Dr. Amber N. Nickell earned a PhD in Central and Eastern European history from Purdue University (2021). She is an award-winning scholar who has presented at numerous local, national, and international conferences. She is a recipient of several other research grants and fellowships, among them the Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellowship in Atrocity Prevention, the Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship, and the Fulbright Fellowship (Ukraine). Dr. Nickell is dedicated to public Holocaust education and awareness in her community. She is a podcast host on the New Books Network and an editor for H-Ukraine. She regularly publishes and actively reviews in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Ukrainian Studies. Her book, Brother-lands to Bloodlands: Ethnic Germans and Jews in Southern Ukraine, Late Tsarist to Postwar, will be published by Indiana University Press in Fall 2026.
Amber Nickell
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Dr. Amber N. Nickell earned a PhD in Central and Eastern European history from Purdue University (2021). She is an award-winning scholar who has presented at numerous local, national, and international conferences. She is a recipient of several other research grants and fellowships, among them the Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellowship in Atrocity Prevention, the…