The present spring semester is the final one at Yale for associate professor and renowned Holocaust scholar Deborah Dwork. Currently working at the Child Study Center, Dwork has been named the Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History and Culture at Clark University.
Dwork has written numerous publications regarding the Holocaust. She is currently working on the book Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present, co-authored by Robert Jan van Pelt, professor at Waterloo University in Canada.
Dwork cites two reasons for her departure. "I was very happy here at Yale. There are 2,000 great things about this institution. But coming from my situation, the position at Clark is a tremendous opportunity. I have been offered the first full-time, endowed, tenured professorship dealing with the Holocaust," she said.
Dwork will also be the director of the soon-to-be-established Center for Holocaust Study at Clark, the first institution of its kind. "It is my job and pleasure to shape the direction of the new center," Dwork said.
-- Santosh Aravind
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