Katrina Hermann is an MA student in UBC’s Department of History. Her SSHRC-funded research under the co-supervision of Dr. Richard Menkis and Dr. Tamara Myers examines the evolution of Holocaust memory and education in Canada from 1976-2003 through a comparative case study of the Montreal Holocaust Museum and Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.

Research interests:

• Public History
• Canadian Responses to the Holocaust
• Memory Studies
• Canadian Jewish Studies
• Oral History
• Genocide Studies

Working thesis title: Remembering Elsewhere: The Development of Holocaust Memorial Institutions in Canada, 1976-2003.

Research Assistantships

“The Runaways Project: Street Youth and the Transformation of Adolescence in Canada, 1960s-1990s,” Dr. Tamara Myers, ongoing

Conferences

“Fractured Memory: The dialectical process of memory and obscurity at the Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück and the Gedenkort Konzentrationslager Uckermark,” presented at Shifting Tides History Conference, SFU, January 31, 2026.

“Becoming World Class: Professionalization of Grassroots Holocaust Centres in Canada,” presented at Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, Carleton University, February 26, 2026.

Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Master’s Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), 2025

Supervisors: Dr. Richard Menkis and Dr. Tamara Myers

Teaching Assistantships 2025W

• HIST 348, History of the Holocaust, Dr. Richard Menkis
• HIST 113, Global History since 1900, Dr. Heidi Tworek