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Laura Brade

Assistant Professor of History
Modern European History

Office: Robinson Hall 209
Phone: (517) 629-0390
Email: lbrade@albion.edu

Education

  • 2017 Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (History)
  • 2011 M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (History)
  • 2008 B.A., Pacific Lutheran University (History and German Language and Literature)

Courses

  • 1500 Europe 2000
  • 1789 Europe 1918
  • 1918 Europe 1989
  • Nazi Germany

Scholarly Activity

Current Research Project

  • “Networks of Escape: Jewish Flight from the Bohemian Lands, 1938-1941”

Articles

  • “Troublesome Sainthood: Nicholas Winton and the Contested History of Child Rescue in Prague, 1938-1940,” with Rose Holmes (History and Memory, March 2017)

Research Interests

  • Modern European History
  • Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  • Migration and Refugees
  • Central and Eastern Europe

Awards

  • Lovick P. Corn Dissertation Fellowship, Royster Society of Fellows, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2016—2017)
  • Margit Meissner Fund for the Study of the Holocaust in the Czech Lands Fellow Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2013-2014)
  • Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (2012—2014)
  • Fulbright U.S. Student Fellowship, Czech Republic, Jewish Museum in Prague (2012—2013)
  • European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Fellowship, Jewish Museum in Prague (2012)
  • Foreign Language Area Studies Academic Year Grant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2010—2012)
  • Two-Week Research Fellowships for Ph.D. Students from Abroad, Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research (2011)
  • Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Grant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2010 and 2011)