Dr. Ion Popa received his PhD from the University of Manchester in 2014. He is an honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester’s Centre for Jewish Studies and a historical consultant for the Program on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Dr. Popa specializes in Modern European History with a focus on the Holocaust, religion and politics, and Jewish-Christian relations. His book, The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2017), was the co-winner of the 2018 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. His second book, tentatively titled A Few Good Men: The Vatican, The Catholic Church in Romania and the Holocaust, is in the process of publication. The research for both of Dr. Popa’s books was supported by the Saul Kagan Fellowship.