THE J. B. AND MAURICE C. SHAPIRO ANNUAL LECTURE (SPRING)
The J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence is invited to spend an academic year at the Museum to pursue research and writing on a project relating to the Holocaust. The Shapiro Senior Scholar lectures at universities throughout the United States and serves as a resource for the Museum, educators, students, and the general public. This program, which is organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, is made possible by an endowment from the J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Charitable Trust.
Donald Bloxham University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
LECTURE “The Legacies of Nuremberg in History, Politics, and Law” April 10, 2008
David G. Roskies Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture and Professor of Jewish Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York.
LECTURE “1943: The Jewish World at Ground Zero” March 27, 2007
Zvi Gitelman Professor of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
LECTURE “Why They Killed Their Neighbors: The Myth of “Judeo-Bolshevism” and Holocaust-Era Pogroms in Eastern Europe” March 16, 2006
Vicki Caron Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University.
Peter Longerich Professor of Modern German History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Director of Royal Holloway's Research Centre for the Holocaust and Twentieth Century History.
LECTURE “Life of a Perpetrator-Heinrich Himmler: Comments of A Biographer” April 28, 2004
Steven J. Zipperstein Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History and Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University.
