Visiting Scholars and Artists
Our Sondra and Howard Bender Visiting Scholar series, International Holocaust Remembrance Day programs, Embodied Judaism symposia, and Israel/Palestine Studies events make CU Boulder a “go-to” location for visiting scholars and artists to share their work with faculty, students, and members of the public. All of our public programming is supported by the David Shneer Fund for Community Programming, Public Scholarship, and the Arts, honoring the memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Professor David Shneer z”l.
2023 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Speakers
Alan E. Steinweis is Professor of History and Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Vermont, where he has taught since 2009. In addition to numerous articles and nine coedited volumes, he is the author of four books on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, including the soon-to-be-published The People’s Dictatorship: A History of Nazi Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He is presently conducting research for a new book focusing on the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler in November 1939 by the German cabinetmaker Georg Elser. Steinweis has held fellowships at the Free University of Berlin and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and has been a guest professor at the Universities of Beersheba, Hannover, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Munich, and Augsburg.
Susanna Schrafstetter is Professor of History at the University of Vermont. Her research focuses on the history of the Holocaust in Germany and Italy, as well as on the politics of memory in postwar Europe. Her most recent publications include Flight and Concealment: Surviving the Holocaust Underground in Munich and Beyond (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022); After Nazism: Relaunching Careers in Postwar Germany and Austria, coedited with Jürgen Zarusky and Thomas Schlemmer (German Yearbook of Contemporary History, vol. 5) (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021); and The Germans and the Holocaust: Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews, coedited with Alan E. Steinweis (New York: Berghahn, 2016).