580 scholars have signed this Open Letter. (3 July 2019, 12:00pm)

We have stopped collecting signatures at this time.

To:

Sara Bloomfield, Director, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Andrew Hollinger, Director of Communications, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Dr. Lisa Leff, Director, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Dr. Peter Hayes, Chair, Academic Committee, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

We were just informed that Dr. Hayes stepped down as Chair of the Academic Committee on 30 May 2019.

CORRECTION: Dr. Wendy Lower, Chair, Academic Committee, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

1 July 2019

Dear Directors Bloomfield, Hollinger, Leff and Chair Lower:

We are scholars who strongly support the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Many of us write on the Holocaust and genocide; we have researched in the USHMM’s library and archives or served as fellows or associated scholars; we have been grateful for the Museum’s support and intellectual community. Many of us teach the Holocaust at our universities, and have drawn on the Museum’s online resources. We support the Museum’s programs from workshops to education.

We are deeply concerned about the Museum’s recent “Statement Regarding the Museum’s Position on Holocaust Analogies." We write this public letter to urge its retraction.

Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences rely on careful and responsible analysis, contextualization, comparison and argumentation to answer questions about the past and the present. By “unequivocally rejecting efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary,” the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is taking a radical position that is far removed from mainstream scholarship on the Holocaust and genocide. And it makes learning from the past almost impossible.

The Museum’s decision to completely reject drawing any possible analogies to the Holocaust, or to the events leading up to it, is fundamentally ahistorical. It has the potential to inflict severe damage on the Museum’s ability to continue its role as a credible, leading global institution dedicated to Holocaust memory, Holocaust education, and research in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies. The very core of Holocaust education is to alert the public to dangerous developments that facilitate human rights violations and pain and suffering; pointing to similarities across time and space is essential for this task.

Looking beyond the academic context, we are well aware of the many distortions and inaccuracies, intentional or not, that frame contemporary discussions of the Holocaust. We are not only scholars. We are global citizens who participate in public discourse, as does the Museum as an institution, and its staff.  We therefore consider it essential that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum reverse its position on careful historical analysis and comparison.  We hope the Museum continues to help scholars establish the Holocaust’s significance as an event from which the world must continue to learn.

Signatories

* First signatories marked with an asterisk

 

 

David Abraham, Professor, University of Miami, School of Law

 

Deborah Achtenberg, Professor of Philosophy, Faculty Associate in Gender, Race, Identity, University of Nevada, Reno

 

James R. Adair, Ph.D., Lecturer in Humanities and Religious Studies, The University of Texas at San Antonio

 

Hugh LeCaine Agnew, Professor of History and International Affairs, The Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

 

Carlos Aguirre, Professor of History, University of Oregon

 

Michal Aharony, Editor, The Journal of Holocaust Research, Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education, University of Haifa, Israel; Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance Fellowship, the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, 2007-2008

 

Avril Alba, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation, University of Sydney, Australia

 

Ángel Alcalde, Ph.D., Lecturer in History, University of Melbourne, Australia

 

Natalia Aleksiun, Professor of Modern Jewish History, Touro College

 

Kimberly Allar, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of History, Co-Director, Online World War II Studies, School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies, Arizona State University

 

Barbara Allen, Associate Professor of History, La Salle University; Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar participant

 

Benjamin L. Alpers, Associate Professor, Honors College, University of Oklahoma

 

Andrew Altman, Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University

 

Claire Andrieu, Professor of Contemporary History, former editor- in-chief of Mass Violence & Resistance, Sciences Po, Paris, France

 

Emily Abrams Ansari, Associate Professor of Music History, Western University, Canada

 

Tarik Cyril Amar, Koç University, Turkey;, Former Fellow

 

Dora Apel, Professor and W. Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Wayne State University, UK

 

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law, NYU

 

Rachel Applebaum, Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University

 

Celia Applegate, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

 

Karen Auerbach, Associate Professor of History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Leora Auslander, Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization in the College and Professor of Modern European Social History in the History Department, The University of Chicago; seminar participant at USHMM 2018

 

Akil N. Awan, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Political Violence & Terrorism, Royal Holloway, University of London

 

Albena Azmanova, Professor of Politics, University of Kent, UK

 

Jonathan Bach, Professor of Global Studies, The New School

 

Mark Baker, Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Australia

 

Monique Rodrigues Balbuena, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon; CAHS 2010 Summer Research Fellow, 2014 Jack and Anita Hess Fellow, 2019 The Curt C. and Else Silberman Fellow

 

Shelley Baranowski, Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, University of Akron

 

Ben Barkow, Director The Wiener Library, London, UK

 

Lawrence Baron, Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University; gave a lecture at the USHMM

 

Deborah Barton, University of Montreal, Canada

 

Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Professor of German Studies, Brown University; J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship 2012-13

 

Paul R. Bartrop, Professor of History/Director, Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, Florida Gulf Coast University

 

Rachel N. Baum, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

 

Michael Beckerman, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music, New York University

 

Jonathan Beecher Field, Associate Professor of English, Clemson University

 

Jan Claas Behrends, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam; Lecturer in East European History, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany

 

Cristina A. Bejan, Duke University; USHMM Yetta and Jacob Gelman Fellow 2009

 

Natalie Belsky, Assistant Professor of History, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Former Sosland Fellow & Hess Seminar Participant 2018

 

Elissa Bemporad, Associate Professor of East European Jewish History and the Holocaust, Queens College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York; former Fellow

Mara Benjamin, Irene Kaplan Leiwant Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Mount Holyoke College

Waitman Wade Beorn, Ph.D., Lecturer, Corcoran Department Of History, University of Virginia

Christine Beresniova, Executive Director, South Carolina Council on the Holocaust, Instructor of Anthropology, Ashford University; U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow (2012), Takiff Foundation Fellow, The Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (2014), Levine Institute staff (2016-2018).

