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Dwork, June 2015 DEBÓRAH DWORK (current to June 2015) Strassler Center for Holocaust Tel: (508) 793-8897 and Genocide Studies Fax: (508) 793-8827 Clark University Email: [email protected] 950 Main Street Worcester, MA 01610-1477 EDUCATION 1984 Ph.D. University College, London 1978 M.P.H. Yale University 1975 B.A. Princeton University EMPLOYMENT 1996- Director Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Rose Professor of Holocaust History Professor of History Clark University 1991-1996 Associate Professor Child Study Center, Yale University 1989-1991 Visiting Assistant Professor Child Study Center, Yale University 1987-1989 Assistant Professor Department of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health University of Michigan 1984-1987 Visiting Assistant Professor Dept. of History, University of Michigan (1984-86) Dept. of Public Health Policy (1986-87) 1984 Post-Doctoral Fellow Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. - 1 - Dwork, June 2015 GRANTS AND AWARDS 2015-16 Grant, Cathy Cohen Lasry (Clark University administered) 2009-11 Grant, Shillman Foundation 2007-08 Grant, Shillman Foundation 2003-05 Grant, Tapper Charitable Foundation 1993-96 Grant, Anonymous Donor (Yale University administered) 1994 Grant, New Land Foundation 1993-94 Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation 1992-94 Grant, Lustman Fund 6-8/1992 Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities 1991-1992 Grant, Lustman Fund 1-9/1989 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1-6/1988 Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies 1988 Grant, Rackham Faculty Grant for Research (Univ. of Michigan) 6-9/1987 Grant, American Philosophical Society 6-9/1985 Fellow, Wellcome Trust 1984 Fellow, Smithsonian Institution 1979-1983 Fellow, Wellcome Trust PUBLICATIONS Books A Boy in Terezín: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner, Introduction and annotations. (Evanston, IL.: Northwestern University Press, 2011). Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946, Co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt (N.Y.: Norton, 2009). Calmann-Lévy, Mémorial de la Shoah series [French edition], 2012; Grand Livre du Mois selection. Uitgeverij Elmar [Dutch edition], 2012. Chosen selection by History Book Club, Military Book Club, Book of the Month Club, 2. ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award Finalist. The Terezín Album of Mariánka Zadikow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008) An annotated, edited, facsimile edition, with historical introduction. Holocaust: A History, Co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt (N.Y.: Norton, 2002); London: John Murray [British edition], 2003; Uitgeverij Boom [Dutch], 2003; Imago Editora [Portuguese edition], 2004; EDAF [Spanish edition], 2004. Recorded for the Blind and Dyslexic (RFB&D) in 2005. Holocaust was chosen by Publisher’s Weekly for its Non-fiction Best Books List for 2002. Chosen selection by the History Book Club and Traditions Book Club; Finalist, National Jewish Book Award. Voices and Views: A History of the Holocaust, an edited, annotated, and illustrated collection, with introductions, is a scholarly project undertaken for public service. (N.Y.: Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, 2002). It serves as the cornerstone text for the JFR’s national Holocaust Education program and has been adopted by a number of - 2 - Dwork, June 2015 education programs throughout the country. Distributed: University of Wisconsin Press. Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present, Co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt, (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996 and revised and updated edition 2008; London: Yale University Press [British edition], 1996; Uitgeverij Boom [Dutch], 1997 and revised, updated edition published by Verbum in 2015; Pendo [German], 1998; Argo [Czech], revised, expanded edition, 2006; Warsaw: Swiat Ksiazki [Polish], 2011). The Dutch edition was supported by the Prins Bernhard Fonds in recognition of its “major contribution to Dutch culture.” The German edition was voted the number 1 title on the (German) National Book Critics list for November, 1998 and Newsweek (August 2009) voted it one of the Ten Best Books About Poland during World War II. Emmy-award nominee documentary based on this work, “Auschwitz: The Blueprints of Genocide,” produced by the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) and aired both in Britain and in the US as "Nazi Designers of Death" on the “Nova” program. Central source for BBC seven-part series, “Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State,” directed by Laurence Rees. Recipient of the National Jewish Book Award and the Society of Architectural Historians’ Spiro Kostoff Award. Children With A Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991); Beck Verlag [German], 1994; Marsilio Editori [Italian], 1994; Uitgeverij Boom [Dutch], 1998; Sogen Sha [Japanese], 1999). Finalist, National Jewish Book Award. Recorded as a cassette book by the Library of Congress