University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Fellowships

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University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Fellowships 

There are four month-long fellowships available during the 2017-2018 academic year: the Genocide Prevention Research Fellowship; Katz Fellowship in Genocide Studies; Greenberg Fellowship; and Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship. 

The Genocide Prevention Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates is due November 23, 2016. This fellowship will be awarded to an advanced-standing Ph.D. candidate from any discipline who will spend one month of residence at the Center in the Spring of 2017 to advance research on genocide prevention through the use of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources.

The Katz; Greenberg; and Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson fellowships are due December 15, 2016 and will be awarded to outstanding advanced-standing Ph.D. candidates from any discipline for dissertation research with innovative approaches focusing on testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources. 

The USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive contains over 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides, including the Rwandan, Armenian, Guatemalan genocides and the Nanjing Massacre in China. These interviews were conducted in 62 languages and in 41 countries and cover the entire life history of the interviewees before, during, and after the genocide.

• Please visit http://sfi.usc.edu/cagr/fellowships to see the list of fellowships and read the full call for applications.
• For more information about the center and the Visual History Archive, please visit: http://sfi.usc.edu/cagr