Lila Corwin Berman is the Paul & Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, where she directs the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History. Her most recent book, The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution, was awarded the 2021 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. In addition to her scholarly articles, Berman has also written guest columns for the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Her new book, Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship (Princeton University Press), will be published next spring.

Michael Brenner is Distinguished Professor of History and Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at American University in Washington DC, where he serves as director of the Center for Israel Studies. He also holds the chair of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and is International President of the Leo Baeck Institute. Among his 9 books are In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism (Princeton University Press, 2022), In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea (Princeton University Press, 2018), and The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (Yale UP, 1996).

Elisheva Carlebach is Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society at Columbia University. Her books include The Pursuit of Heresy; Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism; Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture, and Confronting Modernity, volume 6 inThePosen Library. She served as Editor, AJS Review and President, American Academy for Jewish Research. She was awarded Columbia’s Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award, and recently, a mentorship award by the Association for Jewish Studies. In fall 2025, A Woman is Responsible for Everything, a new approach to the study of Jewish women, co-authored with Debra Kaplan, will be published by Princeton University Press.

Liora Halperin is Professor of International Studies and History, and Distinguished Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, at the University of Washington. A cultural and social historian of Palestine and Israel, she is the author of The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford University Press, 2021) and Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 (Yale University Press, 2015).

Susannah Heschel is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, chair of the Jewish Studies Program, and a faculty member of the Religion Department. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish and Protestant thought during the 19th and 20th centuries, including the history of biblical scholarship and the history of antisemitism. Her books include Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus; The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany; and The Woman Question in Jewish Studies, written with Sarah Imhoff. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship, fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the Maimonides Institute in Hamburg, and the Moses Mendelssohn Prize of the Leo Baeck Institute.

Ethan Katz is Associate Professor of History at UC-Berkeley, where he is also the Helen Diller Family Faculty Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Katz's research interests include Jewish-Muslim relations, Jews in colonial societies, Holocaust studies, and the interplay between religious and secular in modern Jewish life. His first monograph, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (Harvard, 2015), received a National Jewish Book Award and the J. Russell Major Prize of the American Historical Association. Katz has co-edited other books, including Colonialism and the Jews, which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, and most recently When Jews Argue: Between the University and the Beit Midrash.

Alexander Kaye is the Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University, where he occupies the Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Chair in Israel Studies and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. He is a recipient of the Young Scholar Award of the Association for Israel Studies. His prize-winning The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel is about the beginnings of theocratic ideology in Israel.

Laura Arnold Leibman is the Leonard J. Milberg ’53 Professor in American Jewish Studies and the Director of Jewish Studies at Princeton University. Her work focuses on religion and the daily lives of women and children in early America and uses everyday objects to help bring their stories back to life. She is President of the Association for Jewish Studies, and the author several award-winning books including the Art of the Jewish Family (2020) and Once We Were Slaves(2021). She is currently working on a book about Jews and textiles during the long nineteenth century.

James Loeffler is Felix Posen Professor of Modern Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Stulman Jewish Studies Program. His latest book, Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and the Fight over Free Speech in Modern America will be published by Henry Holt in spring 2026.

Maud S. Mandel is president of Williams College. Having earned her B.A. from Oberlin College and her master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, President Mandel served two decades as a faculty member and later administrator at Brown University. Her published work includes, In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France (Duke University Press, 2003); Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict (Princeton University Press, 2014); and the co-edited volumes, Colonialism and the Jews (Indiana University Press, 2017) and The JDC at 100:  A Century of Humanitarianism (Wayne State University Press, 2019.

Deborah Dash Moore is Jonathan Freedman Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan specializing in twentieth-century urban American Jewish history. Her recent book, Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Mid-Century New York(2023), winner of a National Jewish Book Award, extends her interest to photography.

David N. Myers is Kahn Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. He also directs the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate, and the UCLA Dialogue across Difference Initiative. He is the author or editor of many books in the field of Jewish history, including, with Nomi Stolzenberg, American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022), which was awarded the 2022 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish studies.

Pamela Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History at American University, where she directs the Jewish Studies Program. Her book America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award’s Jewish Book of the Year. Her new book, Antisemitism, an American Tradition, is “an urgent and provocative work on the history of hostility to American Jews,” and has been called “the book that the world needs now.” Nadell has also testified before Congress, most recently in the hearing with the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Avinoam Patt is the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at New York University where he also serves as Rennert Director of the Center for the Study of Antisemitism. His books include Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (2009) and The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt (2021). He is also co-editor of Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (2020) and Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (2020). His newest books are Israel and the Holocaust (2024) and the document collection, The Surviving Remnant: Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (2024).

Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He previously taught at Indiana University, University of Toronto, and University of Oxford, where he was an inaugural holder of the Stanley Lewis Chair in Modern Israel Studies.  Penslar has published a dozen books, most recently Zionism: An Emotional State (2023).  He is currently writing a book titled The War for Palestine, 1947-1949: A Global History. Penslar is a past president of the American Academy for Jewish Research, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford.

Ronnie Perelis is the Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies at Yeshiva University. His research investigates connections between Iberian and Jewish culture during the medieval and early modern periods. His book, Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic: Blood and Faith (Indiana University Press), explores family and identity in the Sephardic Atlantic world. Perelis was awarded an NEH grant for his project, Translating the Americastogether with Prof. Flora Cassen (Wash U.) As part of this project, he will prepare a critical edition, English translation, and historical study of the rediscovered manuscripts of Luis de Carvajal, a 16th-century Mexican Crypto-Jewish thinker.

Daniel B. Schwartz is Professor of History at George Washington University, specializing in modern Jewish intellectual, cultural, and urban history. He is the author of The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (Princeton, 2012), Ghetto: The History of a Word (Harvard, 2019), and editor of Spinoza’s Challenge to Jewish Thought (Brandeis, 2019). His current project, American Jerusalem: How New York's Upper West Side Became the Intellectual Capital of the World,1945–2000, traces the history of Manhattan’s Upper West Side as a Jewish epicenter and cultural and cosmopolitan hub, and why its influence ultimately waned.

Nancy Sinkoff is Academic Director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and Professor of Jewish Studies/History at Rutgers University. She is author of Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands and From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History (National Jewish Book Award winner). She is co-editor of Sara Levy’s World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment (Jewish Studies Music Study Group of the AMS winner); Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery (PIASA’s Award for Best-Edited Multi-Authored Scholarly Volume); and A Jew in the Street: New Perspectives on European Jewish History. She is a recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Mellon Foundation, IIE Fulbright, and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Magda Teter is professor of history and the Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth, which won a National Jewish Book Award; Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation; Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland; and Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism.

Magda Teter is professor of history and the Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth, which won a National Jewish Book Award; Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation; Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland; and Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism.

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Inaugural Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan. His most recent book, In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Ukrainian Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust (2021) won the Stan Vine Book Award, a Canadian Jewish Literary Award and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, the Lionel Gelber Award, and the Wingate Literary Prize. He also wrote the award-winning books The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage (2000), Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire (2009), and In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine (2013).