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Status: PhD Candidate

Adviser: Karen Auerbach

Graduate Email: curryal@live.unc.edu

Curriculum Vitae Personal Website

Education

B.A. History and Anthropology, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2016
Graduate Certificate, Digital Public Humanities, George Mason University, 2018
M.A. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Gratz College, 2018
M.A. Thesis: “Use, Function, and Destruction: A History of Poland’s Jewish Cemeteries During and After World War II”

Research Interests

My research interests include the social and cultural history of East European Jewry, specifically twentieth century Polish Jewish history, and the history of the Holocaust. I am interested in the impact of space and place in Jewish history, identity formation and contestation, as well as collective memory and memorialization. My dissertation examines the ritual, spatial, and functional uses of Jewish cemeteries in Poland between 1918 and 1945.

Notable Awards and Fellowships

  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship – Association for Jewish Studies, 2024-2025
  • The Christopher Browning Student Excellence Award in Jewish Studies – Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, 2024
  • Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies – Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, 2022-2024
  • Research Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies - The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2023
  • Dissertation Research Grant – The Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies, 2022