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Miriam Chorley-Schulz

Assistant Professor and Mokin Fellow of Holocaust Studies
German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies Program, School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: 419 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Mo, 1–2pm or by appointment
Research Interests: Jewish/Yiddish Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, German Studies, Fascism Studies, Soviet Studies, Race, Critical Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Psychoanalysis, Memory Studies

Biography

Miriam Chorley-Schulz (neé Schulz) is Assistant Professor and the Mokin Fellow in Holocaust Studies at the University of Oregon and the co-founder of the EU-funded project "We Refugees. Digital Archive on Refugeedom, Past and Present" (https://en.we-refugees-archive.org/). She holds a Ph.D. in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University and was the Ray D. Wolfe Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Jewish Studies and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto.

Miriam has received fellowships from several institutions, including the Association for Jewish Studies, the Center for Jewish History, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, the Harriman Institute, Yad Vashem’s Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, amongst others.

In addition to numerous other publications, she is the author of Der Beginn des Untergangs: Die Zerstörung der jüdischen Gemeinden in Polen und das Vermächtnis des Wilnaer Komitees (Berlin: Metropol, 2016) which was awarded the Hosenfeld/Szpilman Memorial Award. Most recently, Miriam published the volume Socialist Yiddishlands: Language Politics and Transnational Entanglements between 1941 and 1991 (Berlin/Boston: dup/De Gruyter, 2024) that she co-edited with Alexander Walther.

Education

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Columbia University

M.A. Freie Universität Berlin

B.A. Freie Universität Berlin

Teaching

GER 222 "Voices of Dissent: Representation of the Holocaust"

GER 354 "Male Fantasies: Fascism and Gender"

JDST 354 "Global Yiddish Cultures" (History of Jewish Thought)

JDST 354 "Russian Jewry. Histories and Imaginaries" (History of Jewish Thought)

GER 407/507 "Ecofascism"

GSL 410/510 "The Holocaust and Film"

GER 607 "Good Memory? German Memory Cultures after the Holocaust"

GER 625 "Kvetching in Translation: The Case of Yiddish in the US"