Our inaugural Fellow was Dr. Wendy Lower, the John K. Roth Chair at Claremont McKenna College. Lower is a two-time finalist for the National Book Award -- the first time for her book Hitler's Fury: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (2013) and the second for The Ravine: A Family, A Photograph, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed (2021). The Ravine, which received the National Jewish Book Award, provided the basis for her public lecture at USC.
2022 – Dr. Wendy Lower
John K. Roth Chair at Claremont McKenna College
A two-time finalist for the National Book Award, Dr. Lower is the author of Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (2013) and The Ravine: A Family, A Photograph, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed (2021). Her lecture at USC was based on The Ravine, which received the National Jewish Book Award.
2023 – Dr. Clive Webb
Professor of American History, University of Sussex (UK)
Dr. Webb’s research focuses on Jewish–African-American relations and civil rights.
His publications include Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights (2001), Race in the American South (2007, co-authored), and Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era (2010).
2024 – Dr. Anna Ullrich
Director of International Academic Programs, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust
Studies, USHMM
A specialist in German-Jewish history, Dr. Ullrich delivered a lecture titled "Unprecedented Times – German Jews in Nazi Germany," exploring how German Jews responded to exclusion and antisemitism before and during
the rise of Nazism.