Laura Hilton

Laura Hilton is a Professor of History at Muskingum University, where she has taught since Fall 2001. She completed her PhD in Modern European History in 2001 from The Ohio State University. She has published on Jewish, Latvian, and Polish Displaced Persons, the black market in postwar Germany, and stateless persons in postwar Europe. She has been a Teaching Fellow at the USHMM twice (January 2002; June 2009) and a Research Fellow at summer research workshops three times (2003, 2005, & 2013). In 2016, she was a Fellow at the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University’s (HEFNU) 21st Annual Summer Institute for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization. She is a member of HEFNU's Virtual Speaker's Bureau. In 2008, she received the William Oxley Thompson Award for excellence in Teaching from Muskingum University. She recently published a chapter on rumors and food in Food, Culture and Identity in Germany's Century of War and an article in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, "Who Was ‘Worthy’? How Empathy Drove Policy Decisions about the Uprooted in Occupied Germany, 1945–1948," Volume 32, Issue 1, 2018: 8-28. She is currently writing a book-length examination of the culture of rumors in postwar Germany.