Executive Members

Adam Dickson is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University and a Postgraduate Fellow of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.

His research explores antisemitism in English football, with a particular focus on how collective memory, and moral injury shape the experiences of Jewish supporters. Drawing on trauma informed perspectives, his doctoral research examines how antisemitism is experienced, negotiated, and understood within contemporary sporting environments.

Adam holds an MA in Trauma-Informed Education Practice from Teesside University, and completed his teacher training through St Mary's College, Durham University, gaining both Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and Membership to the Chartered College of Teaching (MCCT).

Adam has contributed to a range of public-facing and policy-focused projects concerning contemporary antisemitism.  In 2026, he co-authored, with Professor David Hirsh, the independent review into the prohibition of Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters at an Aston Villa UEFA Europa League fixture, which was launched at the House of Lords and commissioned by the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and HM Independent Adviser on Antisemitism, Lord John Mann.  The review examined questions of proportionality, equality, and public policy in responses to antisemitism within football contexts.

Adam's work has been published in educational and interdisciplinary contexts, including research on trauma informed approaches to history education and genocide memorialisation.  He is also an academic adviser to initiatives addressing antisemitism in sport and regularly delivers training, public engagement activities, and invited presentations on contemporary antisemitism, education, and football culture.

Constantin Winkler is a social scientist from Berlin. He conducts research on antisemitism and radicalization in digital gaming communities and is a doctoral candidate of Karin Stögner at the University of Passau and a researcher in the RadiGaMe (Radicalization on gaming platforms and messenger services) project at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). He specializes in antisemitism research, cultural sociology and critical theory. Website: constantinwinkler.de

Dr. Tami Peterson is an affiliate faculty member in Holocaust and Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College where she also serves as the Strategic Engagement Coordinator for the Center for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights. While a PhD candidate, Dr. Peterson was the Inaugural Visiting Student Scholar at the Center for the Study of Antisemitism at New York University. Her current research focuses on antisemitic attitudes during the 1941 pogroms in Eastern Poland and Western Ukraine, the relationship of such attitudes to deadly violence, and how understanding this relationship can help us address contemporary antisemitic violence. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics, Philosophy and History and Master of Research in Social and Political Theory, both from Birkbeck, University of London as well as a PhD in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Gratz College. Dr. Peterson has published on Holocaust denial and contemporary antisemitism in the peer-reviewed Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism and is regular speaker on the topics of contemporary antisemitism and the Holocaust.

Dr. Sharon Shahaf is an Israeli-American media scholar, educator, and research entrepreneur, and Affiliate Faculty in the Doctoral Program in Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College. Her work focuses on global media and the rise of contemporary antisemitism, particularly the role of mediated environments and the implications of rising antisemitism for Israeli creative industries. Building on her expertise in qualitative research methods and critical media studies, Dr. Shahaf developed Qualitative Approaches to Antisemitism and Media Analysis in Antisemitism Studies, among the first courses designed specifically to train doctoral students in qualitative and media-analytic approaches within the emerging field of antisemitism studies and is contributing to curriculum development for the field.

Dr. Shahaf earned her Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas at Austin and holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature and a B.A. in Communication and Comparative Literature from Tel Aviv University. From 2009 to 2018, she served as Assistant Professor of Global Television Studies at Georgia State University and, later served several years as a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Shahaf received multiple fellowships and awards for her research, including the prestigious Zvulun Hammer Memorial Award from Israel’s Second Authority for Radio and Television for her dissertation research on Israeli adaptations of global television formats.

Her published scholarship focuses on media globalization, Israeli creative industries, and transnational media cultures. She is the co-editor of Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across Borders (Routledge, 2012), recipient of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Best Edited Collection Award. Her work has appeared in journals including Critical Studies in Television, Creative Industries Journal, and Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture.

Her current research explores the role of media and popular culture in understanding contemporary antisemitism after October 7, with particular attention to digital discourse, the intersection of mediated and real-life environments such as university campuses and the Eurovision stage, and the experiences of Israeli cultural workers operating within transnational media environments. Her ongoing research on Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest after October 7 examines the experiences of Israeli delegation members within increasingly hostile international cultural environments using ethnography, discourse analysis, semiotics, and other qualitative methods. The first publication emerging from this research is an article currently in development for the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism.

