Our Ph.D. students conduct innovative research in archives around the world, with survivors of genocides, and at sites of mass violence. They secure prestigious fellowships, like those offered by the United States Holocaust Memorial, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which is supported by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future and by the German Federal Ministry of Finance, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, and travel the globe to present their research at conferences and academic institutions. They publish in peer-reviewed journals and contribute chapters to edited volumes.
The Strassler Center depends upon generous financial support to underwrite the cost of doctoral fellowships and research awards. Since 2002, Clark University has received annual funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) to fund Holocaust research and documentation. This support has been crucial to establishing the Strassler Center as a leading institution for doctoral training in Holocaust History. Thanks to Claims Conference funding, our students have presented their research at conferences around the globe, they have published their doctoral research with important academic presses, and they have taken leadership positions at colleges, universities, museums, archives, and educational institutions.
In addition, our students benefit from stipends and research awards made possible by the following endowed funds:
- Charlotte Calfaian Doctoral Research Award in Armenian Genocide Studies
- Ferenc and Ilona (Schulhoff) Czigler Family Endowed Fund for Graduate Students in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Howard Fromson Endowment Fund for Graduate Student Support
- Jeffrey and Debra Geller Research Fund
- Hedwig Levistein Goldmann and Jakob Goldmann Research Award
- Agnes Manoogian Hausrath Doctoral Fellowship
- Samuel and Anna Jacobs Endowed Doctoral Research Award
- Hannah and Roman Kent Research Award in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Hilda and Al Kirsch Endowed Doctoral Research Award
- Louis and Ann Kulin Endowment (Hannah and Howard Kulin Fellowship)
- MJR Memorial Research Award
- R. Mihran and Ovsanna Y. Mooradian Research Award
- Leslie Shahun Parish and Glenn Parish Endowed Fund for Doctoral Study in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Marlene and David Persky Endowed Research Fund
- Rosalie and Sidney Rose Fund for Doctoral Study in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Shirley and Ralph Rose Fund for Doctoral Study in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Mildred Suesser Endowment Fund for Doctoral Student Research in Holocaust Studies
- Albert M. Tapper Fund for Doctoral Study in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Asbed B. Zakarian & Margaret M. Zakarian Fund for Graduate Student Support in Armenian Genocide Studies
