Dr. Hinda AVERY Scholarship in Holocaust Studies

Award descriptionScholarships totalling $2,000 have been made available annually through a gift from Dr. Hinda Avery (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1985, Ph.D. 1993). The scholarships are available for outstanding graduate students in the Department of Central, Eastern, & Northern European Studies whose research is in or related to Holocaust Studies. Dr. Avery is an artist and retired lecturer of women's studies. During the Holocaust, many members of Dr. Avery's family were murdered by the Nazis. Her work includes a series of paintings titled the Rosen Women, after her mother's maiden name, depicting herself, her sister, mother, grandmother and aunt as superhero female resisters. Dr. Avery directed a film in 2005 on Holocaust memorialization in Germany called The Art of Apology, and her art was the subject of a short film titled Hinda and her Sisterrrz, which premiered in 2017 and was shown at Jewish film festivals throughout North America. The scholarships are made on the recommendation of the Department of Central, Eastern, & Northern European Studies, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.