HOLOCAUST MUSEUM NAMES SULEIMAN SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE

The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has named Susan Rubin Suleiman, the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, professor of comparative literature, and acting chair of the Department of Literature and Comparative Literature, to be the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the museum for 2009-10. Each year the Shapiro scholar gives one formal public lecture as well as two senior seminar sessions for museum staff and fellows at the center.