Washington University in St. Louis

Post-Doc, International and Area Studies

About

I graduated, with a joint doctoral degree, from the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz and the Division of Social Sciences at University of Oldenburg (Germany). I currently work on a book manuscript entitled “Jewish Youth in Ghettos and Forests: Oral Histories of the Nazi Genocide in Byelorussia.” The book traces the experience of the first generation of Soviet Jews, before, during and after the Holocaust, in eastern Byelorussia.
In 2010, I was a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (US Holocaust Memorial Museum). I have published several articles on questions of oral history and memory in the post-Soviet context and resistance against the Nazi-genocide in Byelorussia. My first book, Jüdische Partisaninnen: Der verschwiegene Widerstand in der Sowjetunion (Berlin 2007), provides eight portraits of Jewish women who survived the Nazi genocide in partisan units or in hiding.
At Washington University, I teach classes on migration and migration politics in past and present. I am also coordinating the project network, "Migration, Identity, State: Flows and Crises in a Global Era." My future research plans include an in-depth analysis of the confluence of memory discourses and perceptions of migration in the German and Soviet/Russian contexts.

Courses taught at Washington University:
- Migration and the Nazi Genocide
- Migrations in Past and Present: Introduction to Migration Studies
- Migration and Modernity: Human Mobility, Identity, and State Formation in Russia and the (post-) Soviet Context

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