Nancy Berg, Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Washington University in St. Louis

 

Doris Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

 

James Berger, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English, Yale University

 

Michael Berghoef, Professor of Social Work, Ferris State University

 

Max Bergholz, Associate Professor of History, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

 

Teresa Bergman, Professor of Communication, University of the Pacific

 

Joel Berkowitz, Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature and Director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

 

Lila Corwin Berman, Professor of History, Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History and Director of the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, Temple University

 

Nathaniel Berman, Rahel Varnhagen Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University

 

Olga Bertelsen, Assistant Professor of Intelligence Studies, Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence

 

Svenja Bethke, Ph.D., Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Leicester, UK; 2019-2021 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

 

* David Biale, Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis

 

Frank Biess, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

 

Monica Black, Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

David Blackbourn, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair and Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

 

Adam A. Blackler, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wyoming; Dorot Foundation Scholar (2008) and Jack & Anita Hess Faculty Seminar participant (2019)

 

Muriel Blaive, Ústav pro studium totalitních režimu/Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague, Czech Republic

 

Daniel Blatman, The Max and Rita Haber professor in Contemporary Jewry and Holocaust Studies, Head of The Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

 

Benita Blessing, Ph.D., Instructor, World Languages and Cultures, Oregon State University

 

Donald Bloxham, Professor of Modern History, University of Edinburgh, UK

 

Jeffrey Blutinger, Barbara and Ray Alpert Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, California State University Long Beach

 

Paul Boghossian, Silver Professor of Philosophy, New York University

 

Andrea F. Bohlman, Associate Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Melissa Bokovoy, Chair and Professor, Department of History, University of New Mexico; Co-organizer with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, of “(Un)Silencing the Past: Narratives of Trauma in Comparative Perspective” 2013

 

Alan Brill, Cooperman/Ross Endowed Professor in honor of Sister Rose Thering, Seton Hall University

 

Tobias Brinkmann, Malvin and Lea Bank Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Penn State University

 

James M. Brophy, Professor of History, University of Delaware

 

Martin D. Brown, Lead Researcher, Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia

 

Timothy Scott Brown, Professor and Chair of History, Northeastern University

 

Julia Brüggemann, Professor of History, DePauw University

 

Diana Kormos Buchwald, Robert M. Abbey Professor of History, General Editor & Director, The Einstein Papers Project, California Institute of Technology

 

Maria Bucur, John V Hill Professor of History and Gender Studies, Indiana University Bloomington; former Faculty Seminar Fellow at USHMM

 

Darcy Buerkle, Associate Professor, Department of History, Smith College

 

Peter Bugge, Associate Professor of Central European Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark

 

Melissa K. Byrnes, Associate Professor and Chair of History, Southwestern University

 

Joy H. Calico, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Musicology, Vanderbilt University

 

Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, Associate Professor of Contemporary History, University of Calabria, Italy; contributor to the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos of USHMM

 

Karen D. Caplan, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University, Newark

 

Holly Case, Associate Professor of History, Brown University; Former Fellow

 

Michael Casper, University of California, Los Angeles; former Mandel Center Research Fellow

 

Jonathon Catlin, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University; USHMM Workshop Participant, “The Holocaust in the Soviet Union”

 

Vitaly Chernetsky, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Director of the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas

 

Mita Choudhury, Professor of History, Vassar College

 

Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, Associate Professor of Modern Polish-Jewish History, Arizona State University

 

Samantha Clarke, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, McMaster University, Canada

 

Shelly M. Cline, Kansas City Art Institute

 

Shawn Clybor, History Teacher, Dwight-Englewood School; participant at the 2013 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar, Teaching about the Holocaust: History, Memory, and Memorialization

 

Brigid Cohen, Associate Professor of Music, New York University

 

Danny M. Cohen, Distinguished Professor of Instruction, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

 

Mark B. Cole, Ph.D., College Associate Lecturer, Cleveland State University, Board Member of the Ohio Council on Holocaust and Genocide Education; USHMM Silberman Fellow

 

Tim Cole, Professor of Social History and Director of the Brigstow Institute, University of Bristol, UK; Resnick Fellow 1999-2000; Co-Instructor of Hess Seminar on Holocaust Geographies 2015

 

Alon Confino, Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

N. D. B. Connolly, Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

 

Manuela Consonni, Professor, Pela And Adam Starkopf Chair in Holocaust Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

 

Jazmine Contreras, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota

 

Seth Cotlar, Professor of History, Willamette University

 

Stef Craps, Professor of English Literature, Director, Cultural Memory Studies Initiative, Ghent University, Belgium

 

Brian Crim, Associate Professor of History, John M. Turner Chair in the Humanities Lynchburg University

 

Martina Cucchiara, Associate Professor of History, Bluffton University

 

Sarah Cushman, Northwestern University

 

Mikkel Dack, Professor of History, Director of Research, Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Rowan University

 

Peter Davies, Professor of Modern German Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK

 

Valerie Deacon, Clinical Assistant Professor of History, New York University Shanghai

 

Rachel Deblinger, Director of Documenting Global Voices Project, University of California, Los Angeles; USHMM Fellow 2011, Silberman Seminar Co-Leader 2017

 

Andrew Dell'Antonio, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Musicology, The University of Texas at Austin

 

Scott Denham, Charles A. Dana Professor of German Studies, E. Craig Wall, Jr. Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities, Davidson College

 

Andrew Denning, Associate Professor of History, University of Kansas        

 

David Brandon Dennis, Associate Professor of History, Dean College

 

Christoph Dieckmann, Research Fellow, University of Bern, Switzerland/ Germany

 

Hasia Diner, Professor of History and of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University

 

Skye Doney, Director of the George L. Mosse Program in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Alexandra van Doren, Ph.D., Department of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Law Student, Immigration and Human Rights; University of Michigan School of Law

 

Daniella Doron, Senior Lecturer in Jewish History, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Australia

 

Thomas L. Doughton, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, College of the Holy Cross

 

Jennifer Dowling, Ph.D., University of Sydney, Australia

 

Lawrence Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst College; former Ina Levine Senior Invitational Scholar, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

 

Theodora Dragostinova, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University

 

Elizabeth Drummond, Associate Professor and Chair of History, Loyola Marymount University

 

Diana Dumitru, Associate Professor of History, Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University, Moldova

 

Deborah Dwork, Founding Director Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University; Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence, USHMM, 2017-2018

 

Hilary Earl, Professor of HIstory, Nipissing University

 

