From Freeman Hrabowski, President, and Philip Rous, Provost Designate & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
We are delighted to announce that Rebecca Boehling, professor of history and director of the James T. and Virginia M. Dresher Center for the Humanities, has been named the next Director of the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, Germany. The ITS is unique in scope and significance, serving victims of Nazi persecutions and their families by documenting their fate, preserving crucial and indispensable historical records, and making its rich archive available for research.
Dr. Boehling was appointed unanimously by the eleven-member state International Commission, which supervises the work of the ITS, at its recent annual meeting in Paris. She will take a leave of absence from UMBC and begin her directorship on January 1, 2013.
Dr. Boehling’s impressive academic work makes her a natural choice for the position. She is an expert in the history of the Holocaust, World War II, and the early postwar period in Germany. She has studied and researched in Germany and had a research fellowship at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. Last year, she co-authored with Uta Larkey Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Jewish Family’s Untold Story, based on the family letters of Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, professor of biological sciences at UMBC. She will also bring important administrative experience to the ITS.
Dr. Boehling’s appointment is a testament to the international reputation she has earned for her scholarship while at UMBC. She hopes to connect UMBC students with research opportunities at ITS. We invite you to read more about Dr. Boehling’s appointment here.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Boehling on this exciting opportunity.
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