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Erin McGlothlin, professor of German and Jewish studies and vice dean of undergraduate affairs, won the 2023 Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize for “The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction.” Sponsored by the German Studies Association, the award is given to the best book published in the previous two years on the subject of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. McGlothlin’s book examines texts — nonfiction accounts and fictionalized portraits — that portray the inner experiences of Holocaust perpetrators.

Law professor and international criminal lawyer Leila Nadya Sadat explains why she’ll ‘never give up’ in the pursuit of a global treaty to prosecute mass crimes taking place in Ukraine and around the world.

In March, Italy’s Data Protection Agency took the extraordinary step of banning ChatGPT within the country over concerns about consent and personal data privacy. Ironically, this one-month ban may have provided the strongest evidence to date of the technology’s transformative impact on business and the economy.

Jewish books stolen by Nazis during World War II returned to Prague — by way of Washington University Libraries. In February 1972, more than 100 cartons of books made a cross-country journey from Los Angeles to St. Louis. Washington University paid $30,000 for the thousands of volumes that would comprise the bulk of the Shimeon Brisman Collection in […]

Prof. Cindy Brantmeier has been named to the advisory board for LANGUAGES, a multinational language acquisition research study.

Anika Walke, the Georgie W. Lewis Career Development Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a  senior fellowship in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie FRIAS COFUND Program.

Anca Parvulescu, the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature and professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2023 René Wellek Prize for best monograph from the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Parvulescu shares the award with sociologist Manuela Boatcă, head of school in the Global Studies […]

As Bulgarian social workers assist thousands of Ukrainian refugees, CSD’s Aytakin Huseynli is leading a group that offers global support. Aytakin Huseynli knows about living through war. Growing up in Baku, Azerbaijan, she was a child when the Soviet Union collapsed, protesters demanded Azerbaijan’s independence, and the Soviets invaded. She remembers people hiding in basements, her […]