Astrid M. Eckert, Associate Professor of History, Emory University

 

M. Kathryn Edwards, Assistant Professor of History, Tulane University

 

Rachel L. Einwohner, Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) Political Science, Purdue University

 

Dan Ellin, Archivist, International Bomber Command Centre, University of Lincoln, UK

 

Jane Ellsworth, Professor of Music History, Eastern Washington University

 

Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies Emeritus, Pacific Lutheran University

 

Andrea Erkenbrecher, Ph.D., Freelance Historian, Karlsruhe, Germany

 

Jennifer Evans, Professor of History, Carleton University

 

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Professor of Comparative Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

 

Erica Fagen, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

Linda E. Feldman, Associate Professor of German (retired), University of Windsor, Canada

 

Brian K. Feltman, Associate Professor of History, Georgia Southern University

 

Heather Ferguson, Associate Professor of Middle East/Ottoman History, Claremont McKenna College

 

Kate Ferguson, Chair of Policy, European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Leeds, UK; Co-Executive Director, Protection Approaches

 

Scott Ferguson, Associate Professor of Humanities & Cultural Studies, University of South Florida

 

Jonathan Beecher Field, Associate Professor of English, Clemson University

 

Gabriel Finder, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies, University of Virginia; Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship 2000–2001

 

* Eugene Finkel, Associate Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

 

Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Professor of International History, Flinders University, Australia

 

Monika Flaschka, Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer, Georgia State University

 

Sam Fleischacker, Professor of Philosophy, Director of Religious Studies and of Jewish Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Tiffany N. Florvil, Assistant Professor of History, University of New Mexico

 

Darcie Fontaine, Associate Professor of History, University of South Florida

 

Jennifer L. Foray, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University

 

Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Professor of Music, Ohio State University

 

Russell Arben Fox, Professor of Political Science, Friends University  

 

Richard E. Frankel, Richard G. Neiheisel Professor in European History, University of Louisiana,  Lafayette

 

Michal Frankl, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; USHMM Fellow 2015-16

 

David M. P. Freund, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park

 

Judith Friedlander, Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, Hunter College, The City University of New York

 

Jonathan Friedman, Professor and Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, West Chester University

 

Joshua B. Friedman, Perilman Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University

 

Kathie Friedman, Associate Professor of International Studies, Jackson School, University of Washington

 

Benjamin Frommer, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University

 

Mary Fulbrook, Professor of German History, University College London (UCL), UK

 

Alison Furlong, American Religious Sounds Project

 

Sheer Ganor, Visiting Fellow in the History of Migration, German Historical Institute West

 

Alexandra Garbarini, Professor of History, Williams College

 

Luis-Manuel Garcia, Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Popular Music Studies and Ethnomusicology, University of Birmingham, UK

 

Paul Garfinkel, Associate Professor of History, Simon Fraser University, Canada

 

Libby Garland, Associate Professor of History, Kingsborough Community College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

 

Leah Garrett, Professor and Director of Jewish Studies, Hunter College, The City University of New York

 

Edyta Gawron, Assistant Professor, Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

 

Lily Geismer, Associate Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College

 

Christian Gerlach, Professor of Modern History, University of Bern, Switzerland

 

Judith Gerson, Associate Professor, Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University; Life Reborn Fellow, 2005--2006; Ina Levine Invitational Scholar, 2017 - 2018; Silberman Seminar Co-convener, 2019

 

Simone Gigliotti, Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

 

Idit Gil, Academic director of Democracy Studies, M.A Program, the Open University, Israel; former Fellow at USHMM

 

Catherine Gilbert, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, Cultural Memory Studies Initiative, Ghent University, Belgium

 

Shirli Gilbert, University of Southampton, UK; USHMM Fellow 2005

 

Glenda E. Gilmore, Peter V. and C Vann Woodward Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University

Amelia Glaser, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego

 

Dorota Glowacka, University of King’s College, Canada; former Fellow and Silberman Seminar co-leader

 

Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

 

Randall Goldberg, Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of the Dana School of Music, Youngstown State University

 

Janet Golden, Professor Emerita, Rutgers University-Camden

 

David A. Goldfarb, Ph.D., Independent Scholar, formerly Barnard College, New York; cooperated with USHMM as Curator of Literature and Humanities at the Polish Cultural Institute New York

 

Julien Gorbach, Assistant Professor in the School of Communications, University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

Peter E. Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University

 

L. Janelle Gornick, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Virginia Military Institute; Participant in 2019 Silberman Faculty Seminar on Forced Migration

 

Boris B. Gorshkov, Ph.D., Lecturer in History, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

 

Jan Grabowski, Professor of History, University of Ottawa; 2016 Ina Levine Invitational Scholar

 

Ronald Granieri, Ph.D., Army War College

 

William Glenn Gray, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University

 

Walter D. Greason, Dean Emeritus, The Honors School; Chair and Associate Professor, Educational Counseling and Leadership, Monmouth University

 

Emily Greble, Associate Professor of History and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University; Diane and Howard Wohl Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, 2010

 

Judith Greenberg, Adjunct Faculty, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University

 

Julie Greene, Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park

 

Henry Greenspan, Emeritus, University of Michigan; USHMM Weinmann Lecturer (2000) and co-leader (with Wendy Lower) of the Hess Seminar for Professors of Holocaust Courses (2011)

 

Neil Gregor, Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton, UK

 

Gary D. Grossman, Professor of Animal Ecology, University of Georgia; Schusterman Fellow, JNF Fellow

 

Atina Grossmann, Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cooper Union,  New York City; Diane and Howard Wohl Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, 2012; Co-Instructor, Silberman Seminar 2012

 

Amanda F. Grzyb, Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies, Western University

 

Liora Gubkin, Professor of Religious Studies, Director Institute for Religion, Education, and Public Policy, California State University, Bakersfield; Silberman Seminar 2009, Silberman Grant Recipient 2010, PERH Seminar 2019

 

Debra Guckenheimer, Ph.D., Lecturer, Sociology and Human Development, California State University, East Bay

 

Edin Hajdarpasic, Associate Professor of Modern European History, Loyola University Chicago

 

