Sarah听Gavison, PhD Candidate in History and Jewish Studies,听is entering the writing phase of her dissertation.听For the academic year 2017-2018, Sarah was awarded two prestigious fellowships, the Truman Library Institute鈥檚 Dissertation Year Fellowship and the University of Colorado Boulder's Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship, in order to finish her dissertation on 鈥淲hat Should We Do with the Jews? The USSR, the US, Jewish refugees in Post-World War II Europe, and the Creation of Israel.鈥� She intends to graduate in the Spring 2018.
This summer, she will present part of her work at the King鈥檚 College of London at the diplomatic history conference 鈥淲hen East meets West: The Second World War in Global Perspective鈥� (June 21-23), and participate in the International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry in Prague (July 3-6).听