camp Through Spatial Testimonies,” in Beyond "Ordinary Men": Christopher R. Browning and Holocaust Historiography, ed. by Jürgen Matthäus and Mark Hornburg, Verlag Ferdinand Schoeningh (submitted to editors)

2018 “Safe Simulations? Best Practices for Exercising History in the Classroom,” in Teaching Genocide: Insights and Advice from Secondary Teachers and Professors, ed. by Samuel Totten, Rowman Littlefield, 2018. 2018 “Bodily Conquest: Sexual Violence in the Nazi East,” in Mass Violence in Nazi- Occupied Europe: New Debates and Perspectives, ed. by David Stahel and Alex Kay, Indiana University Press, 2018. 2014 “Killing on the Ground and in the Mind: The Spatialities of Genocide in Belarus” in Geographies of the Holocaust, ed. Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano, Indiana University Press, 2014. 2014 “Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Killings in Belarus,” in Lessons and

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Legacies XI: Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World, ed. Hilary Earl and Karl Schleunes, Northwestern University Press, 2015. 2011 “Genocide in a Small Place: Wehrmacht Complicity in Killing the Jews of Krupki, 1941” in The Holocaust and Local History. Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, 2011.

Journal Articles

“Drafting Testimony: Art, Space, and Evidence in Zeev Porath’s Janowska Drawings,” (in progress) 2018 “Last Stop in Lwów: Janowska as a Hybrid Camp,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol 32, Nr. 3, Winter 2018, p. 445-471 2017 “New Paths, New Directions: Reflections on 40 Years of Holocaust Studies and the GSA,” German Studies Review, vol. 39, Nr. 3, October 2016, pp. 589-599 2015 "Perpetrators, Presidents, and Profiteers: Teaching Genocide Prevention and Response through Classroom Simulation, " Special Issue: Mass Atrocity Prevention, Politics and Governance 3, Nr. 4 (2015): 72-83 2013 “The Man Who Stood in his own Grave—Twice,” The Galitzianer, Vol 20, No. 4, December 2013 2011 “A Calculus of Complicity: The Wehrmacht, the Anti-Partisan War, and the Final Solution in White Russia, 1941-42,” Central European History, Vol. 44, Nr. 2, June 2011, pp. 308-337. 2010 “Genocide in a Small Place: Wehrmacht Complicity in Killing the Jews of Krupki, 1941” Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Vol.16, No.1-2, Summer/Autumn 2010, pp.97-128 2009 “Geographies of the Holocaust” (jointly with Tim Cole, Simone Gigliotti, Alberto Giordano, Anna Holian, Paul Jaskot, Anne Knowles, Marc Masurovsky, and Erik Steiner), The Geographical Review, vol. 99, Nr. 4, October 2009 2009 "Negotiating Murder: A Panzer Signal Company and the Destruction of the Jews of Peregruznoe, 1942," Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 23, Nr. 2, Fall 2009

DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECTS AND SKILLSETS • Visualizing the Holocaust in Eastern Europe Project (2016-Present) • Faces of Auschwitz Digital Colorization project, consultant and collaborator. • The Drawings of Zeev Porath, MapScholar, 2016 • Visualizing The Janowska Camp, GIS and 3D Modeling (in preparation) • The Holocaust in Eastern Europe Mapping Project, GIS (in preparation) • Mapping Himmler’s Appointment Book, GIS (in preparation) • ARC GIS (novice level) • GEPHI (intermediate level)

PRIZES & AWARDS • Honorable Mention, Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize for Best Book on Topic Related to the Holocaust, German Studies Association, 2015 • Finalist, Congress Award for the Best Academic Publication on Belarus-related Problems, International Congress of Belarusian Studies, 2015 • Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for Best First book, Harvard University Press, 2014 • Merit Pay awardee as voted by UNO History Department Faculty, 2012, 2013 • Finalist, 2011 SMH Coffman Dissertation Prize

