Fortunoff Non-Residential Fellowship
The Fortunoff Video Archive awards non-residential fellowships to scholars and artists who are working with the collection to produce scholarly publications, conferences, and artistic productions rooted in the collection.
Current Fellows
Grzegorz KwiatkowskiArtist-in-Residence 2025-2026
Kwiatkowski has earned international recognition for both his poetry and his activism. His literary works, including the acclaimed collection Crops, tackle profound themes of violence, genocide, and human rights. Translated by Peter Constantine, Crops has been published in the United States, and beyond. Kwiatkowski’s poetry is not merely a reflection on the past, but an urgent call to confront the realities of hatred and violence in the present. He conducts readings and speaks regularly at universities around the world.
Judith LinFortunoff Fellow
Judith Lin is a writer and researcher of the Sephardic Holocaust experience. She completed her PhD as a Rachel Winer Manon Jewish Studies fellow at the University of Virginia. After many years working with face-to-face with survivors, Judith has developed listening strategies that rely on trust, multilingualism, and co-created memory. Judith’s work combines analysis of oral testimonies with archival papers and collected writings in Ladino. Her first monograph, Belonging to Exile: Sephardic Homelands through Poetry, discusses the different national geographies that appealed to Sephardic Holocaust survivors after the war. Her second book-length project, Membranza: Listening to Sephardic Voices touched by the Holocaust, explores relationship between language and visceral memory in testimonies that have been recorded in Ladino.
Lida DodouFortunoff Fellow
Lida Dodou is a historian who specializes on Salonika’s Jews during the 19th and 20th centuries. She has also worked as an educator and editor and she has collaborated with cultural institutions. Her research focuses on eras of transition and the impact on Jewish Salonika. Various fellowships have taken her across Europe, and she has worked and published on a variety of subjects, from early 19th century Salonikan Jewish business networks, to Jewish migration from Salonika to the Habsburg Empire and its successor states and antisemitism as a decision-making factor.