Thesis and Dissertation Advisors -
Genocide-Holocaust Studies
DR. S. C. BENEDICT, DSN, FAAN
Dr. Benedict has been a professor of nursing for over 25 years. She was a Fulbright Scholar to the University of Iceland and a Visiting Professor at the University of Botswana. She has taught research methods courses at the master’s degree and PhD level at Columbia University [New York], the University of Alabama [Huntsville], the University of Iceland, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the University of Botswana [Africa] and has served as chairperson or member of over 30 thesis and dissertation committees at universities in the US, Scotland, and the Republic of South Africa.
Dr. Benedict’s research has been funded by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Nursing Research of the US National Institutes of Health, the Greenwall Foundation, and the University of Botswana. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Medical Ethics and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC and has done numerous scholarly presentations in the US, Europe, Africa, and Israel.
Dr. Benedict’s experience has involved extensive guidance of graduate students and includes written critiques of more than 400 research proposals. She has worked with numerous students to delineate research problems, select appropriate research designs and sampling plans, and organize the findings into implications and conclusions. Although the majority of her work has been with graduate students in nursing, she has also worked with doctoral students in health policy, public health, history, and education.
In addition to degree completion, Dr. Benedict’s former students in the US, Europe, and Africa have published in peer-reviewed journals and have made presentations at national and international conferences. Dr. Benedict has guided many of these efforts.
Selected articles:
An ethics of testimony: Prisoner nurses at Auschwitz
Duty and "euthanasia": The nurses of Meseritz--Obrawalde
Maria Stromberger: A nurse in the resistance in Auschwitz
Nurses and the sterilization experiments of Auschwitz: A postmodernist perspective
