Above all, Debórah Dwork is a teacher and mentor. She envisioned and actualized the first doctoral program anywhere in the world specifically in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies. The scholars she has trained hold positions at leading institutions and stand in the vanguard of their field.
Under contract with Indiana University Press as Women in Auschwitz.
Co-editor, The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz Birkenau (2025) Co-editor, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History Co-editor, Cambridge Elements in Genocide Studies.
Director, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University; Senior Lecturer in History, Northwestern University
Emily Dabney (ABD)
"Forced Labor in the Maghreb, 1940–1943."
Senior Administrative Assistant, AVP of Business and Information Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Daan de Leeuw, Ph.D.
"The Geography of Slave Labor: Dutch Jews and the Third Reich, 1942–1945." Graduated 2025.
Awarded the Stanislav Zámiečnik Prize by the International Dachau Committee.
Published as: Jewish Resistance to Romanianization, 1940–1944 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
Leon and Sophie Weinstein Associate Professor in Holocaust History; Associate Director, Rodgers Center of Holocaust Education, Chapman University
Jeffrey Koerber, Ph.D.
"Born in the Borderlands." Graduated, 2015.
Published as: Borderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler (Syracuse University Press, 2020). Finalist, Wiener Holocaust Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize.
Associate Professor of Holocaust History, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Alexandra Kramen (ABD)
"Justice Pursued: Jewish Survivors' Struggle for Holocaust Justice in DP Camp Föhrenwald, 1945–1957."
Co-editor, The Surviving Remnant (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024).
Supported by 2025–2027 Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship.
Natalya Lazar (ABD)
"Czernowitz Jews and the Holocaust."
Program Officer, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM
Beth Lilach (ABD)
"Aftermath of Liberation: Jewish Life in Displaced Persons Camps, Germany 1945–1957."
Executive Director, Konar Center for Jewish Studies and Tolerance, Nazareth University, Rochester, NY
Abigail Miller (ABD)
"The Transmission of Holocaust Memory in Argentina: From the Refugee Survivors to the Generation of the Disappeared."
Program and Engagement Manager, Philanthropy West Virginia
"Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915–1917." Graduated, 2016.
Published as: The Resistance Network (Michigan State University Press, 2021). Honorable Mention, 2021 Syrian Studies Association; 2022 Aronian Book Prize.
Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress; Lecturer, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
Numerous exhibition catalogues and edited volumes, including Letters and the Holocaust (Bloomsbury, 2025) Older Jews and the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press, 2026)
Beyond Camps and Forced Labour (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Co-Director, The Wiener Holocaust Library, London
Raz Segal, Ph.D.
"Disintegration: Social Breakdown and Political Mass Violence in Subcarpathian Rus." Graduated, 2013.
Published as: Genocide in the Carpathians (Stanford University Press, 2016).
Associate Professor and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide; Director, M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
