SARI J. SIEGEL
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Southern California
EDUCATION
University of Southern California
Doctoral Program in History, Fall 2011–present
Dissertation: “Between Coercion and Resistance: Jewish Prisoner-Physicians in Nazi Camps, 1940–1945”
Advisor: Prof. Wolf Gruner
M.A. awardedMay 2015
Ph.D. expected May 2018
Columbia University School of Continuing Education
Postbaccalaureate Studies Program,Spring 2009–Spring 2011
Coursework included: World War II in History and Memory, European Catastrophe, Modern Germany 1900-2000, German, Yiddish
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Fall 2006–Spring 2007
Yale University
B.A. with Distinction, History, 2006
Senior Essay: “The Historiography of the ‘Righteous Gentiles’ of the Holocaust: The Evolution of American Perceptions of Holocaust Rescuers,” advised by Prof. Paula Hyman
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“The Past and Promise of Jewish Prisoner-Physicians’ Accounts: A Case Study of Auschwitz-Birkenau’s Multiple Functions”
S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation3 (2016): 86–102
“Treating an Auschwitz Prisoner-Physician: The Case of Dr. Maximilian Samuel”
Holocaust and Genocide Studies28 (2014): 450–481
Articles in Progress
“Shades of Gray on the Screen: Out of the Ashes and Auschwitz Prisoner-Functionary Biopics”
Under review by Cinema Journal
“The Coercion-Resistance Spectrum: An Analytical Model to Historicize the ‘Gray Zone’” (tentative title)
To be submitted to journal to be determined, Spring 2018
“Prisoner-Physicians Under ‘Great Moral Distress’: An Educational Model”
To be submitted to Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, Spring 2018
SELECTED AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
Intramural
University of Southern California Graduate Advanced Year Fellowship, Academic Year 2017–2018
University of Southern California Graduate Merit Scholarship, Fall 2011–Summer 2016
Linnie and Michael Katz Graduate Fellowship Research Grant, Department of History, University of Southern California, Fall 2015 and Academic Year 2014–2015
Ralph and Jean Hovel Summer Travel Award, Dornsife College, University of Southern California, Summer 2015
Roberta Persinger Foulke Endowment Summer Research Grant, Department of History, University of Southern California, Summer 2014
USC Dornsife 2020 Research Cluster Summer Research Grant, Summer 2012
External
Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, August 2016–July 2017
Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance Fellowship, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, December 2015–July 2016
Holocaust Educational Foundation Sharon Abramson Research Grant, Fall 2015
Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, Academic Year 2014–2015
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute Junior Fellowship, March–August 2015
Institut für Zeitgeschichte–United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Exchange of Scholars Award, September–December 2014
German Historical Institute Fellowship for the GHI Summer Archival Seminar, Summer 2014
Holocaust Educational FoundationFellowship for the Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Summer 2013
William Donat Fellow, Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program, Summer 2012
PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS
Invited Presentations
To Be Determined, Third International Scholars Workshop on Medicine in the Holocaust and Beyond, Berlin, Germany, May 2019
“Jewish Prisoner-Physicians in Nazi Camps: A New Challenge to the ‘Vernichtung durch Arbeit’ Theory,” Association of Holocaust Organizations Annual Winter Seminar, Washington, DC, January 11, 2016
“Examining Jewish Prisoner-Physicians: Insights into the Holocaust,” Speakers Series of the Network for the Study of Nazism and the Holocaust, Odense, Denmark, October 28, 2015
“Prisoner-Physicians Under ‘Great Moral Distress’: An Educational Model,” First International Scholars Workshop for Medicine after the Holocaust, Houston, TX, March 3, 2015
“Holocaust Experiments’ Effects on Modern Medicine,”ZYGO Inaugural Roundtable of the University of Southern California Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, Los Angeles, CA, February 28, 2014
“Shades of Gray: The Obedience-Resistance Spectrum of Prisoner-Physicians,” Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust’s “New Conversations on the Holocaust” Lecture Series, Los Angeles, CA, August 2, 2013
“Treating Dr. Maximilian Samuel: A Case Study in Historiographical Approaches to Controversial Prisoner Doctors in Nazi Concentration Camps,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Summer Workshop on Coercive Medical Research and Practice During the Holocaust, Washington, DC, August 13, 2010
Papers Delivered
“More Than a Death Camp: Prisoner-Physicians at the Intersection of Auschwitz-Birkenau’s Different Roles,” University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Lecture Program, Los Angeles, CA, November 7, 2016
“Historicizing the ‘Gray Zone’: Jewish Prisoner-Physicians and the Coercion-Resistance Spectrum,” Holocaust Educational Foundation’s Lessons and Legacies Biannual International Conference, Claremont, CA, November 4, 2016
“Depictions in Shades of Gray: (Self-)Perceptions of Jewish Prisoner-Physicians in Nazi Camps,” Annual Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Extermination Sites, Aix-en-Provence, France, May 28, 2016
“Jewish Prisoner-Physicians and the Multiple Functions of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Labor Camps in the ‘Greater German Reich,’” German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine Annual Conference, Warsaw, Poland, September 10, 2015
“Changing Circumstances, Shifting Approaches: Jewish Prisoner-Physicians in Nazi Concentration and Forced Labor Camps,”International Researchers Workshop on Medicine in the Holocaust and Beyond, Akko, Israel, May 6, 2015
“Complicating the Grey Zone: Behavioral Trajectories of Prisoner-Physicians,” Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Triannual Conference, London, England, January 9, 2015
“The Case of Dr. Samuel: Resistance or Collaboration of an Auschwitz Prisoner-Physician?”
