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Anika Walke is an Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis, with affiliations in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies, and Global Studies. She holds the Georgie W. Lewis Career Development Professorship and earned her PhD from the University of California. Her research focuses on the aftermath of the Nazi genocide in Belarus, memory studies, and digital humanities. She explores how communities remember and cope with the legacies of systematic violence, particularly through oral histories, testimonies, and spatial analysis.
Walke’s work bridges historical scholarship with digital innovation, including the Holocaust Ghettos Project, which uses GIS to map Nazi ghettos and reframe Holocaust studies. She has published extensively on Soviet Jewish experiences, survivor narratives, and the interplay of memory and geopolitics in post-Soviet contexts. Her book Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia (2015) examines the lived experiences of Soviet Jews during WWII and their postwar memory formation.
Her research has been recognized with awards such as the Heldt Prize (2015) and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Award (2004). She has also secured grants from the NEH, including a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for the Holocaust Ghettos Project. Walke’s teaching emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, with courses on the Holocaust, Soviet history, and migration studies.
Walke collaborates with scholars and institutions globally, advocating for reparative memorial practices and critical curation. Her work addresses the ethical complexities of representing trauma and the role of digital tools in reshaping historical understanding.