* Anna Hajkova, Associate Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK, Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellow 2010

 

Sara Halpern, Ph.D. Candidate, The Ohio State University; former intern (2005. 2006, 2011-12) and Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellow

 

Nancy Harrowitz, Professor of Italian and Jewish Studies, Director of the Minor in Holocaust, Genocide and Human Right Studies, Boston University

 

Cynthia Haynes, Director of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design Ph.D. Program, Professor of English, Clemson University; Conducted research at USHMM Library

 

Valerie Hebert, Associate Professor, Lakehead University Orillia, Canada; former MCAHS Fellow, Hess Participant, MCAHS Workshop Participant, MCAHS Workshop Leader

 

Susanne Heim, Ph.D., PD, University of Freiburg, Germany; Former Fellow at MCAHS

 

Elizabeth Heineman, Professor of History and of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa

 

Daniel Kupfert Heller, Kronhill Senior Lecturer in East European Jewish History, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Australia

 

David Helps, Ph.D. Student, Department of History, University of Michigan; Contributor to USHMM “Experiencing History”

 

Burkhard Henke, Professor of German, Davidson College

 

David Henkin, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

 

Laura Herron, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Oberlin College

 

Deborah Hertz, Professor of History, Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies, University of California, San Diego

 

Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College

 

Benjamin Hett, Professor of History, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

 

Jim Hicks, Ph.D., Executive Editor, The Massachusetts Review, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

Steven High, Professor of History, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

 

Faith Hillis, Associate Professor of Russian History, The University of Chicago

 

Susanne Hillman, Ph.D., Lecturer, San Diego State University and University of California, San Diego

 

Laura J. Hilton, Professor of History, Muskingum University

 

Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor and Graduate Director, Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, Director, Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University

 

Erin Hochman, Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University; Participant in the 2011 Hess Faculty Seminar at the USHMM

 

Tobias Hof, Ph.D., PD, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

 

Janine Holc, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Loyola University Maryland; former Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellow, 2016

 

Sandie Holguín, Professor of History, The University of Oklahoma

 

Anna Holian, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University

 

Alana Holland, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Kansas; Dissertation and Thesis Development Workshop participant: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union

 

Lynn Holly, Author, Architect; the father of my children was born in Bergen-Belsen

 

Hannah Holtschneider, Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK; Gave seminar at USHMM

 

Claire M. Hubbard-Hall, Senior Lecturer in History, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK

 

Anne P. Hubbell, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, New Mexico State University

 

Erika Hughes, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Performance, University of Portsmouth, UK; former Leon Milman Memorial Fellow and Hess Faculty Seminar Fellow

 

Judith M. Hughes, Professor Emerita of History, University of California, San Diego

 

Alexandra Hui, Associate Professor of History, Mississippi State University

 

Samuel Clowes Huneke, Assistant Professor of History, George Mason University

 

Tera W. Hunter, Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University

 

Jennifer Hurst-Wender, Director of Museum Operations and Education, Preservation Virginia

 

Samara Hutman, Former Executive Director, Los Angeles Museum of The Holocaust, 2013-2016

 

Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

 

Natalia Indrimi, Centro Primo Levi New York

 

Christian Ingrao, Senior Researcher, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent, CNRS/ Université Paris 8

 

Steven Leonard Jacobs, Professor of Religious Studies & Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies, University of Alabama

 

Paul Jaskot, Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University

 

* Tomaz Jardim, Associate Professor of History, Ryerson University, Canada; former Diane and Howard Wohl Fellow, CAHS, 2008, and Laurie and Andy Okun Fellow, CAHS, 2010

 

Joseph E. Jensen, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University

 

Steven Jobbitt, Associate Professor of History, Lakehead University

 

Richard Ivan Jobs, Professor of History, Pacific University

 

Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University

 

Alison Frank Johnson, Professor of History and of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

 

Jason Johnson, Associate Professor of History, Trinity University

 

Nicholas K. Johnson, Deputy Head, Center for German-American Educational History, University of Münster, Germany

Timothy Scott Johnson, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi

 

Adam Jones, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada

 

Benjamin T. Jones, Lecturer in History, Central Queensland University, Australia

 

Ari Joskowicz, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, European Studies, and History, Vanderbilt University; Diane and Howard Wohl Fellow at Mandel Center for Advanded Holocaust Studies, 2013–2014

 

Steffen Jost, Head of Education Department, Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Germany

 

Jonathan Judaken, Spence L. Wilson Chair in the Humanities, Rhodes College

 

Robin Judd, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University

 

Pieter M. Judson, Professor of 19th and 20th Century History, European University Institute, Florence

 

Kathryn Julian, Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer in History, Maryville College

 

Irene Kacandes, The Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College; Mandel Center Fellow Fall 2017

 

Carroll P. Kakel, III, Ph.D., Lecturer, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Advanced Academic Programs, Johns Hopkins University

 

Martin Kalb, Assistant Professor of History, Bridgewater College

 

Brett Kaplan, Professor of Literature, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; former Fellow 2009-10

 

Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University; J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar in Residence, 2014.

 

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Leon Levine Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, Appalachian State University

 

Alexander Karn, Associate Professor of History, Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, Colgate University

 

Rabbi Henry Jay Karp, Adjunct Professor of Theology, St. Ambrose University

 

Olga Kartashova, Ph.D. Candidate, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University

 

Samuel Kassow, Northam Professor of History, Trinity College

 

Anthony D. Kauders, Professor of Modern History, Keele University, United Kingdom

 

Martin Kavka, Professor, Department of Religion, Florida University

 

Ari Kelman, Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History, University of California, Davis

 

Michelle Kelso, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, The George Washington University; former fellow 2009

 

Padraic Kenney, Professor of History and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

 

Audrey Kichelewski, Associate Professor of Contemporary History, Strasbourg University, France; attended summer workshop at USHMM in 2005

 

Ben Kiernan, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Yale University

 

Charles King, Professor of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University

 

Lisa Kirschenbaum, Professor of History, West Chester University

 

Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University

 

Irena Klepfisz, retired, Barnard College, New York

 

Sarah Knott, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington

 

Adam Knowles, Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy, Drexel University

 

