Valerie Hébert
Dr. Hébert is an Associate Professor within the Department of History and Interdisciplinary Studies at Lakehead University. She is interested in teaching themes of world, European and German history. Additionally, she is interested in researching aspects of war, human rights and genocide.
She has written on topics including the Nuremberg Trials, Rwanda’s Gacaca Tribunals and the Holocaust in devloping Human Rights Law. She is also the recipient of research fellowships from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the German Historical Institute, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, and the Martin Buber Society of Hebrew University.
Listing Details
| Institution: | Lakehead University |
| Fields of Expertise: | Commemoration and Memorialization Holocaust Studies Human Rights Memory Politics |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | vhebert@lakeheadu.ca |
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| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | “Photographs” in: Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt, eds. Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020 (cloth); 2022 (paperback). “The Problem of Human Rights after The Holocaust” for the collection: The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Holocaust. ed. Hilary Earl and Simone Gigliotti, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. |
