Founding advisory council

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1967 and has taught at Indiana University since 1968. He holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and is Director of the university’s Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. He founded Indiana University's well-regarded Borns Jewish Studies Program and served as its director for 30 years. He has been honored with Indiana University Distinguished Service Award and also the Provost’s Medal “in recognition of sustained academic excellence, vision, and leadership resulting in lasting and widespread impact.” In 2019, he received the President’s Medal, Indiana University’s highest award, “in recognition of sustained excellence in service, achievement, and leadership.”

Professor Anthony Julius is Chair in Law and the Arts at University College London and Deputy Chairman of Mishcon de Reya. A lawyer, scholar and author, he has written extensively on antisemitism and Jewish identity, and represented Deborah Lipstadt in her successful defence against Holocaust denier David Irving.

Caryn Block is a Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her current research examines the psychological impact of contemporary antisemitism on Jewish individuals, focusing on how both subtle and overt forms of exclusion affect identity, mental health, and organizational belonging. This work, conducted in collaboration with the Center for Antisemitism Research at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), builds on her longstanding interest in how people navigate marginalization in professional and academic settings.

A leading scholar on identity-based barriers to inclusion in the workplace, Dr. Block studies how individuals advance their careers amid structural and interpersonal obstacles. Her research has explored the effects of gender and racial stereotypes, microaggressions, and stereotype threat—particularly among women and Asian Americans in organizational contexts. She has collaborated with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on perceived racial discrimination at work, and with the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program on the long-term effects of stereotype threat on women in science.

Her work has been published in leading journals including Journal of Vocational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Journal, and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.

Danny Trom is a sociologist and researcher at the CNRS in France. He leads the "Jews and Europe" seminar at the Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales and teaches at the University of Lausanne. Deputy editor of the magazine K. les Juifs, l'Europe, le XXIe siècle, he has devoted several books to Jewish politics: La Promesse et l'obstacle. La gauche radicale et le problème juif [The Promise and the Obstacle. The Radical Left and the Jewish Problem], (2007), Persévérance du fait juif A political theory of Jewish survival, La France sans les juifs [France without the Jews]. (2019). His latest work, L'Etat de l'exil. Les Juifs, l'Europe, Israel The state of exile. Jews, Europe, Israel is devoted to the nature of the State of Israel.

Dave Rich is Director of Policy at the Community Security Trust, an Associate Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, London University, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism. Dave is the author of The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Antisemitism (Biteback, 2016 and 2018) and his academic works include publications on hate crime, conspiracy theories, anti-Israel boycotts, Islamist extremism, and the UK Soviet Jewry movement.

Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt is University Distinguished Professor and Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. An internationally renowned historian, her scholarship focuses on the Holocaust, Holocaust denial and contemporary antisemitism.

From 2022 to 2025, Professor Lipstadt served as the United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, with the rank of Ambassador. In this role, she led US diplomatic efforts to confront antisemitism worldwide and spearheaded the development of the Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism.

Her influential publications include *Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory*, *History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier*, *The Eichmann Trial* and *Antisemitism: Here and Now*. She is particularly well known for successfully defending herself against a libel action brought by Holocaust denier David Irving. Her account of the case, *History on Trial*, received the National Jewish Book Award and inspired the 2016 feature film *Denial*.

Professor Lipstadt has advised governments, museums and international organisations on Holocaust history and antisemitism. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024 and serves on the Advisory Board of the Contemporary Antisemitism Studies Association.

Dina Porat is Professor Emerita of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem, where she previously served as Chief Historian. She has led major research initiatives on the Holocaust and contemporary antisemitism, including at the Stephen Roth Institute and the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry.

Dr Michał Bilewicz is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw and founder of its Center for Research on Prejudice. His research examines the psychological mechanisms of antisemitism, prejudice and collective memory, and he developed a widely used framework for measuring antisemitic attitudes in contemporary societies.

Dr Miri Bar-Halpern is Director of Trauma Training and Services at Parents for Peace and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Her work focuses on trauma, resilience and recovery, including the development of training programmes and public health initiatives addressing antisemitism, extremism, identity-based violence and chronic stress.

Dr Zbyněk Tarant is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies at the University of West Bohemia. His research examines contemporary antisemitism, political extremism and conspiracy cultures in the Czech Republic and across Central Europe, alongside work on Israel Studies and Holocaust memory.

Dr. Miriam F. Elman (PhD, Columbia University) is Executive Director of the Academic Engagement Network, a national organization that builds networks of university faculty and administrators to counter antisemitism, provide robust education about Israel, and strengthen academic integrity and open inquiry in American higher education. She was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University, where she held the title of Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence in the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs. She is the editor and co-editor of seven university press books and nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles focused on contemporary antisemitism, academic freedom, conflict resolution and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Holly Huffnagle is the Director of Antisemitism Policy at American Jewish Committee (AJC), where she leads the organization’s global approach to antisemitism policy, strategy, and prevention. Her experience spans government, international affairs, Holocaust education, and technology policy, including service as Policy Advisor to the U.S. Department of State’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism and as a researcher at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. She works with governments, international organisations and technology companies to develop policies and strategies
that combat antisemitism and strengthen democratic resilience.

