Dr. Hannah Wilson

Biography

Hannah Wilson is a Rothschild Foundation Fellow and a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester. She lectures part-time on Holocaust studies and serves as a teaching fellow in Holocaust history at the University of Leicester. In 2023, she obtained a PhD from Nottingham Trent University, focusing on material memory related to the Sobibor death camp. Her research interests encompass Holocaust studies, Jewish history, memory studies, conflict and genocide studies, museum studies, and material culture. Wilson has published numerous articles and chapters on Holocaust memory and has co-edited several volumes, including 'Absence and Affirmation: Papers from the 23rd Workshop on History and Memory at National Socialist Camps and Extermination Sites' (Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2025) and 'New Microhistorical Approaches to Integrated History of the Holocaust' (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023). She has presented her research at leading institutions globally, including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and has received several scholarly awards and fellowships. In addition to her academic work, she engages with the community as an Outreach Officer for the Generation 2 Generation Holocaust charity and serves as Content Director for World ORT's Music and the Holocaust project.

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