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)