Barbie Zelizer

Barbie Zelizer, the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, was named the 2017-18 Rutman Teaching Fellow by the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation.

Dr. Zelizer will use her fellowship to teach the PhD research seminar, “Mediating War and Genocide Through Visual Memory” in partnership with the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy at the Technical University of Berlin. The seminar will take place through the end of the spring 2018 semester and into the summer, with a two-week immersive experience in Berlin.

The fellowship, created in 2012, is awarded to one Penn professor each year and provides funding for a course that integrates the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (VHA) into its curriculum. The VHA has more than 55,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide, including the Holocaust, the Nanjing Massacre in China and the genocides in Rwanda, Armenia, Cambodia and Guatemala (Almanac April 24, 2012).