Our Researchers

Dr Cailee Davis

Dr Cailee Davis’s doctoral research traced patterns in transgenerational memory and representations of the Holocaust across media. She has completed fellowships with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure at the Jewish Museum in Prague, and the Holocaust Education Foundation at Northwestern University. Cailee also co-convened the Holocaust and Memory Seminar alongside Prof. Zoë Waxman at the University of Oxford for the 2024-2025 academic year.

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Dr Barnabas Balint

Dr Barnabas Balint is an historian of the Holocaust, specialising in the history of Jewish responses to persecution in Hungary and France. He completed his doctorate in History at Magdalen College, University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Zoë Waxman. He has held fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, University College London’s Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Southern California, University of London’s Institute of Historical Research, and at Yad Vashem under the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Conny Kristel Fellowship. 

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dR Niamh Hanrahan

Dr Niamh Hanrahan’s PhD research at the University of Manchester examined the migrations undertaken by Jewish refugees from Europe to Japan during the Holocaust. She has been awarded fellowships to conduct research in the USA, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Australia from the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, the Holocaust Education Foundation at Northwestern University, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the National Archives of Australia/Australian Historical Society.

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dr charlie knight

Dr Charlie Knight is an Honorary Fellow at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton, and a Research Fellow on the ISF funded project ‘The Nature of German Jews: Environmental Identities in Transition, 1870-1945’. He has held fellowships at the Weidenfeld Institute, University of Sussex, and the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Charlie completed his PhD at the University of Southampton in 2025. He is a member of the Board of the Leo Baeck Institute London.

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Leo Baeck Institute London