Jeffrey Koerber‘s dissertation, “Born in the Borderlands,” analyzes the prewar lives of young Jews in Vitebsk in the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and Grodno in the Second Republic of Poland, examining those factors that shaped identity and how their sense of identity affected responses to the Shoah. Mr. Koerber’s research has taken him to archives in the United States, Belarus, and Poland, applying language skills in Yiddish, German, Russian, and Belorussian. Mr. Koerber’s dissertation advisor is Professor Deborah Dwork. He was a Research Associate and Holocaust History Fellow in Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University for the 2011-2012 academic year where he taught Holocaust history, as well as guest lectured and assisted in the administration of outreach programs. Currently, he is a Research Associate in Chapman’s History Department and a Fellow at Clark University.