June 2023- Summer Institute Fellow for Genocide Studies and Prevention, Keene State College
This summer institute, now the Scheidt Family Seminar, is designed for educators in Genocide Studies who are working towards the prevention of mass-violence.
March 2023- Images of Research, Finalist, UMass Amherst
The Images of Research Competition, hosted by the UMass Amherst graduate school, presents graduate students with opportunities to depict their research photographically. Winners are selected by voters at their annual Three-Minute-Thesis competition.
Oct 2022- Instructional Innovation Fellow (IFF), UMass Amherst
May 2023 The IFF is given to UMass instructors who are currently engaging in innovative teaching practices and interested in sharing their ideas with (and learning from) fellow UMass instructors.
Sep 2022- Research Associateship, Five College Women’s Research Center
June 2022 The FCWRC granted me residency that includes a community of feminist scholars with whom to collaborate and conduct research.
June 2022 Northwestern University Summer School Fellowship, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University
The theme of this two-week recurring summer school–a well-known program in Holocaust Studies– is “The Holocaust and Jewish Civilization.”
May 2022 Södertörn University Summer School Fellowship; Stockholm, Sweden
The theme of this summer school was “History and Memory of the Holocaust: Comparative Perspectives on Nazi Genocides of Jews and Roma.”
April 2022 Sharon Abramson Research Grant, Holocaust Educational Foundation
of Northwestern University
HEFNU awarded me the support to access the Lore Shelley papers at the Tauber Holocaust library in San Francisco, California.
March 2022 “3 Minute Thesis” Winner, UMass Amherst
The Three Minute Thesis competition, held annually by the UMass Amherst Graduate School, prompts graduate students to articulate their research to a crowd of educated non-specialists. Ten finalists then proceed to the final, recorded competition.
Dec 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award (Nominated), UMass Amherst
This award honors exemplary teaching at the highest institutional level.
May 2021 University of Massachusetts Dissertation Fieldwork Grant Award
This grant permitted me to visit the Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen in order to access the collection of the Bund der „Euthanasie“-Geschädigten und Zwangssterilisierten (BEZ). The archive houses hundreds of letters and testimonies from sterilization survivors.
March 2021 “3 Minute Thesis“ Top 10 Finalist, UMass Amherst
June 2021 DEFA Summer Institute Scholarship, DEFA Film Library, UMass
This scholarship permitted me to attend the week-long, virtual DEFA Summer Institute on “Authority & Alterity in East German Films.”
July 2021 Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship, Museum of Jewish Heritage
Though this fellowship generally entails 3.5 weeks of travel within Poland, including visiting former concentration camps and sites of Jewish life, the in-situ program was substituted in 2021 by a three day virtual seminar due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 2020 Zantop Graduate Student Travel Award, Coalition of Women in German
This travel award is designed to sustain research and publication in feminist cultural studies. I used this award to support my archival research at the Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessing materials of the the Bund der ,,Euthanasie’’-Geschädigten und Zwangssterilisierten.
at the Nordrhein-Westfalen Landesarchiv in Detmold, Germany
Sep 2019- Interdisciplinary Studies Institute (ISI) Seminar Fellowship, UMass
May 2020 As a year long seminar organized around the theme of ‘Belonging,’ the ISI offersgraduate students and faculty the opportunity to lead discussion, workshop projects, and facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration.
May 2018 Yiddish Book Center Program Scholarship
The Yiddish Book Center generously provides scholarships to select applicants for their weekend programs. As such, I was a recipient of their scholarship for their weekend program entitled ‘Yiddish Women Writers.’
Dec 2017 University of Massachusetts Pre-dissertation Research Grant Award
The Pre-Dissertation Research Grant Award provides graduate students with the opportunity to not only determine feasibility of a proposed project, but cultivate the skills necessary to undertake proposed research. As such, this award permitted me to attend the German Script Course at the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Here I learned not only how to read and write German script, but honed the skills to decipher script in archival documents–a skill necessary in order to read handwritten testimonies towards the ends of writing my dissertation .
Oct 2017 Yiddish Book Center Program Scholarship
Much like the aforementioned scholarship, I was kindly granted the opportunity to attend a weekend program at the Yiddish Book Center. The theme of this program was entitled ‘S.Ansky.’
Sep 2010- Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, Fulbright Commission,
Jun 2011 Hamburg, Germany
As an English Teaching Assistant and Fulbright Fellow, I assisted English language teachers in the classroom at Gymnasium Ohlstedt in Hamburg, Germany.
Sep 2009 First Group Scholar, Smith College
This special designation is granted to those in the top 10% of their graduating class.
Sep 2006- Van Valkenburg Scholarship, Ashfield, Massachusetts
May 2010 Granted by the town of Ashfield, Massachusetts, this scholarship is granted to academically distinguished undergraduates.
Tiarra Maznick, PhD 