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  Waitman Wade Beorn

  Waitman Wade Beorn is the Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and assistant professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and earned his PhD in History from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. Waitman’s first monograph, Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus, focuses on the local participation of the German Army in the Holocaust in Belarus. It traces a progression of ever-increasing complicity in the Nazi genocidal project. Waitman has held Fulbright and Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowships and his work has been published in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Central European History. He continues to center his research on the local experience of the Holocaust.

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  Tim Cole

  Tim Cole is Professor of Social History at the University of Bristol. He received his PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge. His books on social and cultural histories and historical geographies of the Holocaust are Images of the Holocaust/Selling the Holocaust (Duckworth/Routledge 1999); Holocaust City (Routledge 2003) and Traces of the Holocaust (Continuum 2011). Tim is also a co-editor of Militarized Landscapes (Continuum 2010) which includes research undertaken during an AHRC-funded research grant into comparative environmental histories of militarized landscapes. Tim is currently writing a spatial history of the Holocaust.

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  Simone Gigliotti

  Simone Gigliotti is a Senior Lecturer in the History Program at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests include histories and journeys of displacement in twentieth-century Europe (Germany, Spain, Italy), and the application of spatial and transnational approaches to analyses of historical experience. She is co-editor, with Berel Lang, of The Holocaust: a Reader (Blackwell 2005), and author of The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (Berghahn Books 2009) and many journal articles and book chapters on Holocaust representation, Central European refugee diasporas, and survivor testimonies.

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  Alberto Giordano

  Alberto Giordano is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at Texas State University in San Marcos. He holds a PhD in Geography from Syracuse University, an MA in Geography from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a BA in Geography from the University of Padua in Italy. Before pursuing an academic career, he worked in the map publishing sector and in the GIS field as a consultant for private companies and public agencies in Italy and internationally. His most recent work has focused on the geography of the Holocaust and genocide, spatial applications of forensic anthropology, and historical GIS. He is the author of one book (in Italian) on quality control in GIS and of several publications in GIScience, historical cartography, and hazards geography. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the 2009 edition of the Goode’s World Atlas.

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  Chester Harvey

  Chester Harvey is a graduate student studying Natural Resources and Environmental Planning at the University of Vermont. He received his BA in Geography from Middlebury College. He has contributed to research at the Spatial History Lab at Stanford University, and is the cartographer for Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868 (University of Chicago Press 2013) by Anne Kelly Knowles. His professional experience includes GIS education and renewable energy consulting.

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  Anna Holian

  Anna Holian is Associate Professor of Modern European History at Arizona State University. She received her PhD in Modern European History from the University of Chicago in 2005. Her work with the Holocaust Geographies research project focuses on Italy. She is engaged in two book projects on the theme of the cultural and social reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War. “Somewhere in Europe: Children and the Legacy of National Socialism in Postwar Film” explores how postwar European filmmakers addressed one of the critical issues of the day, “war children.” The second project, “Jewish Space in Postwar Germany,” employs spatial history as a new window onto the reconstruction of Jewish life in early postwar Germany. She is the author of Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism: Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (University of Michigan Press 2011). She also co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies on “The Refugee in the Postwar World, 1945-1960.”

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  Paul B. Jaskot

  Paul B. Jaskot is Professor of Art History at DePaul University. He received his PhD in Art History from Northwestern University. His work focuses on the political history of art with a particular emphasis on the Nazi period and its postwar impact. He is the author of The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy (Routledge 2000) and, most recently, The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right (University of Minnesota Press 2012). He co-edited with Gavriel Rosenfeld Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past (University of Michigan 2008). From 2008-2010, Jaskot was the President of the College Art Association, and he is currently the Director of the Holocaust Education Foundation Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization.

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  Anne Kelly Knowles

  Anne Kelly Knowles is Professor and Chair of the Geography Department at Middlebury College. She received her PhD and MSc in Geography from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio’s Industrial Frontier (University of Chicago Press 1997) and Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868 (University of Chicago Press 2013), which is partly based on an HGIS of the industry. Formerly a professional book editor, Anne edited two of the first essay collections on HGIS: Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History (ESRI Press 2002) and Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship (ESRI Press 2008). In 2012 her work was recognized by the American Ingenuity Award for Historical Scholarship from Smithsonian magazine.

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  Marc J. Masurovsky

  Marc J. Masurovsky is a historian based in Washington, DC, who consults with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the Claims Conference on a variety of geographic and historical projects, including prisoners’ labor, cultural plunder, death marches, and concentration camps in France and North Africa. He received an MA in Modern European History from American University in 1991. In 2005 he and members of the USHMM staff formed the Geographies of the Holocaust project, which led to the 2007 summer workshop that launched the Holocaust Geographies research group. His current projects include completing a book on the history and dynamics of cultural plunder during the Third Reich and its postwar consequences, overseeing development of the “Database of Art Objects that Transited through the Jeu de Paume, 1940-1944” project, and directing the Provenance Research Training Program (PRTP) of the Prague-based European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESLI). He is co-author of Le festin du Reich: Le pillage de la France occupée 1940-1945 (Editions Fayard 2006).

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  Erik Steiner

  Erik Steiner is an interaction designer, cartographer, researcher, educator, and technologist with more than 15 years’ experience at the intersection of technology, creative arts, and academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. He has led the development and design of major interactive and information design projects with cd-rom, web, and touchscreen technologies for art museums, National Parks, corporate websites, and academic research through major grants from the Getty, Kress and Mellon Foundations, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Socities. His creative work has won multiple national and international awards, notably for the interactive Atlas of Oregon and the Interactive Nolli Map of Rome. Erik is the Creative Director of the Spatial History Project (a part of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis) at Stanford University, and the Past-President of the North American Cartographic Information Society. He received his MS in Geography from Pennsylvania State University in 2001.

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Presentations, documents, and multimedia pertaining to the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure 2013 Workshop on "Geography and Holocaust Research", hosted by the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, Germany.

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