Ph.D. Alumni

As Holocaust museums and memorials proliferate, Center alumni are poised to assume leadership positions. Indeed they are doing just that as they continue to embrace opportunities for further research and public service. As the only program to provide doctoral education in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies, the Center is proud to serve as a training ground for future curators, education directors, and historians who will advance the field and enhance the education of teachers, students, and the public. Their activities, reported below, attest to the value of the Center’s enterprise of rigorous doctoral education.

Featured Alumni

Upper Left: Gabrielle Hauth ’22 and Thomas Kühne Upper Middle: Tiberiu Galis ‘15 Upper Right: Elizabeth Anthony ’16 and Jeffrey Koerber ’15

Lower Left: Alexis Herr ’14 Lower Middle: Samantha Lakin ’21 with family Bottom Left: Michael Geheran ’16, Thomas Kühne and Joanna Sliwa ’16

Anna Aleksanyan, Ph.D. '23

Kim Allar, Ph.D. '19

Cristina Andriani, Ph.D. '13

Elizabeth Anthony, Ph.D. '16

Maayan Armelin, Ph.D. '23

Sara Elise Brown, Ph.D. '16

Beth Cohen, Ph.D. '03

Sarah Cushman, Ph.D. '10

Asya Darbinyan, Ph.D. '19

Tiberiu Galis, Ph.D. '15

Michael Geheran, Ph.D '16

Adara Goldberg, Ph.D. '12

Simon Goldberg, Ph.D. '24

Sandra Grudić, Ph.D. '25

Gabrielle Hauth, Ph.D. '22

Naama Haviv, MA '06

Alexis Herr, Ph.D. '14

Stefan Cristian Ionescu, Ph.D. '13

Jeffrey Koerber, Ph.D. '15

Robin Krause, MA '12

Umit Kurt, Ph.D. '16

“The Making of the Aintab Elite: Social Support, Local Incentives and Provincial Motives Behind the Armenian Genocide (1890s-1920s)”

Current Position:
Professor of History, University of New Castle, New South Wales, Australia

Publications:
(with Taner Akçam) The Spirit of the Laws: Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (Berghahn Books, 2017)
The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Harvard University Press, 2021)

Samantha Lakin, Ph.D. '21

“Kwibuka: Divergent Memories and Quests for Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda”

Current Position:
Curriculum Analyst, Organizational Learning Unit, Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State

Publications:
“Memory and Victimhood in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Legal, Political, and Social Realities” in Narratives of Mass Atrocity: Victims and Perpetrators in the Aftermath (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

(with Paul Bartrop) Heroines of Vichy France: Rescuing French Jews during the Holocaust (Praeger, 2019)

Beth Lilach, MA '12

Jody Russell Manning ABD

Khachador Mouradian, Ph.D. '16

“Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1917”

Current Position:
Lecturer, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department and Director, Armenian Studies Program, Columbia University

Publication:
Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1916″, Études arméniennes contemporaines, Vol. 7 (2016)
The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915 – 1918 (Michigan State University Press, 2021)

Ilana Offenberger, Ph.D. '10

Mike Phoenix (Mihai Poliec), Ph.D. '18

Alicja Podbielska, Ph.D. '21

Christine Schmidt, Ph.D. '03

Raz Segal, Ph.D. '13

“Disintegration: Social Breakdown and Political Mass Violence in Subcarpathian Rus”

Current Position:
Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Endowed Professor in the study of Modern Genocide and Director, Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University, NJ.

Publications:
Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2016)
Days of Ruin: The Jews of Munkacs During the Holocaust (Yad Vashem Publications, 2013)

Joanna Sliwa, Ph.D.'16

Lotta Stone, Ph.D. '10

Jason Tingler, Ph.D. '19

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