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Waitman Wade Beorn, Ph.D. Contact Information Corcoran Department of History University of Virginia, Nau Hall 155 Charlottesville, VA 22904 email: [email protected] web: http://waitmanwadebeorn.com/ EMPLOYMENT • Lecturer, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, 2016- Present • Executive Director, Virginia Holocaust Museum, 2015- 2016 • Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies & Assistant Professor of History, University of Nebraska- Omaha, 2012- 2015 • Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Loyola University New Orleans, 2011- 2012 EDUCATION • PhD, History, 2011, 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 • Master’s Degree, History, April 2007, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC • Bachelor of Science, History, June 2000, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS • 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) • 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 • Visiting Scholar, Western Carolina University, 17-18 September 2015 • Sharon Abramson Research Grant for the Study of the Holocaust, Holocaust Education Foundation, 2014. • USH Shoah Archive Teaching Fellow, 2013-4 • Merit Pay awardee as voted by UNO History Department Faculty, 2012, 2013 • Scholar in Residence, Pritzker Military Library, 2011-12 • Finalist, 2011 SMH Coffman Dissertation Prize • Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-11 • Fulbright Fellowship, Germany, 2008-9 • Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship for Advanced Shoah Studies, 2009-10 • Holocaust Education Foundation Research Grant, 2009 • National Science Foundation 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 • Deutscher Akedemischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Graduate Scholarship, 2008 (declined) • Fellow, Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program, 2008 Beorn 2 • Participant, 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 • Organizer, “The Geography of the Holocaust: Challenges and Opportunities” panel at the American Association of Geographers Annual Conference, 2008 • Fellow, Summer Institute in Holocaust Studies, Northwestern University, 2006 • 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 AND PRESENTATIONS Books Published • Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, Harvard University Press, 2014. Awards: o Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first book, Harvard Press, 2014 o Honorable Mention, Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize for Best Book on Topic Related to the Holocaust, German Studies Association, 2015 § Laudatio: “Dr. Beorn’s research draws on an impressive array of archival and testimonial material, acquired during visits to Eastern Europe. His extraordinary book not only explores, in great detail and through use of examples, how the killers’ complicity grew over time, but it also analyzes the widespread myth of the Jewish Bolshevik partisan, propagated in order to inspire and legitimize the killings. Throughout the book, Dr. Beorn integrates evidence and reflection with notable fluidity, never avoiding the thorniest issues.” o 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) Books in Preparation • Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (in progress) Book Chapters • “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. • “Walking in the Footsteps of the Vanished: Using Physical Landscapes to Understand Wehrmacht Participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in Belarus,” in Lessons and Legacies XI: Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World, ed. Hilary Earl and Karl Schleunes, Northwestern University Press, 2015. • “Genocide in a Small Place: Wehrmacht Complicity in Killing the Jews of Krupki, 1941” in The Holocaust and Local History. Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, 2011. 2 Beorn 3 Book Chapters in Preparation or Pre-Publication • “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 (forthcoming September 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 (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 (forthcoming). • “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 (in preparation) • “Unraveling Janowska: Excavating an Understudied Camp Through Diverse Testimonies,” in Festschrift for Christopher Browning, ed. by Jürgen Matthäus and Mark Hornburg (in preparation) Journal Articles • “Last Stop in Lwów: Janowska as a Hybrid Camp,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, ca. Spring 2019 • “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 • "Perpetrators, Presidents, and Profiteers: Teaching Genocide Prevention and Response through Classroom Simulation, " Special Issue: Mass Atrocity Prevention, Politics and Governance 3, no. 4 (2015): 72-83 • “The Man Who Stood in his own Grave—Twice,” The Galitzianer, Vol 20, No. 4, December 2013 • “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 • “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. • “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 • "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 Journal Articles in Preparation or Prepublication • “Drafting Testimony: Art, Space, and Evidence in Zeev Porath’s Janowska Drawings,” (in progress) Digital Humanities Projects and Skillsets • The Holocaust in Lviv: An International Collaboration with the Center for the Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv (Ongoing) • The Drawings of Zeev Porath, MapScholar, 2016 http://viseyes.org/mapscholar/?1116 • The Prisoners of the Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lwow, GIS and 3D Modeling (in preparation) • Mapping Einsatzgruppen Killings, GIS (in preparation) 3 Beorn 4 • Arc GIS (novice level) International Conference Presentations • “Spatial Approaches to the Janowska Camp and the Lviv Ghetto” European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Seminar: Advanced Holocaust Studies Today: Sources and Approaches, Lviv, Ukraine, 21 September 2017 (invited) • Plenary Speaker: “Crying out from the Depths:” The Wehrmacht’s Murder of Jews in Belarus,” International Congress of Belarussian Studies, 2 October 2015 (invited) • "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, Moscow, 9 December 2012 • “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, Yad Vashem, 7 July 2010 Conference Presentations • Plenary Speaker: “The State of Perpetrator Studies,” (Lessons and Legacies XIV), 6 November 2016 (invited) • “Spaces