The Honourable Professor Irwin Cotler, P.C., O.C., O.Q., Ad.E. is the Founder and International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and a former Member of Parliament, and Canada’s first Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism. A leading scholar of constitutional
and comparative law, he has authored numerous publications and played a prominent role in landmark Charter of Rights cases involving freedom of expression, freedom of religion, minority rights and international justice. He is internationally recognised for his work advancing human rights, combating antisemitism and promoting justice for victims of oppression around the world.

Izabella Tabarovsky is a scholar of Soviet and contemporary antizionism and a fellow of the Wilson Center and the Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism at the University of Haifa. Her research and writing have illuminated the ideological legacy of Soviet antizionism and its continuing influence on contemporary antisemitism and discourse about Israel and Zionism.

Professor Jan Grabowski is a historian at the University of Ottawa and co-founder of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research. His research on the Holocaust in Poland, including the experiences of Jews in hiding and their relationships with local populations, has helped shape contemporary scholarship on the Holocaust and its legacy.

Jeffrey Herf is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park who specializes in 20th-century European intellectual history, especially in Germany. Professor Herf is also a Senior Research Fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism with whom he published his most recent work, “Three Faces of Antisemitism: Right, Left, and Islamist” that includes essays of political commentary about antisemitism in the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Currently, he is co-editing, with Jonathan Brent, a collection entitled “Necessary
Dissent: Essays on Israel, Hamas, and October 7.”

Jonathan D. Sarna is University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University (emeritus). He is Chief Historian of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, Chair of the Academic Advisory & Editorial Board of the American Jewish Archives and a past President of the Association for Jewish Studies. Widely regarded as one of the leading historians of American Judaism, his work has helped shape both the scholarly and public understanding of American Jewish life.

Karin Stögner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Passau, Germany. She founded the Working Group on Antisemitism within the German Sociological Association and serves on the Advisory Board of the Tikvah Institute in Berlin. From 2024 to 2026, she was co-coordinator of the Research Network on Racism and Antisemitism within the European Sociological Association. Drawing on Critical Theory and feminist theory, her
research examines the intersections of antisemitism, racism, nationalism, and sexism in contemporary societies. Her recent book, Antisemitism and Sexism: Ideological Constellations Before and After 7 October, was published in 2026 by Routledge in its Studies in Contemporary Antisemitism series.

Kenneth L. Marcus is Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. A former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, he has played a leading role in developing the legal framework through which antisemitism is addressed in higher education.

Leonard Saxe is Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Social Policy at Brandeis University. He is the former long-time Director of Brandeis’ Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and the Steinhardt Social Research Institute. A social psychologist, he has led major empirical studies of antisemitism, Jewish identity and education, as well as the socio-demography of US Jewry. His work provides theory and evidence-based understandings of contemporary Jewish life.

Baroness Luciana Berger is a member of the House of Lords and former Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree. A longstanding advocate against antisemitism and discrimination, she has played a prominent role in public and political debates on antisemitism, mental health and social cohesion in the UK.

Marat Grinberg is Professor of Jewish Studies - at Creighton University and a scholar of Jewish, Russian and East European literature and culture. His research explores Jewish identity, memory and the Holocaust in Russian and Soviet intellectual life, with particular interests in Jewish literature, film and the cultural experience of Soviet Jewry.

Matthew Williams is the Vice President of the Center for Antisemitism Research at the Anti-Defamation League where he leads ADL’s development of rigorous research and answers to both longstanding and new questions about how to measure, understand and prevent antisemitism. He partners with other ADL departments to utilize research and impact analysis to develop practices for addressing antisemitism.

Stephan Grigat is Professor for Antisemitism Studies at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences North Rhine-Westphalia, Head of the Center for Antisemitism and Racism Studies [CARS] in Aachen and Cologne and member of the Academic Advisory Council at the Tikvah Institute in Berlin. A political scientist, his research focuses on contemporary antisemitism, the history of the Left and the history of Zionism, Critical Theory and political ideologies, with particular expertise on Iran and the Middle East.

Suzanne D. Rutland OAM is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney and a member of Australia's expert delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Former President of both the Australian Association for Jewish Studies and the Australian Jewish Historical Society, her work has shaped the study and public understanding of Jewish history in Australia.

Vlad Khaykin is Executive Vice President for Social Impact and Partnerships (North America) at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He advises governments, law enforcement agencies and technology companies on antisemitism, extremism and digital harms, drawing on expertise in both Soviet and contemporary American antisemitism.