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.”

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.

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.

Chad Alan Goldberg is Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (USA), where he is also affiliated with the George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies and the George L. Mosse Program in History, and (beginning in March 2026) Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He writes about politics, history, and social theory. His award-winning books include Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen’s Bureau to Workfare (2008); Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought (2017); and Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea (2020).

You can find links to his work on his personal website: https://chadalangoldberg.com/publications/

Joanne Strasser is a PhD candidate in Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College whose work advances a dual-structure model of antisemitism as a durable interpretive system operating across academic, cultural and political domains. Her research examines how antisemitic meanings are stabilized prior to encounter, shaping institutional practice, scholarly discourse and Jewish experience in contemporary public life.

Her scholarly interests include contemporary antizionism, left-wing German student movements of the 1970s, German and Soviet political history and the psychosocial adaptations formed under conditions of chronic misrecognition. She is particularly concerned with the ways antisemitism persists within intellectual environments that understand themselves as emancipatory or anti-racist, and with the implications of this persistence for scholarship, pedagogy and academic freedom.

She holds an M.A. in Sociology from The New School for Social Research and a B.A. in German and Russian Languages and Literature from Brandeis University. Her work draws on interdisciplinary methods spanning sociology, history, psychoanalytic theory and narrative analysis, and is informed by extensive research experience in Germany and the post-Soviet space, including work with German- and Russian-language sources.

Liz Berger is a PhD student in the inaugural cohort of the Antisemitism Studies Program at Gratz College.

She works as a Research Consultant in the International Affairs Division of the Anti-Defamation League on the ATLAS project (Antisemitism Trends, Learnings and Statistics) aggregating data on antisemitism incidents globally.

Her research interests include Christian Antisemitism, Gendered Antisemitism, the psychosocial risk factors for rapid radicalization on college campuses, and measurement of trauma related impact of antisemitic incidents cross-nationally.

She holds a Masters of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania and a Certificate in Trauma from Bryn Mawr College. She has previously worked with children, teens and adults in therapeutic outpatient settings, pediatric hospitals as well as an advocate for her clients in juvenile justice, child welfare, and school systems.

Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Hüseyin Çiçek is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Psychology at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna, and Associate Fellow at the Academy for International Affairs in Bonn.

He completed his Habilitation at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2021 with a study on religion, violence, and minority dynamics in global contexts. His research focuses on antisemitism, extremism, radicalisation, migration, and politico-religious ideologies.

Dr. Çiçek regularly publishes in international journals and serves on various academic and policy advisory boards.

Dr. Linda Maizels is the Managing Director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA).

She published What is Antisemitism? A Contemporary Introduction with Routledge in 2022.

Her doctoral dissertation, Charter Members of the Fourth World”: Jewish Student Identity and the “New Antisemitism” on American Campuses, 1967-1994, examined the historical roots of contemporary campus antisemitism in the United States.

Her master’s thesis, The Universal Nature of Hatred: Keith Stimely and the Culture of Holocaust Denial, focused on the internal dynamics of the right-wing Institute for Historical Review, an organization known for promoting Holocaust denial by masking it as a "scholarly" endeavor.

Dr. Maizels taught at Portland State University, Colby College, and the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership; is a member of the Advisory Council for the Brandeis University Presidential Initiative to Counter Antisemitism in Higher Education; and is a Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. Previous to her employment at Yale, she worked for the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy at the U.S. Department of State and was also a Franklin Fellow for the Department's Bureau of African Affairs.

John Strawson is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of East London. He works at the intersection between law and Middle East studies with special interests in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Islamic legal studies and postcolonialism. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague, Netherlands), visiting professor at Birzeit University (Palestine) and was visiting professor of law at the International Islamic University Malaysia (Kula Lumpur). He is chair of the Hashomer Hatzair charitable trust and is advisory editor of Fathom Journal.

His publications include:
Partitioning Palestine: Legal Fundamentalism in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (2010)
Law after Ground Zero (editor, 2002)
Injustice, Memory and Faith in Human Rights (Co-editor, 2018).

