Hana G. Green serves as the inaugural Rose Mibab and Carl Goldberg Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the College of Charleston. She is a socio-cultural historian of the Holocaust, modern Jewish history and culture, and modern Europe. Hana’s research centers on Jewish responses to persecution, gender and identity formation, borderland and migration studies, and the dynamics of intercultural exchange and adaptation.

Hana’s work has been supported by fellowships from the Claims Conference, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and others. She is currently adapting her dissertation on Jewish identity passing as a survival mechanism in Central Europe during the Holocaust into a book manuscript. In addition, Hana is co-editor of a forthcoming volume with Metropol Verlag and has several upcoming publications with De Gruyter and Oxford University Press.

As a former middle school classroom teacher, museum professional, and graduate student instructor, Hana brings extensive pedagogical experience to her teaching role at the Center. She aims to foster historically grounded, student-centered learning environments, encouraging critical engagement with archival materials, primary sources, and the construction of historical narratives. Hana is also a lead instructor, course developer and facilitator of the biannual Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute hosted by the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA, and serves as a research consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s permanent exhibition revitalization project.

Her duties as postdoctoral fellow in the Zucker/Goldberg Center include the co-creation of a new international project focused on second and third generation oral histories of the Holocaust. Hana also participates in the Center’s advancement initiatives through public lectures, assistance in the creation of local public-facing history projects, her leadership in teacher professional development workshops, and contributions to course development in the field of Holocaust history.

Hana received her PhD in History from Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She received her MA in Holocaust Studies from the University of Haifa and her BA in History from the University of Florida. Find Hana’s CV here and get in touch via email.

Select Recent Publications and Lectures:

“Transformations and Emergent Themes in American Jewish Women’s History,” Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal, 18, no. 2 (November 2022).

“Passing on the Periphery: A Call for the Critical Reconsideration of Research on Identity ‘Passing’ as a Jewish Response to Persecution During the Holocaust,” The Journal of Holocaust Research 36, no. 2-3 (June 2022): 111-127.

“‘Whatever happens, never reveal to anyone that you’re Jewish,’ Identity Passing as a Jewish Response to Persecution during the Nazi Period, 1933-1945,” Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies, College of Charleston, October 2025.