Anne Knowles, McBride Professor of History, University of Maine

 

Roy G. Koepp, Assistant Professor of Modern European History, Eastern New Mexico University

 

Ari Kohen, Associate Professor of Political Science and Schlesinger Professor of Social Justice in the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

Yuliya Komska, Associate Professor of German Studies, Dartmouth College

 

Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine

 

Alexander Korb, Associate Professor in Modern European History, University of Leicester, UK

 

Jacques Kornberg, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada; USHMM Seminar participant

 

Melissa Kravetz, Associate Professor of History, Longwood University; Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar Participant 2017 and Dorot Graduate Student Fellow 2004

 

Barbara Krawcowicz, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Judaic Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

 

Leslie Kriebel, Ph.D., Social Science Lecturer, Boston University

 

Kevin M. Kruse, Professor of History, Princeton University

 

Lukasz Krzyzanowski, Assistant Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

 

Hana Kubatova, Assistant Professor, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic; Charles H. Revson Fellow (2008–9), co-organizer of the 2012 International Summer Research Workshop on Holocaust Memory

 

Emma Kuby, Assistant Professor of History, Northern Illinois University

 

Thomas Kühne, Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University

 

Regina Kunzel, Doris Stevens Chair and Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University

 

Jacob Ari Labendz, Clayman Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies, Youngstown State University

 

Dominick LaCapra, Professor Emeritus of History and Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University

 

Richard Lachmann, Professor of Sociology, The State University of New York, Albany

 

Elizabeth Harrington Lambert, Grand Valley State University; former Fellow 2006

 

Melinda Landeck, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Austin College

 

J. Shawn Landres, Senior Fellow, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles; former Fellow, Sigi Ziering Institute Exploring the Ethical & Religious Implications of the Holocaust, University of Judaism (now American Jewish University)

 

Barry Langford, Professor of Film Studies and Member, Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

 

Neringa Latvyte-Gustaitiene, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University, Lithuania

 

Claire Launchbury, Associate Researcher, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds, UK

 

Tom Lawson, Professor of History and Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, UK

 

Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor of History, Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values, Lehigh University

 

Kenneth F. Ledford, Associate Professor of History and Law, Case Western Reserve University, Chair, Department of History, Co-Director, Max Kade Center for German Studies

 

Daniel Lee, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, Department of History, University of Sheffield, UK; Ben and Zelda Cohen Visiting Fellow 2014–2015

 

Laurel Leff, Associate Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University

 

Lori Lefkovitz, Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies, Northeastern University

 

Carole Lemee, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Université Bordeaux, France

 

Brigitte Le Normand, Associate Professor of History, University of British Columbia, Okanagan; Humboldt Fellow

 

Paul Lerner, Professor of History and Director, Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, University of Southern California, recent participant in Silberman Seminar on Forced Migration (June 2019)

 

Mark Leuchter, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism, Director of Jewish Studies - Department of Religion, Temple University

 

Neil Levi, Professor and Chair of English, Drew University

 

Eve Levin, Ahmanson-Murphy Professor of History, University of Kansas

 

Paul A. Levine, Independent scholar, Berlin; formerly Research & Education Director, co-founder, The Uppsala University Programme for Holocaust & Genocide Research, Sweden

 

Laura Levitt, Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies and Gender, Temple University

 

Beth Lew-Williams, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University

 

Laura S. Lieber, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Jewish Studies, Duke University

 

Caroline Light, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University

 

Anna Lind-Guzik, Judith S. Kaye Fellow, Historical Society of the New York Courts, Bard High School Early College, New York

 

Thomas Lindenberger, Professor for Totalitarianism Studies, Hannah Arendt Institute at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

 

Tabea Linhard, Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and International and Area Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

 

Marcia Sachs Littell, Professor Emeritus, Stockton University; Founding Director of MA program in Holocaust & Genocide Studies

 

Francis Lowenthal, (Honorary) Professor of Cognitive Sciences, University of Mons, Belgium

 

Miriam R. Lowi, Professor, Middle East Politics, Department of Political Science, The College of New Jersey

 

David Luebke, Professor of History, University of Oregon

 

* Aliza Luft, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Stephen Macekura, Associate Professor, Department of International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

 

John MacKay, Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies, Yale University

 

James Maffie, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

 

Daniel H. Magilow, Professor of German, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; 2005-2006 Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Thomas Maher, Ph.D., Lecturer, Purdue University

 

Elissa Mailänder, Associate Professor of Gender History, History of Violence and Sexuality, Sciences Po Paris; former Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (2006)

 

Anastasia Mann, Lecturer in Public and International and Affairs, Princeton University

 

Barbara Mann, Chana Kekst Professor of Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York

 

Kate Manne, Associate Professor at the Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University

 

Lisa Marcus, Professor of English, Chair, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program, Pacific Lutheran University; Holocaust Education Foundation Fellow, 2014

 

Judy Margles, Director, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

 

Deborah J. Margolis, Middle East Studies Librarian, Area Studies Coordinator, Michigan State University; Host of USHMM History Unfolded Research Sprints

 

Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

 

David Marshall, Professor of History, Suffolk County Community College

 

Jill Massino, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

Janice Matsumura, Associate Professor of History, Simon Fraser University, Canada

 

Christopher E. Mauriello, Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Professor of History, Salem State University; Hess Faculty Seminar, 2012

 

James McAuley, Ph.D., University of Oxford; USHMM Writing Fellow 2015-2016

 

* Jared McBride, Ph.D., History Department Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles; Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellow 2015-16

 

Anthony McElligott, MRIA, Professor of History, University of Limerick, Ireland

 

* Erin McGlothlin, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Washington University in St. Louis; Visiting Scholar, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (2006); Co-instructor, Hess Seminar for University Faculty Holocaust Literature: Teaching Fiction and Poetry at the Mandel Center (2014); Co-convener, Research Workshop Literary Responses to Genocide in the Post-Holocaust Era at the Mandel Center (2014); Participant, Yiddish Reading Course at Indiana University, sponsored by the Mandel Center (2008); Participant, Silberman Seminar for University Faculty Literature and the Holocaust at the Mandel Center (2003)  

 

John McNeill, Professor of History and University Professor, Georgetown University

