Fellowships

Marianne HirschWilliam Rosenberg Senior Scholar

Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She writes about the transmission of memories of violence across generations, combining feminist theory with memory studies in global perspective. She is a former President of the Modern Language Association of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012) and the co-edited volume Women Mobilizing Memory (2019).  She is working on a book about reparative memory.

Together with Leo Spitzer, Hirsch has also co-authored two books: Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010) and School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference (2020).

Leo SpitzerWilliam Rosenberg Senior Scholar

Leo Spitzer is Vernon Professor of History Emeritus and Research Professor at Dartmouth College. He writes about responses to imperialism, Jewish refugee memory, and traumatic witnessing and its transmission. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships including the Guggenheim and American Council of Learned Societies. His books include Lives in Between: Assimilation, Marginality, Exclusion in the Era of Emancipation (1989) and Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism (1998). He is also the editor of Arthur Kessler: A Doctor’s Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust (2024) and is currently writing about entjudung in Rechnitz in 1938: ethnic cleansing in a small Austrian town where his father was born and parental family lived.

Together with Marianne Hirsch, Spitzer has co-authored two books: Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010) and School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference (2020).

Annette WieviorkaWilliam Rosenberg Senior Scholar

Annette Wieviorka is a historian, honorary research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), vice president of the Higher Council of Archives and of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah. She chaired the association Témoignages pour mémoire, the French affiliate of the Fortunoff Video Archives. She was a member of the Study Mission on the Spoliation of the property of the Jews of France, known as the Mattéoli Mission. The author of numerous works, including Déportation et génocide. Entre la mémoire et l’oubli (1992, reprinted 2025); L’Ere du témoin (1998, translated into American by Jared Stark under the title The Era of the Witness); Auschwitz expliqué à ma fille (1999, translated into twenty languages including English under the title Auschwitz Explained to my Child). Her latest work Itinérances (2025) is a collection of articles and a reflection on nearly half a century of research.