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Anika Walke is an Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis, holding affiliations with the Departments of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies; Global Studies; and Russian Language and Literature. Her research focuses on the aftermath of Nazi genocide in Belarus, Holocaust memory, and the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and violence in Soviet and post-Soviet contexts. She holds a PhD from the University of California and has authored multiple books and articles on these themes.
Walke’s work emphasizes oral histories and digital humanities, co-leading the Holocaust Ghettos Project to map Nazi ghettos. Her 2015 book Pioneers and Partisans explores Soviet Jewish survival and memory during WWII. She has received the Heldt Prize (2015) and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship (2023).
Her research also investigates Belarusian protest movements, migration, and Soviet-era memory politics. Awards include grants from the NEH Digital Humanities program and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Walke teaches courses on Holocaust history, Soviet society, and gender in Eastern Europe, advocating for community-engaged memory practices through initiatives like the StudioLab course on trauma and memory.
