Elena is a 5th year PhD student. She has been awarded a 2022-23 Foreign Language and Areas Studies Fellowship. She has also been awarded an 2022-2027 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and was a 2022 Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation Fellow. She was the 2021 Summer Graduate Student Research Fellow in residence at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

She is also affiliated with the following centers on campus:
Affiliated Graduate Student, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Affiliated Graduate Student, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Affiliated Graduate Student, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley
Affiliated Graduate Student, Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, part of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley

Fellowships and Grants
2023 UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies Summer Grant
2023 UC Berkeley Connect Fellowship *(Declined)*
2023 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship – Academic Year – Polish *(Declined)*
2023 Fritz Thyssen Pre-Dissertation Fellowship – German Historical Institute
2023 Fellowship - Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization at Northwestern
2022-23 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship – Academic Year – German
2022-23 UC Berkeley Jewish Studies Fellowship – Academic Year
2022 Summer Foreign Language and Areas Studies Travel Grant
2022 Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant – German
2022-27 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2022 UC Berkeley Jewish Studies Summer Grant
2022 Institute of International Studies Pre-Dissertation Grant
2022 Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship Program
2022 UC Berkeley Center for Right Wing Studies Mini-Grant
2021 UC Berkeley Jewish Studies Summer Grant
2021 US Holocaust Memorial Museum – 2021 Summer Graduate Research Fellowship
2021 UC Berkeley Department of Sociology Summer Research Grant
2021 UC Berkeley - Path to the Professoriate Award
2021-24 UC Berkeley Jewish Studies Program Fellowship
2020-24 UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship for Graduate Study