Bella Wallace
European and Holocaust Memory Historian
Speaking to the Vice Provost about the Holocaust Studies Minor at the March 2026 MTSU Board of Trustees Meeting
Bella Wallace is an undergraduate history student at Middle Tennessee State University, specialized in European and Holocaust memory studies. Her research consists of feminist Holocaust memory, Polish political victims, and how Holocaust memory is interpreted today.
Through Middle Tennessee State University, she has participated in multiple study abroad programs focused on resistance movements and the psychological forces that shaped the 20th century, conducting research in Vienna, Prague, and Berlin.
She currently works as a historian at Belle Meade Historic Site and Winery, researching and interpreting the property, the resident family, the lives of the enslaved individuals, and the paid contract laborers throughout the nineteenth century.