Dr. Eileen Lyon
Prolific may best describe the research Department of History Professor Eileen Lyon has compiled on the Holocaust and recently shared.
Dr. Lyon presented her work at various international conferences, received a prestigious award and participated in national and local seminars and exhibits. Teaching interests of Lyon include British and European history, history of the Holocaust and religious and political history.
She regularly teaches a history of the Holocaust class and brings her scholarly work into the classroom. In addition, Lyon has mentored a number of students who worked with archival materials on the Holocaust.
Lyon presented two papers in June, including:
• “Women as ‘vicars’ and ‘prelates’ in Nazi Prisons and Concentration Camps,” presented at CIHEC (Commission Internationale d’Histoire et d’Etudes du Christianisme/International Commission for History and Studies of Christianity), University of Latvia; in Riga, Latvia, on June 3.
• “Polish Catholic Women in Pawiak Prison” presented at PIASA (Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America) World Congress, Collegium Civitas; in Warsaw, Poland, on June 9.
In addition, Lyon received the “If not for the ten…” (Museum Director’s Award) for special contributions to promoting the memory of Auschwitz [relates to work restoring the identities of those deported to and imprisoned in KL Auschwitz], at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum; Oświęcim, Poland, on July 2.
Lyon was a panelist at the “Educators’ and Students’ Perspectives on Antisemitism Post October 7th” at 11th International Conference for Educators at Yad Vashem: Holocaust Education in a Global Context,” Yad Vashem – The International Institute for Holocaust Education; in Jerusalem, Israel, on July 4, and was also a selected workshop participant at “Finding Religion in the USHMM Collections: New Methods for Archival Research,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; in Washington, D.C., from July 29 to Aug. 2.
Lyon curated the Exhibition for World War II Polish Remembrance Day: ‘Serving God not only in happiness and joy but also in every suffering’: Polish Priests and Religious During World War II;” in Buffalo, NY, on Aug. 11, and presented the paper, “Nazi Agronomy and Polish Priests at Dachau,” at EASR [European Association for the Study of Religion], University of Gothenburg; in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Aug. 21.
