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Charlotte
Kiechel

Klatt Family Director for Public Programs

University of Pennsylvania

Bio

Charlotte Kiechel is the Klatt Family Director of Public Programs at the Katz Center. In that role, she oversees and manages the Center’s public programming initiatives. Prior to joining the staff in 2025, Kiechel held positions at Penn’s Wolf Humanities Center, Williams College, and Wesleyan University. A historian of modern European history and decolonization, Kiechel publishes on Jewish internationalism, Holocaust memory, and Holocaust and genocide studies. She earned her Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in history from Yale and her B.A. from Williams College. 

Selected publications

  • Genocide’s Shadow: Holocaust Memory at the End of Empire (Yale University Press, forthcoming).
  • “Holocaust Research and Genocide Studies: Facing the Problem of Integration,” in Handbook of Genocide Studies, ed. L. Kahn and D. Simon (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023), 72–83.

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