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Rebecca Wittmann (PhD University of Toronto) is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the Holocaust, postwar Germany, the trials of Nazi perpetrators, and German legal history, with recent work examining generational memory and shame. She has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well as from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Wittmann has published articles in Central European History and German History, among others, and her book, Justice: The Auschwitz Trial (Harvard University Press, 2005), won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. She is currently working on a monograph titled Guilt and Shame Across Generations: Confronting the Past in Postwar Germany and has an edited volume, The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered, forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press in Fall 2021.
Department of Sociology