 

Frank Mecklenburg, Director of Research, Leo Baeck Institute, New York

 

Johanna Mellis, Assistant Professor of World History, Ursinus College

 

Robert Melson, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University

 

Margaret Eleanor Menninger, Associate Professor of History, Texas State University

 

David A. Meola, Bert & Fanny Meisler Assistant Professor of History and Director of the USA Jewish & Holocaust Studies Program, University of South Alabama

 

David A. Messenger, Professor and Chair of History, University of South ALabama; USHMM Silberman Seminar 2019, participant in USHMM Hess Seminar 2012

 

Jolanta Mickutė, Professor of History, Vilnius University and The Lost Shtetl Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania; participant of the USHMM Silberman Seminar for Faculty: Gender and the Holocaust

 

John Miller, Technology Librarian, Traverse des Sioux Library Cooperative, Mankato, MN

 

Karen Miller, Professor of History, LaGuardia Community College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

 

Michael D. Miller, Independent Scholar, Author of biographical encyclopedias on the senior perpetrators of the Holocaust, San Francisco

 

Ann Millin, Ph.D., Historian (Retired), Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, USHMM; 2018-2019 Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor, Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center, Stockton University

 

Richard H. Minear, Professor of History (Emeritus), University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

Amanda Minervini, Assistant Professor, Italian Studies, Colorado College

 

Guy Miron, Professor of History, Open University of Israel, Israel

 

Christopher A. Molnar, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan-Flint

 

Laura Morowitz, Professor of Art History, Wagner College, New York

 

Douglas G. Morris, Independent Scholar, Trial Attorney, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc.; Participant in two USHMM seminars

 

Leslie Morris, Professor of German, University of Minnesota

 

Benjamin Moser, Writer

 

Dirk Moses, Professor of Modern History, University of Sydney, Australia

 

Imani Danielle Mosley, Assistant Professor of Music, Wichita State University

 

Michelle Moyd, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington

 

Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History, Yale University

 

Eva Mroczek, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of California, Davis

 

Adam Muller, Professor and Director, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada

 

Alexandru Muraru, Ph.D., Researcher and Lecturer in Political Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania; Fulbright Senior Fellow 2019-2020, New York University; USHMM Tziporah Wiesel Fellow 2010-2011

 

Caitlin Murdock, Professor of History, California State University Long Beach

 

Devin Naar, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of Washington, Weinmann Annual Lecturer (2018); co-organizer, Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust conference (2013)

 

Norman Naimark, Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Stanford University

 

Stephen Naron, Director, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University

 

Benjamin Nathans, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

 

Denisa Nestakova, Research Associate, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia; Herder Institute, Marburg, Germany

 

John Paul Newman, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History, Maynooth University, Ireland

 

Roberta Newman, Director of Digital Initiatives, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York

 

Bernhard Nickel, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

 

Amber N. Nickell, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Purdue University; USHMM WS for Advanced Students on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and USHMM WS “Jewish Experiences and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union”

 

Christian Axboe Nielsen, Associate Professor of History and Human Security, Aarhus University, Denmark

 

Sr. Cyndi Nienhaus, Associate Professor of Religious Education, Marian University; Participant in USHMM Faculty Seminar on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust (2011, 2013) and participant in USHMM Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for Faculty (2015)

 

Carl Nightingale, Professor of Urban and World History, Department of Transnational Studies, University at Buffalo

 

Mary Nolan, Professor of History emerita, New York University

 

Marcy Norton, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

 

Meghan O’Donnell, Senior Lecturer of Political and Social History, California State University, Monterey Bay

 

James W. Oberly, Emeritus Professor of HIstory, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; Project Director, "Budapest Blackout: The Wartime Diaries of Dr. Maria Madi, 1941-1945"

 

Margaret Olin, Senior Research Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, Program in Judaic Studies, Yale University

 

Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Associate Professor, Institute of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków and at the Graduate School of Social Research, Warsaw, Poland

 

Annelise Orleck, Professor of History, Dartmouth College

 

* Andrea Orzoff, Associate Professor of History and Honors, New Mexico State University; participant in Hess Seminar 2011, USHMM; Hess Seminar Follow-Up Scholar, 2012

 

Troy Paddock, Professor of History, Southern Connecticut State University

 

Katrin Paehler, Associate Professor of History, Illinois State University; former Fellow 2001, Silberman Seminar Participant 2012 & 2019

 

Cassandra Painter, Valparaiso University

 

Roxanne Panchasi, Associate Professor of History, Simon Fraser University, Canada

 

Elana Passman, Associate Professor of History, Earlham College

 

Avinoam Patt, Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History, Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, University of Hartford; Miles Lerman Applied Research Scholar for Jewish Life and Culture, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, 2004-2007

 

Andy Pearce, Associate Professor in Holocaust and History Education, University College London, UK

 

Andrew Joseph Pegoda, Ph.D., Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies Program; Department of Comparative Cultural Studies; Department of English, University of Houston

 

Robert Jan van Pelt, University Professor, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada

 

Devin Pendas, Professor of History, Boston College; Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Fellowship at the CAHS, 2007-08; co-organizer of the summer research seminar, “Jews and the Law in Modern Europe: Emancipation, Destruction, Reconstruction,” USHMM, 2011

 

Heather R. Perry, Associate Professor of History; University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

Terrence G. Peterson, Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University

 

Joanne Pettitt, Lecturer in Comparative Literature, University of Kent, UK

 

Toni Pitock, Assistant Professor of History, Co-Director of Judaic Studies Program, Drexel University

 

Anna Veronica Pobbe, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Trento, Italy; IFZ Fellow 2019

 

Emily Richmond Pollock, Associate Professor of Music and Theater Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Keith Pomakoy, Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs, The State University of New York, Sullivan

 

Sara Poulin, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, University of Western Ontario

 

Patrice G. Poutrus, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Universität Erfurt, Germany

 

Renée Poznanski, Head, The Simone Veil Research Centre for Contemporary European Studies, Yaacov and Poria Avnon Professor of Holocaust Studies, Department of Politics and Government (Emerita), Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

 

Stephanie Pridgeon, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Bates College