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GRANTS • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend FT-259641-18 “Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv,” 2018 (deferred to 2019) • UVA Bicentennial Grant (Supports exhibit designed by History of Museums Class), 2017 • Faculty Global Research with Undergrads (FGRU) Grant from the UVA Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation: “Behind the Wires: the Janowska Camp Project,” 2017 ($7,500) • Learning Technology Incubator (LTI) “Developing Effective Geo-Spatial Digital Pedagogy,” University of Virginia, 2017 ($10,000) • Visiting Scholar, Western Carolina University, 17-18 September 2015 • Sharon Abramson Research Grant for the Study of the Holocaust, Holocaust Education Foundation, 2014. • Holocaust Education Foundation Research Grant, 2009 • Summer Fellow, Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program, 2008 • Summer Fellow, Archival Summer Seminar in Germany, German Historical Institute, 2008 • Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European History, 2008 (awarded by the American Historical Association) • Society for Military History/ABC-CLIO Research Grant, 2008 • Fellow, Summer Institute in Holocaust Studies, Northwestern University, 2006

CONSULTING

2015- Present Faces of Auschwitz Documentary, Project Historian, forthcoming, in post-production

2007- Present United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

Historical • Co-Author, Holocaust Encyclopedia, 2016- • Consultant, “Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration and Complicity in The Holocaust” 2014 • Days of Remembrance Commemoration, Public Lecture, “Lessons from the Holocaust: Engaging Today’s Military” with Gretchen Skidmore, 14 April 2010

Leadership and Ethical • Consultant, Professional and Military Ethical Development Program, 2007-Present. • Workshop Facilitator, “Ordinary Soldiers: A Study in Law and Leadership Seminar,” Virginia Continuing Legal Education, 2016 • Author, Historical Resource for Military Programs, “German military During the Holocaust” • Co-author, ROTC Teaching module: “Ordinary Soldiers: A Case Study in Ethics, Law, and Leadership for Tomorrow’s Officers,” with David Frey, Jody Prescott, Jennifer Ciardelli, and Gretchen Skidmore, May 2011

2007- Present Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC, N.Y. • Scholar & Lecturer, American Service Academies Program, with the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, 2007- present • Consultant, “The Shooting of Jews in Ukraine: Holocaust by Bullets” exhibit, NYC, November 24, 2008- March 15, 2009.

INVITED TALKS & WORKSHOPS 2019 Keynote Lecture, Armstrong Lecture Series, “The Janowska Concentration Camp: The University of Criminals,” Bradley University, 6 February 2019

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2018 Workshop, “Digital Holocaust Mapping: From the Street to the Nation,” Digital Mapping and Historical Imagination, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, 17-18 May, Lviv, UKRAINE

2018 Plenary Panel, “Problematic Remembering: Lessons for America from the Holocaust,” at Learning from the Holocaust: Public Monuments, Museums, and Memory, a program of the Carolina Public Humanities, 24 March, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, N.C.

2018 Public Lecture, “Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp at the Center of the Holocaust in Galicia,” Center for the Urban History of East Central Europe, 6 March, Lviv, UKRAINE

2017 “Spatial Approaches to the Janowska Camp and the Lviv Ghetto” European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Seminar: Advanced Holocaust Studies Today: Sources and Approaches, 21 September, Lviv, UKRAINE

2017 Keynote Speaker, The Sidney & Nina Widell Annual Memorial Lecture, “"We knew then that the Jews would be shot:" The Wehrmacht's role in the Holocaust by Bullets,", Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center, 26 March, Milwaukee, W.I.

2017 “Documenting Crime and Drawing Pain: Reevaluating Art as Holocaust Testimony,” Department of Religious Studies, 28 February, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, V.A.

2017 Public lecture, “The Crimes of the Wehrmacht and the Alt-Right in American Reenacting,” Florida International University, 16 February, Miami, F.L.

2016 Plenary Speaker: “The State of Perpetrator Studies,” Lessons and Legacies XIV

2016 “Spaces of Life and Death: Mapping the Holocaust Experience in the Janowska Camp,” Creating Spatial Historical Knowledge: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Mapping History Digitally, 20-22 October, German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.

2016 Workshop, “Shades of Field Gray: Resistance to the Holocaust in the German Army,” Shoah Teaching Alternatives in Jewish Education, Museum of Jewish Heritage, 15 May, NYC, N.Y.

2015 Plenary Speaker: “Crying out from the Depths:” The Wehrmacht’s Murder of Jews in Belarus,” International Congress of Belarussian Studies, 2 October, Kaunas, LITHUANIA

2015 Keynote lecture, “Resistance and Oppression: Daily Life in The Janowska Camp,” Fall History Speaker, 2 November, Newman University, I.A.

2015 Keynote lecture, "A Deadly Hybrid: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Ukraine,” 18 September, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, N.C.

2014 Workshop, “Publishing: Reaching a Wider Audience,” Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Brown Bag Lunch, 30 July United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.

