Sari J. Siegel
Department of History, University of Southern California
sari.siegel@gmail.com
EDUCATION
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
August 2011 - Present, Doctoral Program in History
Ph.D. expected May 2017
Advisor: Prof. Wolf Gruner
Columbia University School of Continuing Education, New York, NY
Spring 2009 – Spring 2011, Postbaccalaureate Studies Program
Coursework included: World War II in History and Memory, European Catastrophe, Modern
Germany 1900-2000, German, Yiddish
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Bachelor of Arts in History with Distinction in the Major
Diploma May 2006
Senior Essay: The Historiography of the ‘Righteous Gentiles’ of the Holocaust: The Evolution of
American Perceptions of Holocaust Rescuers
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
University of Southern California Graduate Merit Scholarship
2011-2016
Holocaust Educ. Fdn. Fellowship for the Summer Inst. on the Holocaust and Jewish Civ.
Summer 2013
Katz Fund Conference Travel Grant, Department of History, USC
Summer 2013, Fall 2012 and Fall 2011
William Donat Fellow, Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program
Summer 2012
USC 2020 Summer Research Grant
Summer 2012
PUBLICATIONS
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
“Treating Dr. Maximilian Samuel: A Case Study of an Auschwitz Prisoner Doctor”
Forthcoming (Slated for Winter 2014 issue)
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PRESENTATIONS
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust: “New Conversations on the Holocaust” Lecture
2 August 2013
Paper Presented: “Shades of Gray: The Obedience-Resistance Spectrum of Prisoner-Physicians”
(tentative title)
Reassessing Nazi Human Experiments and Coerced Research, 1933-1945
July 2013, Oxford University
Panel Chaired: “Reading Memoirs, Testimonies and Compensation Claims”
USC “Resisting the Path to Genocide” Research Cluster
April 2013
Research Presented: Findings from summer archival work at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State
Museum (Oświęcim, Poland), the Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw, Poland), and Yad
Vashem (Jerusalem, Israel)
Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust
November 2012
Paper Presented: “The Case of Dr. Samuel: Resistance or Collaboration of an Auschwitz
Prisoner-Physician?”
European Summer School Ravensbrück: Gender and Race in Nazi Medicine
28 August 2011 – 2 September 2011
Paper presented: “Dr. Gisella Perl and Out of the Ashes: Making an Auschwitz PrisonerPhysician Acceptable to an Audience”
USHMM Summer Workshop: Coercive Medical Research and Practice During the
Holocaust
August 2010, Convened by Prof. Paul Weindling
Paper presented: “Treating Dr. Maximilian Samuel: A Case Study in Historiographical
Approaches to Controversial Prisoner Doctors in Nazi Concentration Camps”
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Graduate School
Research for Ongoing Projects
Fall 2011 – Present, Supervised by Prof. Wolf Gruner (University of Southern California)
Focus: Maximilian Samuel Case Study and the Obedience-Resistance Spectrum of PrisonerPhysicians
Archives Visited: Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Oświęcim, Poland),
British Library (London, England), Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw, Poland), Wiener Library
(London, England), Yad Vashem (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Prior to Graduate School
Independent Research
Spr. 2007 – Summer 2011, Supervised by Profs. Paula Hyman (Yale University) and Volker
Berghahn (Columbia University)
Focus: Conduct of prisoner-physicians in Nazi concentration camps
Archives Visited: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimony (New Haven, CT), National
Archives (College Park, MD), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC),
Schleswig-Holstein State Archive (Schleswig, Germany), USC Shoah Foundation Institute
Visual History Archive (Los Angeles, CA), Yad Vashem (Jerusalem, Israel)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Southern California
Spring 2013, The Holocaust, Prof. Wolf Gruner
Fall 2012 and Fall 2013, Modern Europe, Prof. Paul Lerner
29 November 2012, Guest Lecture on the Holocaust
Guest Lecturer, Department of History, University of California – Los Angeles
20 February 2013, Recent Debates in the Historiography of the Holocaust, Prof. Saul Friedländer
Topic: Historiography of the “Gray Zone”
LANGUAGES
French: Proficient – all skills
German: Proficient – reading; Intermediate – speaking, writing, and aural comprehension
Yiddish: Proficient – reading; Elementary – speaking, writing, and aural comprehension
Posted: November 8, 2013
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