Rebecca McClung

Ph.D. Student, Public History Student

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BACKGROUND

Rebecca Cole McClung is a Ph.D. student studying postwar German history, public history, and Holocaust memory. Her research focuses on the memory of the Holocaust in the German Democratic Republic and how it impacted national narrative formation. She currently works as a Research Assistant for the UMass Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. As a Hyde Public History Fellow, Rebecca contributed to the curation of the Smith College Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition titled Artists Under Siege: German Art 1918-1945. 

Rebecca has her B.A. in history and German and German studies from Sewanee: The University of the South. While abroad in Germany, she conducted biographical research for the Stolpersteine Project in Berlin and then served as a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Young Ambassador. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Modern Europe
  • Divided Germany
  • Holocaust History
  • Memory Studies

Research Areas

Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern,
European,
Global and Comparative