Biographies of Contributors
Boaz Cohen completed his Ph.D. in Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University with a dissertation entitled "Holocaust Research in Israel, 1945–1980: Characteristics, Trends, Developments." He teaches Jewish studies at Sha'anan College, Haifa, and Holocaust studies at Western Galilee College, Acre. He specializes in early Holocaust historiography, with an emphasis on the historical, social, and cultural context of children's early-postwar Holocaust testimonies. His recent publications include "'And I was only a child': Children's Testimonies, Bergen-Belsen 1945," Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 12, nos. 1–2 (2006).
Eric Ehrenreich received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. He has received numerous honors, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a German Historical Institute Fellowship, and, in 2004–2005, a Douglas and Carol Cohen Postdoctoral Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and George Mason University. His book The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution is forthcoming with Indiana University Press in 2007. Dr. Ehrenreich currently practices law in Washington, D.C.
Kiril Feferman is currently completing his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His dissertation addresses the Holocaust in the Crimea and the North Caucasus. He has published on Soviet attitudes toward the Holocaust, including the stance of various nationalities in the southern part of the country. His other interests include partisan and anti-partisan warfare during World War II, and the Islamic factor in the Soviet Union during the war. Dr. Feferman was a 2004–2005 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Memorial Museum. He is currently an applied research scholar at Yad Vashem.
Shannon L. Fogg is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Her current research focuses on daily life in unoccupied France during the Second World War, and particularly the effects of material shortages on locals' attitudes towards "outsiders" (refugees from Alsace, French and foreign Jews, and Roma). Dr. Fogg has achieved many awards, including a 2000–2001 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Alexander V. Prusin is Associate Professor of History at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico. His publications include "'Fascist Criminals to the Gallows!': The Holocaust and Soviet War Crimes Trials, December 1945–February 1946," Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17, no. 1 (2003); and Nationalizing a Borderland: War, Ethnicity, and Anti-Jewish Violence in East Galicia, 1914–1920 (2005). Dr. Prusin was a 2001–2002 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Memorial Museum.
