Dr. Melissa Karp joined the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education (MCHE) team as its new content specialist.
This newly created position is intended to bolster MCHE's capacity to develop and deliver high-quality programming, ensuring that its educational offerings continue to grow and evolve. Karp’s early work will focus on providing resources and learning opportunities for our educators and school communities.
“I am thrilled to join MCHE and continue using Holocaust education and media literacy to counter intolerance and hatred,” Karp said. “After completing my doctoral research on the ways people enabled or fought against atrocity during World War II, and how we remember those people, I look forward to continuing to teach about what can happen when we allow ourselves to be divided, and how we can stand up for and with each other in these darkest moments.”
Karp earned her Ph.D. in literature from Duke University, where she successfully defended her dissertation titled “An Enemy Within: Imagining the Collaborator in Transwar France and Korea.” Her research explores themes of memory, memorialization, collaboration, resistance and the Holocaust in France.
Karp taught extensively at Duke, and “her skills were particularly evident in the insightful job talk she delivered during her interview process. Her ability to weave together history and literature enhances MCHE's programmatic offerings, enriching the way we engage with this complex and critical subject matter,” said MCHE Executive Director Jessica Rockhold.
