PhD Program
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Conflict, Violence and Genocide
- Europe
- Russia
Major and Minor Fields
Major
- Modern Russian History
Minor 1
Modern Jewish History
Minor 2
20th Century Europe
Working Dissertation
Title
The Holocaust in a City Under Siege: Occupation, Mass Violence, Genocide in the Southern Russian City of Rostov-on-Don, 1941-1943
Supervisors
Lynne Viola
Doris Bergen
Anna Shternshis
Description
My dissertation examines life under occupation for residents of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don during the multiple German occupations that took place between 1941 and 1943. I focus in particular on the history of the destruction of the Jewish community of Rostov, and situate it within the wider history of violence against civilians within the occupied city, including killings of Soviet Prisoners of War (POWs) and the mentally ill. I am interested in the connections between the war on the Eastern Front and the Holocaust, and the dynamic interactions between mass violence and the process of military occupying in an urban centre.
Biography
Awards
- 2017 Joseph Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- 2016 Ed and Fran Sonshine Graduate Award in Holocaust Studies Centre for Jewish Studies, U of T
- 2015 Ed and Fran Sonshine Graduate Award in Holocaust Studies Centre for Jewish Studies, U of T
- 2015 DAAD Language Fellowship
- 2015 Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies
- 2014 Naim Mahlab Graduate Award in Jewish History Centre for Jewish Studies, U of T
- 2014 OGS
- 2013 Schiff Graduate Student Grant Centre for Jewish Studies, U of T
- 2013 Holocaust Education Foundation (HEF) Fellowship Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization
- 2013 Avie Bennet Award University of Toronto
- 2012 Tanenbaum Scholarship in Jewish Studies Centre for Jewish Studies, U of T
Education
Honours BA, University of Toronto
MPhil, University of Oxford