Yael Silverstein is a Ph.D. candidate in Social-Organizational Psychology with a M.S. Applied Statistics at Columbia University. Her research examines how stereotypes and stereotype violations, particularly around gender, ethnicity, and Jewish identity, shape perceptions and outcomes in social and organizational contexts. She also investigates how social experiences and institutional cues impact minority individuals’ sense of value, belonging, and well-being. Her current work includes the development of a new scale to measure contemporary antisemitic experiences.

Silverstein, Y. M., & Block, C. J. (2025). Making the invisible visible: Exploring contemporary antisemitic experiences on college campuses through racial microaggressions theory. The Journal of Jewish Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15244113.2025.2482060.

Silverstein, Y. M., & Block, C. J. (2025). The influence of interpersonal and ambient antisemitism on belonging, organizational commitment, and mental health of Jewish university members. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025(1).

Silverstein, Y. M., & Block, C. J. (2025). Understanding antisemitism: Why perceiver and target perspectives are both essential.” [Manuscript submitted for publication].

Dr. Daniel Miehling is a computational social scientist and Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University Bloomington, affiliated with the Borns Jewish Studies Program and the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA). He holds a Ph.D. in General Linguistics from the Technical University of Berlin, where he specialized in online antisemitism and digital hate speech. His interdisciplinary work bridges Jewish Studies and computational linguistics, focusing on the dissemination of antisemitism and misinformation, political polarization and conspiracy narratives across digital platforms.

He is the author of Online-Antisemitismus verstehen: Hassrede im Web 2.0 (Understanding Online Antisemitism: Hate Speech in Web 2.0, Nomos 2024), and has published in academic journals on antisemitic discourse and social media analysis. Enriching the study of contemporary antisemitism with new methodologies to detect and analyze antisemitic and polarizing content online, he is also developing educational tools that empower students to engage critically with real-world data and the ethical implications of AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in social science.

Cynthia M. Seton-Rogers earned her Ph.D. in the History of Ideas from The University of Texas at Dallas, an interdisciplinary program that integrates history, literature, and philosophy. Her research examines the persistence and adaptability of antisemitism, exploring how it manifests across diverse geographic regions and cultural contexts. She emphasizes the importance of situating antisemitism within the specific social, political, and historical frameworks in which it arises. Her forthcoming monograph, Reframing the Narrative of American Antisemitism: Beyond the Myth of Jewish Exceptionalism (Cambridge Scholars, 2026), offers a critical reexamination of antisemitism’s role in American history, challenging conventional understandings of Jewish experiences and marginalization in the U.S. Her scholarship further explores pedagogical approaches to teaching difficult histories, emphasizing curriculum innovation and strategies to promote critical thinking in diverse learning environments.

In addition to her academic work, Dr. Seton-Rogers is committed to fostering dialogue and education aimed at combating antisemitism and promoting awareness of Holocaust history and its broader implications. She currently serves as the Academic and Outreach Events Manager at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at UT Dallas, where she leads initiatives that bridge scholarship and community engagement.

Cary Nelson is the author or editor of 36 books, including six about antisemitism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They include Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & The Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State (2019) and Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles (2024).  He has also published 400 essays. He is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an affiliated faculty member at the University of Haifa. He holds an honorary doctorate from Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He was national president of the American Association of University Professors from 2006-2012 and presently serves as chair of the Alliance for Academic Freedom.

Leonard Hammer is the holder of the Lakin Chair for the Holocaust, Comparative Genocide, and Human Rights at the University of Arizona’s Center for Judaic Studies. He has written articles about cultural heritage protection, human rights, and international law.

His books include A Foucauldian Approach to International Law: Descriptive Thoughts for Normative Issues (Routledge, 2007), The International Human Right to Freedom of Conscience: Some Suggestions for Its Development and Application (Routledge, 2017), and The Contest and Control of Jerusalem's Holy Sites: A Historical Guide to Legality, Status, and Ownership (co-authored with Marshall J. Breger, Cambridge University Press, 2023).

He  has co-edited a number of books on holy places and on human rights. Leonard has worked for the Open Society Foundation to develop human rights programming in former USSR countries, and on a variety of human rights projects for NGOs around the world.

Leonard also co-created the wholly online Human Rights Practice graduate degree at the University of Arizona in 2016-17, a project-based degree involving NGOs and guest lecturers from around the world. 

