Natalia
Aleksiun
University of Florida
Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellow
Research Topic
Jews, Cadavers, and the Politics of Medical Discourse in East Central Europe
Bio
Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, where she teaches courses on the Holocaust and its aftermath, Eastern Europe, Jewish childhood, and the history of medicine. She serves as editor of East European Jewish Affairs and has written extensively on the history of Polish Jews and the Holocaust. She is completing a monograph on the so-called “Cadaver Affair” in medical schools in East Central Europe between two world wars.
Aleksiun holds doctoral degrees from Warsaw University and New York University.
Selected publications
- Gender and Jewish Women in Central and Eastern Europe: Sources and Interpretations, coedited with E. Bemporad (Palgrave, under contract).
- “Pleading for Cadavers: Medical Students at the University of Vienna and the Study of Anatomy,” Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation 2.2 (2015): 4–10.
