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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
miriams@uoregon.edu
Office: MAC B010A
Office Hours: by appointment
Research Interests: Jewish/Yiddish Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Fascism Studies, Race, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis

Biography

Miriam Chorley-Schulz specializes in Yiddish diasporic histories, cultures, and thought; Jewish leftwing traditions; histories and theories of racism, antisemitism, and fascism; Holocaust and genocide studies; critical theory and cultural studies. 

She is the author of numerous publications. Her first monograph Der Beginn des Untergangs: Die Zerstörung der jüdischen Gemeinden in Polen und das Vermächtnis des Wilnaer Komitees (Berlin: Metropol, 2016) was awarded the Hosenfeld/Szpilman Memorial Award as well as the Scientific Award of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Germany (special mention). 

Chorley-Schulz is the co-founder of the EU-funded project We Refugees. Digital Archive on Refugeedom, Past and Present.

Education

Post-Doc, University of Toronto

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

M.A., B.A. Freie Universität Berlin