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Alfred and Anita Schnog Travel Award

Research & Innovation

The Alfred and Anita Schnog Travel Award for Holocaust Studies provides grants of up to $4,000 for travel to international sites OR up to $3,000 for travel to domestic sites to engage in faculty-mentored applied learning projects examining the social, cultural, and geo-political forces that enabled the Holocaust to occur as well as its impact and legacy.

The award is available to UNCW sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students with a GPA of 3.0 or above. Recipients have traveled to France, Germany, Greece, Poland, and Serbia, as well as Boston and New York City, to study the Holocaust.

Awardees present their research findings at the Schnog Travel Award Project Showcase, which is attended by members of the Schnog Family Foundation and the UNCW community.

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“ My Schnog Paris trip was transformative. Honestly, I probably never would have gotten to go there without this award. ”
Kris Rafferty

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Past Recipients and Funded Research Projects

Lara Boyle (Creative Writing MFA) “Hatikvah: A Graphic Memoir”

Haedyn Brewer (History MA) “Massacres by Fire: Comparative Reflections on Japanese Commemorations of the Nazi and Atomic Holocausts”

Catie Jacobson (History B.A.) “To Read is to Resist: Cultural Archives & Literature as Mechanisms of Covert Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw, Poland"

William Osborne (History B.A.) “German Museums and the Role of Nazi Propaganda in the Holocaust”

Rebecca Malzer (History MA) “Austria’s Nazi Past and Complicity in the Holocaust”

Alec Ott (History B.A.) “The policies of Jozef Tiso, leader of the Slovak Nazi satellite state, on the Slovak Jewish community”

Isabella Thomas (History B.A.) “A Comparison of Holocaust Memorials in the American South and the American North”

Katelyn Bright (History MA) “Holocaust Memorialization: Interpretations of Resistance at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem”

Skye Dlugy-Hegwer, (Art & Art History B.A.) “Reverberation of the Holocaust in Soviet Jewish Art”

Lauren Jenkins (History B.A. with minor in Philosophy & Religion) “The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Culture in Prague, Czechia”

June White (International Studies B.A.) “Nazi Medical Experimentation and the Impact of the Nuremburg Code on Modern Medical Ethics”

Madison Stringfellow (Public and International Affairs B.A.) - travel to Belgrade, Serbia to study Yugoslavia's endurance of WWII and the Holocaust; "Lost Stories of Belgrade"

Thomas McCallister (History B.A.)

Hannah Thompson (Social Work BSW)

Kris Rafferty (English B.A.) - travel to Paris to study the Holocaust

Kevin Gallagher (History B.A.) - travel to Greece to study the impact of the Holocaust on the Jewish communities of Athens, Ionnina, and Thessaloniki; "La Madre de Israel"

Robert Murphy (History B.A.) - travel to New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston and Holocaust Memorial Park in NYC; "Holocaust Memorials: Creating a Bridge to the Past"

Kathryn Fulton (History B.A.)

Jacob Lamonsoff (History B.A.)

Stephanie Taylor (History B.A.) - archival research on women forced into prostitution in the Nazi concentration camps of Westerbork, Ravensbruck, and Auschwitz-Birkenau

Lynn Rawls (History B.A.) - travel to sites in Warsaw and Krakow to examine how the Nazi genocide is commemorated in Poland today and the controversy that has surrounded it

Emma Cowen (French B.A.) - travel to Lyon, France, investigating the French Resistance during World War II
2025-26 Schnog Essay Challenge
Schnog Travel Award Flyer

Pictured to the left: Primo Michele Levi, chemist, partisan, writer, and Holocaust survivor.

The third Alfred & Anita Schnog Essay Challenge Committee asks participants to respond to this question based on their reading of Liana Millu's Smoke over Birkenau: “How were women dehumanized and defeminized at Auschwitz Birkenau?” Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to participate.

Essays should be between 2,500 and 5,000 words (approx. 5-10 pages in length, in 12-point font, excluding reference notes).

  • First Place Prize: $500
  • Second Place Prize: $300
  • Third Place Prize: $200

Deadline for submissions: May 10, 2026. Recipients will be notified of the results by June 30, 2025. Send submissions to Michael Seidman.