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Alumni spotlight: Graduate Alexandra van Doren
HGMS is delighted to announce that Comparative Literature and HGMS graduate student Alexandra van Doren defended her dissertation on April 30 and was hooded as an Illini Ph.D. on 11 May 2019. Her dissertation, which she will deposit in August, ‘“Where foot knocks against/the unburied bones of kin’: Topographies of Memory and Amnesia in Poland and Spain,” compares the memory cultures of Spain and Poland around the Holocaust, Spanish Civil War, and other traumatic events through the lens of repressed and silenced voices. Alex has been an exceptional student and community leader. She was awarded...
Making of the Jewish Nation
"Making of the Jewish Nation" traces the development of different forms of Jewish nationalism (diaspora nationalism, Zionism, territorialism, etc.) and the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
American Jewish History: The Case of Central Illinois
The course offers an opportunity to learn the nuances of archival work using the collections available locally—the University of Illinois Library!
The Holocaust in Context
Examines cultural representations of the Holocaust in literature, film, and critical essays.