2014 “An Argument for Local History- The Holocaust in Eastern Europe,” The Holocaust as History: A Symposium in Honor of Christopher Browning, May 2, UNC-CH

2014 Public Lecture, “Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus,” 21 March, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, I.A.

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2014 Public Lecture, “Heartbreaking Scenes:” The German Army and the Murder of Slonim Jewry, Mosse Brown Bag Lecture, 28 February, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, W.I.

2014 “Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus,” 11 February, University of Montana-Billings, M.T.

2013 “Army of Darkness: Wehrmacht Complicity in the Holocaust in the Soviet Union,” Uhlman Family Seminar, 13 April, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, N.C.

2012 “Killing Mindscapes: Position, Intention, and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union,” 2-3 April, Middlebury College, V.T.

2010 Claims Conference Workshop, “Local Participation of the Wehrmacht in the Murder of Jews in Belarus, 1941,” The Persecution and Murder of Jews: Grassroots Perspectives, International Institute for Holocaust Research 3rd Annual Summer Workshop for Holocaust Scholars, 7 July, Yad Vashem, ISRAEL

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Workshops & Panels Organized 2014 Co-organizer with Wendy Lower and Stephen Tyas, Complicity and Collaboration: Definitions, Distinctions, and Debate, Summer Research Workshop, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 21 July- 1 August, Washington, D.C. 2010 Organizer, “Perpetrators and Process: Military and Gestapo Violence, 1939-1945,” panel at German Studies Association Annual Conference, 10 October 2008 Organizer, “The Geography of the Holocaust: Challenges and Opportunities” panel at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference

Conference Presentations 2018 “Visualizing the Holocaust in Eastern Europe: A Collaborative Research Project with Undergraduates,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, 29 September

2018 Research Roundtable Presentation: "Holocaust Landscapes and Memoryscapes: Spatial Reflections on a Concentration Camp," Center for Cultural Landscapes, UVA School of Architecture, 28 November

2017 “Visualizing the Lviv Ghetto,” Datapalooza 2017, University of Virginia Data Science Institute, 10 November

2016 “Killing, Deaths, and Second Deaths,” Virginia Anthropology Society, 15 November

2016 “A World Without Witnesses: The Passing of Holocaust Survivors…and How We Can Still Hear Their Voices,” Brody Jewish Center, University of Virginia, 4 May

2015 “A Hybrid Horror: The Janowska Camp and a New Categorization of Nazi Camps,” Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Virginia, 12 November

2014 “Hostile Witnesses:” Are German post-war judicial statements “testimony?” Lessons and Legacies XIII

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2013 “Murderous Mindscapes: Toward a Spatial Understanding of Complicity in the Holocaust,” American Historical Association Annual Conference

2013 “Killing Spaces: Understanding the Holocaust from a Spatial Perspective,” UNO Geography Colloquium, 14 January

2012 "Personal Holocausts: Germans, Jews, and Non-Jews in the Soviet Union, 1941-44." International Conference on World War II, Nazi Crimes, and the Holocaust in the USSR, 9 December, Moscow, USSR

2012 “Workshop: Placing the Holocaust: Researching and Teaching Geographies of the Holocaust” Lessons and Legacies XII

2011 “An Unholy Trinity: German Soldiers, Civilians, and Jews in White Russia, 1941-42,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference, 17-20 November, Washington D.C.

2011 “All those we met were to be considered partisans”: Unternehmen Dreieck-Viereck and the German War against Partisans and Jews, 1942," German Studies Association Annual Conference, 23 September 2011, San Diego, C.A.

2011 “Sex behind the Lines: Relationships between the Occupiers and the Occupied in the Soviet Union, 1941-44,” Triangle Seminar Series on the History of the Military, War, and Society Workshop- The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: Race, Gender, and Property- the Experience of Occupation at the Local Level, National Center for the Humanities, 1 April 2011, Durham, N.C.

2010 “Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Better Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus,” Lessons and Legacies XI, November 4-6

2010 “Hunting Jews in Szczuczyn: The Wehrmacht’s Internalization of Anti-Jewish Policy in Belarus, 1941,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, 10 October

2010 “Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Better Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus,” American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, 16 April

2009 “A Calculus of Complicity: The Wehrmacht, the Anti-Partisan War, and the Final Solution in White Russia, 1941-42,” Seventy Years On: New Perspectives on the Second World War, 31 August-2 September, Banff, Alberta, CANADA

2008 Roundtable: “The Geography of the Holocaust: Challenges and Opportunities,” American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, 15 April

Invited Public Presentations 2016 “Discussion of Nazi Anti-Gay Policy,” Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia performance of For a Look or a Touch, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 29 February Richmond, V.A.

