Teaching Fellow in Modern History and Holocaust History

I am a historian of the Holocaust, gender and sexuality, and emotions with broader interests in modern European history and Jewish studies. My forthcoming first monograph is an adaptation of my DPhil thesis, completed at the University of Oxford. It is an investigation of the presence and prevalence of sexual and sexualized violence against men and boys in the Nazi camp system. Largely exposing this topic for the first time, the book explores this violence through the voices of the victims, primarily through oral testimony. It builds a novel methodology relying on emotions and gendered-understandings of self-expression (and the limits of such self-expression) to uncover sexual(ized) violence's lived realities in between the lines and within the silences present in testimony. It is also at all times an interrogation of memory and it's effects on recounting the past.I am also currently developing articles on queering the history of the Holocaust, such as a case study on a survivor whose overlapping experiences of sexual violence, consensual (homosexual-)sex, and heterosexuality offer a fascinating example of coexisting realities defy usual expectations of experience. My future projects will include a continued examination of sexual(ized) violence against men and boys outside of the concentration camps, as well as a history of consent.