Gabriele Meyer-Fellowship 2026
Alexia M. Orengo Green is a PhD candidate in the Van Hunnick History Department at the University of Southern California, where she also received a Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies. She holds a BA in History and Archaeology from Dickinson College and an MA in Public History from New York University. In addition to her academic work, Orengo Green conducts interviews for USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (VHA) and has participated in multiple oral history works, including the NEH-supported project “Memory & History: Transforming the Narrative of the Spanish Civil War & Francoist Dictatorship.”
Orengo Green has been awarded multiple fellowships and research grants such as the Beth and Arthur Lev Student Research Fellowship from USC’s Center for Advanced Genocide Research, the Fritz Thyssen Pre-Dissertation Fellowship from the German Historical Institute, the Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship, Shoah Foundation’s Steve and Sandy Cozen Graduate Fellowship, the Junior Fellow at the Center for Holocaust Studies from the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, Germany, and the Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship.
About Alexia M. Orengo Green's Fellowship-Projekt: During my time in IGdJ, I will continue to work on my dissertation project, which investigates the German-Jewish children who escaped with or without their parents Nazi Germany during the Holocaust and went to various countries in Latin America. Through my focus on the experiences of young German-Jewish refugees I investigate how children acculturated into their countries of refuge and how they utilized their agency to adapt and aid their families and communities navigate the new social, racial, and cultural ideologies they encountered.