Rebecca Donner was a 2023-24 Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and a 2023 Visiting Scholar at Oxford. In 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. In recognition of her contribution to international historical scholarship, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 
Donner’s third book is the New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, a fusion of biography, espionage thriller, and scholarly detective story about her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, an American graduate student who became a leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany during Hitler’s regime. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, and the Chautauqua Prize.  
During her fellowship at the Dora Maar House, Rebecca Donner will work on a genre-defying biography of Sophie Scholl, forthcoming from Random House.