Leo Franks

PhD Candidate

Jewish


Designated Emphasis in Jewish Studies.

Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory.


Education

M.A. in History. University of California at Berkeley. 2025.

M.Phil. in Modern European History. St Catharine's College. University of Cambridge. 2023.

M.A. (hons) in History. University of Aberdeen. 2022. 


Journal Articles

"Critiquing the Beheading of Britain's First Holocaust Memorial", Sculpture Journal, in press, vol. 35, no. 2 (2026).


Reviews

"International Jewish humanitarianism in the age of the Great War", Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 22, no. 2 (2023), 232–233.


Prizes and Fellowships (selection)

Fellow. Summer School on Jewish Studies. Instituut voor Joodse Studies. Universiteit Antwerpen. (Belgium). 2026.

David Hollinger Prize for Intellectual History. Department of History, University of California at Berkeley. 2026.

Fellow. Eighth London Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilisation. Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, and the Pears Foundation. (London, United Kingdom). 2026.

Max Kade Graduate Fellowship. Department of German, University of California at Berkeley. 2026.

Summer Fellowships. Center for Jewish Studies, University of California at Berkeley. 2024, 2025, and 2026.

University of California Libraries Arts & Humanities Open Access Fund. 2026. [Full cost of Open Access fees for publication of the article “Critiquing the Beheading of Britain’s First Holocaust Memorial” in Sculpture Journal.] 

The Anne and Benjamin Goor Prize in Jewish Studies. Center for Jewish Studies, University of California at Berkeley. 2025.

College Scholarship for the M.Phil. in History. St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. 2022.

Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies. 2022.

Caithness Prize in History. University of Aberdeen. 2022. [For attaining the highest results in the examinations for the History M.A. (honours) degree.]

Forbes Medal in History. University of Aberdeen. 2022. [For having been proven "the most proficient in History subjects."]

Bishop Elphinstone Award. University of Aberdeen. 2021. [For having had the highest grade point average in the third year of the History M.A. (honours) programme.]


Teaching

Graduate Student Instructor. "Liberal Democracy in Europe Since the Seventeenth Century". History 158E. Spring 2026. (Sole GSI).

Reader. "The International Economy of the Twentieth Century". History 160. Autumn 2025.

Graduate Student Instructor. "History of the Holocaust". History 178B. Spring 2025. (Sole GSI).