2015 “Drawing Inhumanity: The Art of Zeev Porath and the Janowska Camp,” 5400 Club, Weinstein Jewish Community Center, 7 December Richmond, V.A.

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2015 “The Past is Not past: Reflections on Historical and Future Genocide,” Emek Shalom Holocaust Memorial Cemetery Kristallnacht Commemoration Ceremony, 8 November, Richmond, V.A.

2014 ““Ruthlessly and mercilessly:” The German Army and the Holocaust,” Beth David Synagogue, Holocaust Education Week 2014 sponsored by UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, 6 November. Toronto CANADA

2014 “Hateful Organizations? The Case of the German Army in the Holocaust,” Why People Hate Lecture Series, First Lutheran Church, 19 March, Omaha, N.E.

2014 “A Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus,” UNO Golden Circle, 7 February, Omaha, N.E.

2014 “A Culture of Cruelty: What we can learn from the German Army and the Holocaust,” Boys Town, 17 January, Omaha, N.E.

2013 “Marching into Darkness:” Book Lecture and Signing, Virginia Holocaust Museum, 18 December, Richmond, V.A.

2013 “Auschwitz: A History of the Camp from Incarceration to Extermination,” KIOS FM, Omaha Public Radio, Noon Forum, 15 July

2013 “Liberators,” in the Pritzker Military Library’s Citizen Soldier series, 28 March, Chicago, I.L.

2012 “The General William P. Levine Project,” Pritzker Military Gala, 27 October, Chicago, I.L.

2012 “Grounds for Murder—The Local Participation of The German Army in the Holocaust,” Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont, 4 April, Burlington, V.T.

2012 “The Third Company: A Lesson in Military Ethics and the Holocaust,” Coast Guard Academy Ethics Forum, 23 March, New London, C.T.

2011 “Lessons from the Eastern Front: The Wehrmacht, the Holocaust, and Military Ethics,” Coast Guard Academy Ethics Forum, 25 March, New London, C.T.

2010 “Before Auschwitz: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union,” Yom Hashoah Keynote Speech, Congregation Beth-Israel, 11 April Fayetteville, N.C.

Radio, Newspaper, Digital Media 2019 Guest on Richard French Live, WRNN, 14 May 2019 2019 Guest on CNN, “Right Now with Brianna Keilar,” 13 May 2019 2019 “I led a platoon in Iraq. Trump is wrong to pardon war criminals.” Washington Post, 9 May 2019. Also appeared in 11 May print edition. 2019 “When bad actors twist history, historians take to Twitter. That’s a good thing,” Washington Post, 19 March 2019 2018 “Networked Hate: A Social Media Analysis of the Baraboo, Wisconsin Hitler-Salute Controversy,” The New Fascism Syllabus (online), 21 November 2018 2018 “U.S. put its Silent Sams on pedestals. Germany honored not the defeated but the victims,” Washington Post, 11 September 2018 2018 “It’s not wrong to compare Trump’s America to the Holocaust. Here’s why,” Washington Post, 16 July 2018

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2018 “Zeev Porath Chronicled Nazi Rapists And Other Atrocities - In His Drawings" Forward, 22 June 2018 2018 “Yes, you can call the border centers ‘concentration camps,’ but apply the history with care,” Washington Post, 20 June 2018 2018 Quoted in “Did Trump Echo Hitler by Calling Undocumented Immigrants ‘Animals’?” Snopes.com, 21 May 2018 2017 “Lecturer creates interactive map of Nazi ghetto, concentration camp” Cavalier Daily, 2 November 2017 2017 “Digital map helps historians get granular with Holocaust Research”, UVA Today, 17 October 2017 2017 Quoted in New York Magazine, 3 September 2017 2017 Quoted in “A Short History of Torches and Intimidation,” Forbes, 15 August 2017 2017 “UVa lecturer: Lee Park chant has Nazi roots,” Daily Progress, 20 May 2017 2017 “Speaker to shed light on lesser known aspect of Holocaust,” Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, 2 March 2017 2014 Marching into Darkness Book Interview: New Books in History, New Books Network Podcast, 10 January 2014 2013 “Beorn searches for answers in the lives and geographies of the Holocaust,” A&S: A Newsletter of the College and Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Dec 2013 2013 “Gift enables professor to discuss the evil that men do” University of Nebraska Foundation Newsletter, 26 March 2013 2011 “Exclusive: Marines Nazi-Flag Whistleblower Comes Forward,” Mother Jones, 11 February 2011