Holocaust Educational Foundation’s Lessons and Legacies Biannual International Conference, Evanston, IL, November 3, 2012
“Dr. Gisella Perl and Out of the Ashes: Making an Auschwitz Prisoner-Physician Acceptable to an Audience,”Annual European Summer School Ravensbrück, Fürstenberg, Germany, August31, 2011
Panels Organized
“Holocaust History in Professional School Curricula: Potentials and Realities in Business, Legal, and Medical Training” (tentative workshop title), Holocaust Educational Foundation’s Lessons and Legacies Biannual International Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 2018, proposal to be submitted November 2017
“Reconceptualizing Nazi Camps: Changing Categories, Shifting Purposes, and Evolving Contexts,” University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Center for Genocide Research Lecture Program, Los Angeles, CA, November7, 2016
“New Directions in ‘Gray Zone’ Research,” Holocaust Educational Foundation’s Lessons and Legacies Biannual Conference, Claremont, CA, November 4, 2016
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Guest Lectures
“Prisoner-Physicians in Nazi Camps: A Discussion of Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Distress”
Prof. Therkel Stræde
Medical Ethics and the Holocaust, The Medical Programme, University of Southern Denmark
October 6, 2016 and October 29, 2015
“The Gray Zone: The Holocaust and Human Behavior”
Prof. Albert Thompson
Northern Virginia Community College (Hosted by U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 15, 2016
“Jewish Prisoner-Physicians in Nazi Camps”
Prof. Hannah van den Ende
Medicine and Holocaust: Past and Present Bioethics from a German Perspective, CIEE Global Institute, Berlin, Germany
October 15, 2015
“The Aftermath: Trials and Denials”
Prof. Wolf Gruner
The Holocaust in 20th-Century Europe, Department of History, University of Southern California
April 29, 2014
“Primo Levi and the ‘Gray Zone’”
Prof. Sharon Gillerman
The Holocaust, Program of Judaic Studies, University of Southern California
March 6, 2014
“The Final Solution”
Prof. Paul Lerner
Modern Europe, Department of History, University of Southern California
November 21, 2013 and November 29, 2012
“Historiography of the ‘Gray Zone’”
Prof. Saul Friedländer
Capstone Seminar: Recent Debates in the Historiography of the Holocaust, Department of History, University of California–Los Angeles
February 20, 2013
Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California
Spring 2014, The Holocaust, Prof. Sharon Gillerman, Program of Judaic Studies
Fall 2013 and Fall 2012, Modern Europe, Prof. Paul Lerner, Department of History
Spring 2013, The Holocaust, Prof. Wolf Gruner, Program of Judaic Studies
Invited Contribution
“Prisoner-Physicians in Nazi Camps: Ethical Dilemmas and the Coercion-Resistance Spectrum” (tentative title of educational module) for Reflections on Medicine (acollaborative educational initiative of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School to complement medical school curricula and provide continuing education for health professionals in medical ethics and history), upload to site forthcoming
LANGUAGES
French: Proficient – all skills
German: Proficient – reading; Intermediate – speaking, writing, and aural comprehension
Yiddish: Proficient – reading; Elementary – speaking, writing, and aural comprehension
UPDATED OCTOBER 22, 2017
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