Laura Brade

Assistant Professor of History
Modern European History

Office: Robinson Hall 207
Phone: 517/629-0390
Email:

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 Offered

• 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)