2026-27 Theme: Rethinking Antisemitism
Led by Co-Head Fellows Jeffrey Veidlinger (University of Michigan) and Karla Goldman (University of Michigan)
Affiliations & Project Titles
- Karla Goldman (Co-Head Fellow), University of Michigan, “'Their Presence is Not Altogether Welcome:' Archival Interventions into the University of Michigan’s Narratives of Inclusion”
- Jeff Veidlinger (Co-Head Fellow), University of Michigan, “Pure Michigan: A History of Antisemitism in the Great Lakes Region”
- Tova Benjamin, Davidson College, “Storming the South: Global Trade, Social Unrest, and the Violent Makings of Ethnicity in the Russian Empire, 1871-1905”
- Matt Berkman, Oberlin College, “The 'New Anti-Semitism Paradigm' Since October 7: A Critical Juncture?”
- Heather Blurton, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Piety and Prejudice: The Ritual Crucifixion Accusation in Late Medieval England”
- Ben Bornstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “The Hermeneutics of Antisemitism: Jewish Sense–Making of October 7th and its Aftermath”
- Jonathan Elukin, Trinity College, “A New Intellectual History of Antisemitism and Racism”
- Deborah Forger, University of Michigan, “Weaponizing the Gospel: The Afterlives of John and the Making of Christian Antisemitism”
- Jonathan Judaken, Washington University in Saint Louis, “Remnant and Renaissance: Being Jewish in French Philosophy after Auschwitz”
- Alice Mishkin, University of Michigan, “They are Anti-Jewish Because They're Anti-Israel: American Jews, Palestine Solidarity, and Antisemitism in the Post-October 7th Era”
- Cassandra Euphrat Weston, University of Michigan, “White Slavers, Bolsheviks, and Special Prosecutors: Sex, Jews, and the American State, 1906-1929”
- Marcel Stoetzler, Bangor University, “The Place of Antisemitism in the Changing Theorizations of Racism"
- Ryan Szpiech, University of Michigan, “The Body of Belief: Rethinking Antisemitism and the Premodern “Social Body”
