I am a historian of the Holocaust, gender and sexuality, and emotions with broader interests in modern European history and Jewish studies. I completed my doctoral training at the University of Oxford in 2024, where I also received a Master of Studies in Jewish Studies in 2020. I have previously held several notable fellowships, including a Fulbright Fellowship 2018-2019, the Alexander Grass Memorial Fellowship at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2022-2023, and a USC Shoah Foundation Non-Residential Fellowship 2023-2024. My work also received the Taube Prize in Student Writing in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from the Centre of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford in 2023. My most recent article on exploitative sexual relationships between young boys, who often went by the title of Pipel, and older male prisoners was published open access in The Journal of Holocaust Research and can be found here.

I am currently working on adapting my DPhil thesis into my first monograph, which willl be the most comprehensive investigation 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.

I also have several articles and book chapters in progress, including a case study on queering the Holocaust, an integrative look at sexualized violence experienced by both men and women in the camps, and the first article on trans femininity in the concentration camps. 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.

Pronouns: they/he

Publications:

Monograph in Preparation:

‘So then…he raped me’: Male Experiences of Sexual(ized) Violence in the Nazi Camp System (working title)

Articles:

"Cross-dressing, Masculinity, and Traces of the Transfeminine in Camp Survivor Testimony." Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Forthcoming Special Issue edited by Björn Krondorfer and Christin Zühlke.

“Absent or Silent?: Men’s Gendered Remembering of Sexualized Violence in the Nazi Concentration Camps.” La Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah. Forthcoming Special Issue edited by Deborah Barton, Andrea Peto, Fabien Théofilakis, and Zoe Waxman.

“Sexual Violence, Queer Practices, and Heterosexual Identity in the Concentration Camps: A Survivor Case Study.” Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History. Forthcoming Special Issue edited by Helen Finch and Rosie Ramsden.

‘“You are going to be my Bettman”: Exploitative sexual relationships and the lives of the Pipel in Nazi concentration camps.’ The Journal of Holocaust Research, 38 Special Issue, no. 3-4 (2024): 253-272. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2024.2363682

Books Chapters:

“The Vulnerabilities of Youth: Sexual violence against male children and adolescents in the concentration camps.” In Children as victims of sexual and sexualized violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger, Helga Embacher, and Dieter Steinert. Salzburg: Edition Tandem, forthcoming 2025/26.

Translations:

Hajkova, Anna. People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust. Partial German to English translations by William Ross Jones. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2025.

Book Reviews:

"The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism by Jennifer V. Evans, Durham: Duke University Press, 2023" Gender & History 26, no. 2: 312.