for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Documentary based on this work and called "Children With A Star" produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC). Central source for two television network after school special programs for children on the Holocaust. Excerpt from German edition included in a national school curriculum for high school education on the Holocaust. Excerpt included in 2001 Holocaust Remembrance Project Teacher's Resource Guide web site. War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children: A History of the Infant and Child Welfare Movement in England, 1898-1918 (London: Tavistock, and New York: Methuan, 1987). Book Chapters, Articles, and Short Monographs “To Work with the History of the Holocaust,” in Ivana Macek, ed., Engaging Violence: Trauma, Memory, and Representation (Routledge, 2014). “Raising their Voices: Children’s Resistance through Diary Writing and Song,” in Patrick Henry, ed., Jewish Resistance to the Nazis (Washington, DC: Catholic University Press, 2014). “Rescue,” in The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies, eds. Peter Hayes and John Roth (Oxford and N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2011). - 3 - Dwork, June 2015 “Refugee Jews and the Holocaust: Luck, Fortuitous Circumstances, and Timing,” in Jewish Perspectives on the “Forced Emigration” Period (1938/39 to 1941) until Deportation and Ghettoization, eds. Susanne Heim, Beate Meyer, Francis Nicosia, (Wallstein-Verlag, 2010). “The Challenges of Holocaust Scholarship: A Personal Statement,” in Voices of Scholars, ed. Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs (Cracow: Jagiellonian University Center for Holocaust Studies, 2009). Auschwitz and the Holocaust, The Hugo Valentin Lectures IV, Uppsala University (Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2007). “Sala’s World, 1939-1945: Sosnowiec, Schmelt’s Camps, and the Holocaust,” in Letters to Sala (N.Y.: New York Public Library, 2006), pp. 51-77. Co-authored with R. J. van Pelt. “Auschwitz,” Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Ketter Publishing, 2006). Co- authored with R. J. van Pelt. “Foreward,” in Harry Mulisch, Criminal Case 40/61: An Eyewitness Report on the Eichmann Trial, trans. Robert Naborn (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), ix – xxiv. “A Distant Shore: The Holocaust and Us,” Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Spring 2005. Co-authored with R. J. van Pelt. “Agents, Contexts, and Responsibilities: The Massacre at Budy,” in Catastrophe and Meaning: Rethinking the Holocaust at the End of the 20th Century, eds. Moishe Postone and Eric Santer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 154- 69. “Die verschlungene Strasse in Auschwitz,” (co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt), in Bruchlinien, ed. Gertrude Koch, (Köln and Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1999), 181-200. “Custody and Care of Jewish Children in the Post-War Netherlands: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Hegemony,” in Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust III: Memory, Memorialization, Denial, ed. Peter Hayes (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999), 109-137. “The Politics of a Strategy for Auschwitz-Birkenau,” (co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt), Cardozo Law Review, 20: 687 - 693. “A Strategy for the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau,” (co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt), Cardozo Law Review, 20: 695 - 730. “German Persecution and Dutch Accommodation: The Evolution of the Dutch National Consciousness of the Judeocide,” (co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt), in The World Reacts to the Holocaust, 1945-1990, ed. David Wyman (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 45-77. - 4 - Dwork, June 2015 “Lamed-Vovniks of 20th Century Europe: Participants in Jewish Child Rescue,” in Resistance Against the Third Reich, ed. Michael Geyer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 89-118. “Reclaiming Auschwitz,” (co-authored with Robert Jan van Pelt), in Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory, ed. Geoffrey Hartman (London: Blackwell, 1993), 232-251, 295-297. “Childhood,” in Encyclopaedia of the History of Medicine, eds. W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter, (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 1072-1091. “Recovering the Past: A Beginning,” Dimensions (A Journal of Holocaust Studies), 6, Spring 1992, pp.18-23. “The Milk Option: One Aspect of the Infant and Child Welfare Movement in England, 1898-1918,” Medical History, 31 (1987): 51-69. “Robert Koch,” in Dictionary of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, ed. Roy Porter, (Milan: Ricci, 1984). “Victorian Child Care,” Maternal and Child Health, 8 (May 1983). “Koch and the Colonial Office: 1902-1904, The Second South African Expedition,” Zeitschrift fuer Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften Technik und Medizin, Jan. 1983, pp.67-74. Dictionary of the History of Science, W.F. Bynum, E.J. Browne, and Roy Porter,
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