 

Kim Christian Priemel, Professor of Contemporary European History, University of Oslo, Norway

 

Dan J. Puckett, Chair, Alabama Holocaust Commission, Professor of History, Troy University

 

Trevor A. Purvis, Assistant Professor, Department of Law & Legal Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

 

Anson Rabinbach, Phillip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus, Princeton University

 

Celia E. Rabinowitz, Dean of Mason Library, Keene State College

 

Michaela Raggam-Blesch, Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, Austria

 

Ben Ratskoff, Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Eric Rauchway, Professor of History, University of California, Davis

 

Ian Reifowitz, Professor of Historical Studies, The State University of New York, Empire State College

 

Dominique Kirchner Reill, Associate Professor of Modern European History, University of Miami

 

Richard A. Reiman, Professor of History, South Georgia State College

 

Donald F. Reindl, Assistant Professor of Translation, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia,

 

James Retallack, University Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada

 

Daniel P. Reynolds, Seth Richards Professor in Modern Languages, Grinnell College

 

Jeff Rice, Senior Lecturer, Political Science, Northwestern University

 

Curits Richardson, Research Fellow, Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; former Silberman Fellow

 

Ned Richardson-Little, Nachwuchsgruppenleiter, University of Erfurt, Germany

 

Michael Riff, Ph.D., Director, The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey

 

Jennifer L. Rodgers, Research Assistant Professor of History and Assistant Editor, Einstein Papers Project, Caltech; 2011-2012 Ben and Zelda Cohen International Tracing Service Fellow; Survivor's Registry staff member, 2005-2009

 

Aron Rodrigue, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University, 2003-2004 Ina Levine Senior Scholar in Residence

 

Devorah Romanek, Curator of Exhibits, The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque, NM

 

Sven-Erik Rose, Associate Professor of German and of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis; participant in 2007 Hess Faculty Seminar

 

Katherine Roseau, Assistant Professor of French, Mercer University

 

Mark Roseman, Distinguished Professor of History, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

 

Warren Rosenblum, Professor of History, Politics, and International Relations, Webster University; Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany Fellow for Research in the ITS, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, 2017-2018

 

Neal M. Rosendorf, Associate Professor of International Relations History, New Mexico State University    

 

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Professor of History, Director of Judaic Studies Program, Fairfield University

 

Aviel Roshwald, Professor of History, Georgetown University

 

Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University

 

Michael Rothberg, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Rachel Rothstein, Independent Scholar

 

Nadia Rubaii, Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University

 

Jeff Rutherford, Associate Professor of History, Wheeling Jesuit University

 

Douglas Sackman, University of Puget Sound

 

Emily Sample, Executive Director, Genocide Prevention Program, George Mason University School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution; 2006 Bringing the Lessons Home Student Ambassador

 

Sandrine Sanos, Professor of Modern European History, Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi; 2005 Hess Seminar participant and 2007 Hess Seminar Summer Research Fellow

 

Debarati Sanyal, Professor of French, University of California, Berkeley

 

Derek Sayer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and (by courtesy) History, University of Alberta, Canada

 

Rebecca P. Scales, Associate Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology

 

Allison Schachter, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University

 

Charlotte Schallié, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Victoria, Canada

 

Florian Scheding, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Bristol, UK

 

Christine Schmidt, Ph.D., Deputy Director and Head of Research, The Wiener Library, London, UK; Former USHMM Researcher, Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, vol. I

 

Gina Schouten, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

 

Daniel J. Schroeter, Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History, University of Minnesota; Ina Levine Invitational Scholar Fellowship

 

Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Director, Center for Research on Antisemitism, Institute of Technology, Berlin, Germany

 

Debra L. Schultz, Assistant Professor of History, Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York

 

Kevin M. Schultz, Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Leslie A. Schwalm, Professor of History and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa

 

Peter Schweppe, Assistant Professor of German Studies and History, Montana State University

 

Rebecca Scott, Adjunct Professor of History

 

Steven Seegel, Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado; Translator for USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos

 

Raz Segal, Assistant Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University

 

Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies, University of Washington

 

Joshua Shanes, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston

 

Scott J. Shapiro, Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University

 

James J. Sheehan, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Stanford University

 

Noah Shenker, N. Milgrom & 6a Foundation Senior Lecturer, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Australia; Research Fellow 2006-2007

 

Daniel J. Sherman, Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Art History and History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

* David Shneer, Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder; Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow 2004-5

 

Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History, Yale University

 

Jennifer Siegel, Professor of History, The Ohio State University

 

Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

 

* Lewis Siegelbaum, Jack and Margaret Sweet Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Michigan State University

 

Zuzana Sihelníková, Ph.D. Student, Department of Mediamatics and Cultural Heritage, University of Žilina, Slovakia

 

Jordana Silverstein, ARC Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia

 

Sara Silverstein, Assistant Professor of History and Human Rights, University of Connecticut

 

Bryant Simon, Professor of History, Temple University

 

Brad Simpson, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Connecticut

 

Alan Singer, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in European History, Honors College, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

 

* Helene Sinnreich, Associate Professor, Religious Studies and Director, Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Editor in Chief, Journal of Jewish Identities; Research Fellow 2007

 

Shana Sippy, Assistant Professor of Religion, Centre College/Danville, KY, Co-Director, Religious Diversity in MN Initiative/Research Associate, Carleton College

 

Dawn Skorczewski, Research Professor of English, Brandeis University

 

David Slucki, Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies, College of Charleston, co-director of Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies, College of Charleston

 

William Smaldone, E. J. Whipple Professor of  History, Willamette University

 

Dana Smith, Assistant Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College

 

Helmut Walser Smith, Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

 

Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University; Faculty Advisor Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies; Member, Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

 

Jennifer Sorensen, Independent Researcher & Writer, New Jersey

 

Daniel Soyer, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Fordham University

 

Roland Spickermann, Associate Professor, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin

 

Leo Spitzer, Vernon Professor of History, Emeritus, Dartmouth College

 

Martha Sprigge, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Ronit Y. Stahl, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

 

Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Yale University

 

David E. Stannard, Emeritus Professor of American Studies, University of Hawaii at Mãnoa

