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Curriculum Vitae 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 Wehrmacht in the Holocaust 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 Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus,” in Lessons and 2 Beorn 3 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 3 Beorn 4 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,
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