We owe much to a number of people at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, particularly Robert Ehrenreich, Director of University Programs, and Michael Haley Goldman, Director of Global Classroom and Evaluation. Center staff facilitated our meetings at the Museum–starting with the 2007 summer research workshop that brought us together for the first time–and they provided data and critical feedback and made us feel welcome. Vital funding for this project was provided by National Science Foundation Award nos. 0820487 and 0820501. At NSF, we thank in particular program officers Tom Baerwald and Antoinette Winklerprins for their patient assistance and for their support for an unusual interdisciplinary project that stretched the bounds of GIScience.
Each of us has benefited from the support of our home institutions in various ways since we began working together. We would like to thank especially the Geography Department at Texas State University, in particular Phil Suckling, Chair of the department (2005–2013), for his strong support, and Jessica Schneider, who administered the NSF grant. At Middlebury College, Franci Farnsworth helped Anne navigate federal funding, and department coordinators Ann McLean and Susan Perkins made things run smoothly. Our work has also been supported by individual research and travel grants from Texas State University; Middlebury College; DePaul University College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences; Victoria University, Wellington; and the University of Bristol. Funding for publishing in full color was generously provided by the Stanford Spatial History Lab; the Department of Geography at Texas State University; and Middlebury College. Funding for the index and cover design was provided by the DePaul University Research Council.
Scholars at the annual conferences of Lessons and Legacies, the Social Science History Association, the Association of American Geographers, and the American Historical Association have offered extremely helpful comments and criticisms on our work as it developed. Each of our projects benefited as well from responses to our presentations at various universities and other institutions. Our students contributed to this project by honing our thinking about what it means to study the geographies of the Holocaust and how we can most effectively convey what we have learned in this project. Thanks to all the staff at Indiana University Press, particularly project manager Darja Malcolm-Clarke, copy editor Annette Wenda, designer Jamison Cockerham, Assistant Sponsoring Editor Jenna Lynn Whittaker, and Editor-in-Chief Robert Sloan. We also thank the two anonymous reviewers for Indiana University Press for their critiques.
Finally, we thank our partners, spouses, children, and all the friends who have shared our excitement and endured our absence while this project was taking shape. Scholarship is never a solitary venture; it can’t be done without the love and support of those who know us best. To all of them, our deepest thanks.