Biography
Ph.D. Indiana University; History and Jewish Studies, Associate Professor. Professor Simon is the William and Audrey Farber Family Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History. She holds a joint appointment with James Madison College and the Department of History in the College of Social Science and is a core faculty member of the Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel in the College of Arts and Letters. Dr. Simon is a former fellow and researcher at the United
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2024: MSU Honors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students (with collaborators Deborah Margolis, Lynn Wolff, Steven Weiland)
2024: MSU History Department award for DEI contributions in teaching and service
2022: MSU Teacher-Scholar Award
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Book: Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries: Encountering Persecutors and Questioning Humanity (London and New York: Routledge, 2023).
Written Remnants of Catastrophe: Holocaust Diaries as Historical Sources for Studying the Holocaust: A Guide for Students, edited by Paul Bartrop, 33-44. London and New York: Routledge, 2023.
Imperfect Humans and Perfect Beasts: Changing Perceptions of German and Jewish Persecutors in Holocaust Ghetto Diaries. Journal of Jewish Identities13, no. 1 (2020): 85-106.
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