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The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies offers students the opportunity to do an interdisciplinary undergraduate concentration, including a summer internship, and a Ph.D. program.
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Graduate Studies Program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Clark University is the only college in all of the Americas and Europe to
provide a broad, interdisciplinary education in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The establishment of this Ph.D. program has been acclaimed by experts in the
field as the most decisive step to date in furthering Holocaust and genocide
scholarship.
The Ph.D. program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies offers students a range of
courses covering a spectrum of topics pertaining to the history of the Holocaust
and other genocides. The Ph.D. program requires mastery of four areas: modern
European history, the history of the Holocaust, an area of individual expertise,
and comparative genocide. Graduate course work includes research
seminars and individual directed reading for research purposes. Examples of
seminar courses offered include “Life under Occupation” (Prof. Dwork), “Modern
Jewish History and Thought” (Prof. Fox), “Gender, War and Genocide in 20th
Century Europe” (Prof. Kuehne), “The Western Powers and the Armenian Genocide”
(Prof. Payaslian), and “Social and Cultural Psychology of Genocides” (Prof.
Valsiner).
The goal of the Ph.D. program is to train students in the historiographies of the
Holocaust and genocides, and to teach them to do independent research. Graduate
training differs from undergraduate education in that in graduate school the
student is expected to achieve a deeper understanding of his or her area of
specialization, to become closely familiar with the relevant methodologies and
historiography, and to develop the skills necessary for independent research.
The ability to conduct independent research and to generate new knowledge is the
hallmark of scholarship. The Ph.D. program aims at preparing not only future
Holocaust and genocide scholars but also future leaders and decision makers in
government bureaucracies, corporations, and NGOs.
At the graduate level, the student is expected, through disciplined and rigorous
application, to fulfill the program requirements on schedule and to prepare a
“doable” and manageable Ph.D. dissertation prospectus.
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Academic Catalog & Requirements
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Current graduate students.
Photograph courtesy of Mikal Brotnov. |
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