Call for Proposals
2025 International Research Workshops
Application deadline: April 1, 2024
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invites proposals from individuals and institutions to co-organize international research workshops in conjunction with the Mandel Center in 2025. Proposals are due Monday, April 1, 2024.
The Mandel Center’s Division of International Academic Programs promotes the vitality of research in the field of Holocaust studies around the world through the Moskowitz/Rafalowicz International Research Workshop and the Jacob and Yetta Gelman International Research Workshop. Our workshops seed research networks and produce new scholarship. We welcome proposals for workshop themes from scholars at universities and research institutions in all relevant disciplines, including (but not limited to) history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, Romani studies, philosophy, religion, anthropology, sociology, genocide studies, and law.
Successful applicants will collaborate with Mandel Center staff scholars to design and co-lead a workshop at the Museum. Applicants may apply as individual co-organizers or on behalf of an institutional co-organizer. Participants for the workshop will be selected through an open Call for Applications drafted by the co-organizers in cooperation with the Mandel Center’s International Academic Programs staff.
About the Workshops
The workshops convene groups of 10 to 12 scholars, including the co-organizers, for up to two weeks of presentations by participants on their particular research projects; workshop-based research using the Museum’s collections; and in-depth discussions of overarching research issues, priorities, findings, and potential future collaborative endeavors.
How to Apply
Applications to the International Research Workshop Program must be submitted online at ushmm.org/research-workshops.
The application requires you to upload a description of the proposed workshop not to exceed two single-spaced pages detailing the research project’s focus, significance, scope, methods, objectives, and expected outcomes, as well as proposed dates for the workshop.
Applications also require CVs for no more than two individual co-organizers, and, if applicable, a description of the mission, research agenda, and programmatic activities of the proposed co-organizing institution not to exceed one single-spaced page. Applicants should hold a PhD or have advanced to candidacy in a doctoral degree program.
If selected, the workshop co-organizer(s) will work with Mandel Center staff scholars over the summer and fall of 2024 to design the Call for Applications for workshop participants and workshop agenda. Participant applications in this stage of the process will be due in the fall of 2024 for workshops to be held in 2025.
Museum Resources
The Museum's David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation houses an unparalleled repository of Holocaust evidence that documents the fate of victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others. The Museum’s comprehensive collection contains millions of documents, artifacts, photos, films, books, and testimonies. The Museum’s Database of Holocaust Survivor and Victim Names contains records on people persecuted during World War II under the Nazi regime. In addition, the Museum possesses the holdings of the International Tracing Service (ITS), which contains more than 200 million digitized pages with information on the fates of 17.5 million people who were subject to incarceration, forced labor, and displacement as a result of World War II. Many of these records have not been examined by scholars, offering unprecedented opportunities to advance the field of Holocaust and genocide studies.
Participants will have access to both the Museum’s downtown campus and the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center.
Contact Us
Contact us at researchworkshops@ushmm.org if you have questions about our upcoming or past programs.
The International Research Workshop Program has been made possible through the generosity of the Moskowitz/Rafalowicz Endowment and the Yetta and Jacob Gelman Endowment at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.