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Avril Alba is Associate Professor in Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation in the Discipline of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. She teaches and researches in the areas of Holocaust and modern Jewish history with a focus on Jewish and Holocaust museums. Her monograph, The Holocaust Memorial Museum: Sacred Secular Space was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2015. From 2002-2011 Avril was the Education Director at the Sydney Jewish Museum where she also served as the Project Director/Curator for the permanent exhibitions Culture and Continuity (2009), The Holocaust (2017) and The Holocaust and Human Rights (2018 with Prof Jennifer Barrett and Prof Dirk Moses). Her current major research project, The Memory of the Holocaust in Australian Public Life is supported by an ARC Discovery Grant.
Associate Professor Avril Alba.
Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, School of Languages and Cultures (SLC)
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3281