Film • Primary On-Screen Historical Expert for “Faces Of Auschwitz” Documentary, 2018 (in post- production) • Onscreen expert for documentary film “Hitler: The Rise and Fall”, Arrow Media, 2015 • Onscreen expert and Consultant, “Remembered Voices” Documentary, Nebraska Public Television, 2012- 2013

Book Reviews: Have reviewed monographs for The American Historical Review, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, European History Quarterly, German History, Central European History, Global War Studies, German Studies Review, Journal of Contemporary History

Encyclopedia Entries and Textbook Work United States Holocaust Museum Online Encyclopedia (2016- Present) “Brandt, Karl” in Human Medical Experimentation: From Smallpox Vaccines to Secret Government Programs, edited by Frances R. Frankenburg. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2017. Multimedia Course Reader (Primary Sources) for CenGage Publishing (forthcoming) “Hitler” and “Holocaust Denial,” encyclopedia entries in Mason, Patrick L., ed. The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2nd Ed. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2013. “Barbarossa Decree,” “Brandt, Karl,” “Death Squads,” “Extermination Centers,” Jedwabne, massacre in” in Mikaberidze, Alexander, ed. Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013.

Guest Blogs • “Organizational Cultures and the Conditions for Atrocity,” Harvard University Press Blog, 11 December 2013 • “Our Mothers, Our Fathers…learned their lesson?” Assessing Atrocity, 16 Jul 2013

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TEACHING University of Virginia, 2016- Present • HIEU 3559: Modern European History: 1789-1918 • HIEU 3692: The Holocaust • HIEU 3380: A History of Antisemitism (new course) • HIST 3300: Curating the Past: The History of the Museum (new course) • HIST 3559: Digital History (new course) • ISLS 3150: History of Genocide • ISSS 3383: The Dark Side of the Twentieth Century • HIST 1501: Killing in the Courtroom- Mass Atrocities, War Crimes, and the Law (new course) • HIST 3542: The Second World War • HIEU 2002: Western Civilization • HIEU 3604: The Holocaust on Film (new course)

University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2012-2015 *Instrumental in developing a Holocaust and Genocide Studies Minor at UNO Undergraduate • HIST 4720: History of the Holocaust (Graduate/Undergraduate) • HIST 4910/8916: Comparative Genocide (Graduate/Undergraduate) (new course) • HIST 2990: History of Eastern Europe • HIST 3930: Historical Methodology- A History of Violence in Europe, 1500-2000 • HIST 2580: Modern Germany • HIST 1010: World Civilizations II, 1500 to Present Graduate • HIST 9100: Readings in the Holocaust (new course) • HIST 9100: Readings in German History (new course)

Loyola University New Orleans, 2011- 2012 • History of the Jews in Europe • Modern European History, 1914-1945 • World Civilization to 1500 • World Civilization 1500-Present

STUDENT PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC PLACEMENTS • University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD Program, Mosse Scholarship • Fulbright Undergraduate Research Fellowship (Ukraine) • UVA Distinguished Majors Program (2) • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2) • Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Internship • Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC Internship • Weatherspoon Museum of Art • Claude Moore Colonial Farm • UVA Law Library: Special Collections and Archives

SERVICE • Reviewer, NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grant Program • Reviewer, UVA NEH Applications, 2018 • Student Advisor and Mentor for Distinguished Majors Program, 2016-Present

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• Executive Director, Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust Education Fund Board, 2012-2015 • Advisory Council, Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, UNO, 2012-2015 • Co-Organizer, European Studies Conference, UNO, 2012-2015

PEER REVIEWER (Articles, Books, and Manuscripts) • American Historical Review • Holocaust and Genocide Studies • Oxford University Press • Cornell University Press • Yale University Press • German Studies Review • German History • Central European History • Journal of Contemporary History • International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research • Bloomsbury Academic Press • History: Reviews of New Books

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS: • American Historical Association • German Studies Association • American Association of Geographers • Association of Slavic and Eastern European Studies • Gesher Galicia

LANGUAGE COMPETENCY: German, French, Russian (novice), Polish (novice)

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