2024-2025 Caroline Sturdy Colls
“The Evolution of Mass Murder: Forensic Archeological Perspectives on Mass Violence at Treblinka Labor and Extermination Camps” (recording available here)
Why Treblinka, part of ‘the largest single murder campaign within the Holocaust,’ remains unknown to Americans, by Erin McGlothlin
2023-2024 Ari Joskowicz
“Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust”
2022-2023 Jeffrey Veidlinger
“The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust”
2021-2022 Natalia Aleksiun
“Jewish Physicians and Their Patients: Rescue Strategies in Nazi-Occupied Poland”
2020-2021 Virtual Roundtable with Avril Alba, Zahava D. Doering, and David Cunningham
“Legacies of Violence and Genocide: Can Memorials and Museums Help Us Bild a Better Future?”
On Legacies of Violence, Genocide, and Implicated Subjects: Arts and Museums as Influence and Response, by Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim
2019-2020 Jason De León
“The Land of Open Graves: Understanding the Current Politics of Migrant Life and Death along the US/Mexico Border”
On Borders and Unnatural “Natural” Deaths, by Tabea Linhard
2018-2019 Sue Vice
“The Holocaust in Literature and Film: Revisiting Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah”
Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ and Its Archive of Outtakes, by Erin McGlothlin
2017-2018 Crystal Feimster
“The Greatest Outrage of the Century: White Violence and Black Protest in in America”
‘A Time to Lift One’s Voice’: The East St. Louis Riot in a Migration Perspective, by Douglas Flowe
2016-2017 Doris Bergen
“Holocaust or Genocide: Uniqueness and Universality”
The Holocaust and the ‘Whew’ Effect, by Erin McGlothlin
2015-2016 Jay Winter
“The Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide”
Violence and Memory, with Anika Walke and Jay Winter
2014-2015 David Shneer
“Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War and the Holocaust”
2013-2014 Sarah Wagner
“Srebrenica’s Legacies of Loss and Remembrance”
2012-2013 Aron Rodrigue
“Some Reflections on Sephardic Jewries and the Holocaust”
2011-2012 David Rosen
“The Moral Complexity of the Child Soldier ‘Problem’”
2010-2011 Marianne Hirsch
“Rites of Return: The Afterlife of the Holocaust in Jewish Memory”
2009-2010 Benedict Kiernan
“Blood and Soil: Genocide in World History”
2008-2009 Daniel Mendelsohn
“Finding ‘The Lost’: A Journey into the History, Family, and Judaism”
2006-2007 David Rieff
2005-2006 Christopher Browning
“Holocaust Denial in the Courtroom: The Historian as Expert Witness”
2004-2005 Peter Balakian
“The Armenian Genocide and America’s First International Human Rights Movement”
2003-2004 Adam Hochschild
“The Holocaust and the Congo: Then and Today”
2002-2003 Jan Gross
“Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland”
2001-2002 James E. Young
“A Holocaust Memorial for Berlin?”
2000-2001 Philip Gourevitch
“The Rwandan Genocide”
1999-2000 Saul Friedländer
“The SHOAH: Memory, History and the Historian”
1998-1999 Louise Arbour
“Prosecutions before the International Criminal Court”
1997-1998 Michael Berenbaum
“The Holocaust and its Remembrance”
1996-1997 M. Cherif Bassiouni
“Stopping Impunity for International Crimes”
1995-1996 Steven Katz
“Holocaust and Mass Death: Variations and Differences”
1994-1995 Ernst Stein
“The Rise of Neo-Nazism in Germany”
1993-1994 Ian Hancock
“Gypsies, Germany and the Holocaust”
1992-1993 Elie Wiesel
“When the Unthinkable Happens”
1991-1992 William Shawcross
“Holocaust and Cambodia”
1990-1991 Robert Jay Lifton
“Beyond Genocide – Learning from the Nazi Doctors”
1989-1990 Arno Mayer
“Terror and Violence under Hitler and Stalin: Issues in Studying the Holocaust”