 

Paul Steege, Associate Professor of History, Faculty Director, Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest, Villanova University

 

Richard Steigmann-Gall, Associate Professor of History and former Director of Jewish Studies, Kent State University

 

Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Professor of History, Maurice Amado Chair of Sephardic Studies and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director, Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Gerald J. Steinacher, Professor of History and Hymen Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; former Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellow, 2005-06

 

Sybille Steinbacher, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 2012-13 Ina Levine Inviational Scholar

 

Alexandra Steinlight, Past & Present Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK

 

Philipp Stelzel, Assistant Professor of History, Duquesne University

 

Frances Glazer Sternberg, Ph.D., Lecturer, Jewish Studies Program, University of Kansas

 

Oren Baruch Stier, Professor of Religious Studies, Director, Holocaust and Genocide Studies & Jewish Studies Certificate Program, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University

 

Alexa Stiller, Ph.D., Research Fellow, University of Bern, Switzerland; Former Fellow,  MCAHS Workshop Leader

 

Lauren Stokes, Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University

 

Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History and Director, Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

 

Elizabeth Strauss, Assistant Professor of History, Mount St. Mary’s University; Barbara and Richard Rosenburg Fellow 2007-2008, Contributor to USHMM’s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos

 

Dorian Stuber, Isabelle Peregrin Odyssey Professor of English, Hendrix College; “Bearing Witness: Holocaust Literature and Education” 2018-2021

 

Jelena Subotic, Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University

 

Thomas J. Sugrue, Professor of History and Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

 

Charley Sullivan, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Michigan

 

Irena Šumi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Marina Swoboda, Ph.D., Adjunct Lecturer in History, Anglo-American University in Prague, Czech Republic

 

Guillaume de Syon, Professor of History, Albright College; Hess fellow 2005

 

Frances Tanzer, Visiting Assistant Professor, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University

 

Naomi S. Taub, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; USHMM Intern to the Chief Archivist, 2010-2011

 

Nicholas Terry, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Exeter, UK; USHMM Fellow 2004

 

Kai M. Thaler, Assistant Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Fabien Théofilakis, Assistant Professor, Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains, University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France

 

Jennifer Thompson, Associate Professor, Maurice Amado Professor of Applied Jewish Ethics and Civic Engagement, Jewish Studies Interdisciplinary Program, California State University, Northridge

 

Annette Timm, Professor of History, University of Calgary, Canada; co-instructor Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar 2017

 

Lisa Todd, Associate Professor of History, University of New Brunswick, Canada

 

* Barry Trachtenberg, Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History, Director, Jewish Studies Program, Wake Forest University; former Silberman Seminar co-Director and Hess Seminar participant

 

Corey L. Twitchell, Assistant Professor of German, Southern Utah University

 

Matthew Unangst, Assistant Professor of History, Jacksonville University

 

Daniel Unowsky, Professor of History, University of Memphis

 

Estibalitz Ezkerra Vegas, Ph.D., Lecturer, Basque Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

J. David Velleman, Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics, New York University

 

Alana M. Vincent, Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Religion, and Imagination, University of Chester, UK

 

Oren Vinogradov, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Music, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Elizabeth Vlossak, Associate Professor of History, Brock University, Canada

 

Nikolaus Wachsmann, Professor of Modern European History, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

 

* Anika Walke, Associate Professor of History and International and Area Studies, Washington University in St. Louis; Research Fellow of the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies 2010, Hess Faculty Seminar participant 2012

 

Charles Walker, MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in Global Human Rights, University of California, Davis

 

James Waller, Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College

 

Kenneth Waltzer, Professor of History Emeritus, James Madison College, Michigan State University

 

Steven M. Wasserstrom, Moe and Izetta Tonkin Professor of Judaic Studies and the Humanities, Reed College

 

Keith David Watenpaugh, Professor and Director of Human Rights Studies, University of California, Davis

 

Leslie M. Waters, Assistant Professor of History, The University of Texas at El Paso; former Fellow

 

Ulrike Weckel, Professor of History in the Media and in the Public, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

 

Joanne Weiner Rudof, Archivist Emeritus, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocasut Testimonies, Yale University

 

Alice Weinreb, Associate Professor of Modern History, Loyola University Chicago; recipient of Wiener Library Fraenkel Book Prize; former editor of World ORT Music and the Holocaust

 

Lori R. Weintrob, Professor of History and Director, Holocaust Center, Wagner College

 

Gary Weissman, Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty member of Judaic Studies, University of Cincinnati; Participant, Research Workshop at the Mandel Center (2014)

 

Eric D. Weitz, Distinguished Professor of History, City College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

 

Angela West, Ph.D. Candidate, Program in History and Culture, Drew University; former intern and current affiliated scholar at USHMM

 

Benjamin Thomas White, Lecturer in History, University of Glasgow, UK

 

Thomas White, Associate Director/ Coordinator of Educational Outreach, Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College

 

Jonathan Wiesen, Professor of History, University of Alabama at Birmingham; 2018 USHMM Silberman Seminar Participant

 

Michał J. Wilczewski, Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

George Williamson, Associate Professor of History, Florida State University

 

Rebecca Wittmann, Chair, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada

 

Sebastian Wogenstein, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Interim Director, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, University of Connecticut

 

* Diane Wolf, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis

 

Yoke-Sum Wong, Ph.D., Managing Editor, Journal of Historical Sociology, Alberta University of the Arts, Canada

 

Jamie L. Wraight, Ph.D., Director, The Voice/Vision Holocaust Oral History Archive, The University of Michigan-Dearborn; Photo Archive Intern (1995) and Hess and Silberman Seminar participant

 

Kathleen Wroblewski, Assistant Professor of History, Missouri State University

 

Yasemin Yildiz, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Stephenie Young, Faculty Research Associate at the Salem State University Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Professor of English, Salem State University

 

Tara Zahra, Homer J. Livingston Professor of History, The University of Chicago

 

Michael Zank, Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Medieval Studies and Director, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University

 

Kimberly E. Zarecor, Professor of Architecture, Iowa State University

 

Jonathan Zasloff, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Steven Zipperstein, The Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University

 

Eve Zucker, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Yale University