He is currently working on a Holocaust education project in Arizona, and is looking to research aspects of memory from a Jewish perspective and what that could mean for preserving the past in the present.

Dr Andre Oboler is CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Law School at La Trobe University. He has worked at the leading edge of international efforts to combat online hate and extremism for over 20 years.

He is responsible for coining the term "Antisemitism 2.0" in 2008 and expanding the field of antisemitism studies into the social media world.

Dr Oboler served as a co-chair of the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism and co-led its working group on antisemitism on the Internet and in the Media from 2008 to 2017.

Since 2015, he has served as an expert member of the Australian Government’s delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance where he serves on the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial.

He was an adviser to the Swedish Government for the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism.

He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as the Chair of the IEEE’s Global Policy Caucus.

Andrea J. Martin is an Assistant Professor of Law and a recipient of the Penn State Dickinson Law Phillip M. Scott Teaching Excellence Award. Her research encompasses constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, and the study of historical and contemporary antisemitism. Through her scholarship in the emerging field of Jewish Law and Policy, she develops legal frameworks and advances strategies to influence legal, governmental, and institutional policies to combat antizionism and other contemporary forms of Jew-hatred and protect civil rights.

Professor Martin’s scholarship has been published in leading journals, including the Yale Law & Policy Review, Brooklyn Law Review, Boston University Law Review online, and Pepperdine Law Review. She has been invited to present her research related to Antisemitism and the Law at several organizations and law schools, including the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Maurice A. Dean School of Law at Hofstra University, and Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.

Before entering academia, Professor Martin served in Rhode Island as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Appellate Division, where she argued cases before the RI Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the District of RI, and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. She also served in the Rhode Island Governor’s Commission on Prejudice and Bias, where she drafted state hate crime legislation and advised state police forces on bias-related prosecutions. She also worked as a strategic legal advisor in the corporate sector for twelve years.

Professor Martin currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Law and Antisemitism Conference, is a Board Member of Penn State Hillel, and a member of the Holocaust Claims Conference Faculty Working Group. Professor Martin is also the co-founder of a new venture - the Center for Jewish Law and Policy, which advances legal frameworks to combat anti-Zionism and Jew-hatred through legal scholarship, education, and professional collaboration. Dedicated to bridging scholarship and practice, Professor Martin actively partners with governmental and non-governmental agencies to develop legal policies and initiatives that strengthen protections against antisemitism and to advance Jewish civil rights worldwide.
She is also faculty advisor for the Jewish Law Students Association, the Penn State Dickinson Law Moot Court Team, and the Native American Law School Association. She has also taught in the CLEO (Council on Legal Education Opportunity) program to increase the number of lawyers from diverse backgrounds and served on the boards of many nonprofit and community organizations, including Temple Sinai, YMCA, Caritas House, and Pink Out Women’s Cancer Fund.

Professor Martin received her J.D. from Howard University School of Law, M.B.A. from Suffolk University, and B.A. in History from the University of Rhode Island. Her interests and hobbies include history and writing.

Lars Rensmann is Professor of Political Science and Comparative Government at the University of Passau (from April 1, 2022). From 2016 to 2022, he was Professor of European Politics and Society at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, where he also served as the Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Cultures and Politics and as Chair of the Department of European Languages and Cultures. Prior to this, he was the Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at John Cabot University in Rome and DAAD Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Rensmann has held various other research, teaching and honorary appointments around the world, including Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Vienna, the LMU Munich, Haifa University, and the Freie Universität Berlin. Rensmann has published widely on global and comparative politics; populism, democracy, autocracy, authoritarianism, and antisemitism; global political theory; and global politics & sports. 

His books include The Politics of Unreason: The Frankfurt School and the Origins of Antisemitism (SUNY Press, 2017), Politics and Resentment: Antisemitism and Counter-Cosmopolitanism in the European Union (Brill, co-edited with Julius H. Schoeps, 2011), Arendt and Adorno (Stanford UP, co-edited with Samir Gandesha), Authoritarianism and Democracy (Wochenschau Verlag, 2011, co-authored with Hajo Funke and Steffen Hagemann, in German), Gaming the World: How Sports are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture (Princeton UP, co-authored with Andrei S. Markovits, 2010), and Democracy and the Image of Jews (Springer VS, 2004, in German).