Academic/ Admissions Committee

Kagan Fellowship Advisory Committee Members:

  • Steven T. Katz, PhD Chairman
  • Former Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University
  • Professor of Religion
  • Alvin J. and Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Boston University
  • Karel Berkhoff, PhD
  • Senior Researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Lecturer in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Amsterdam
  • Joanna Beata Michlic, PhD
  • Honorary Senior Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Collective Violence, the Holocaust and Genocide, UCL Institute for Advanced Studies
  • Honorary Senior Associate, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
  • Visiting Full Professor of Contemporary History and the Holocaust 2023-2025, Department of History, Lund University
  • Founder and Director of the HBI  Project on Jewish Families, Children, and the Holocaust, (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute), Brandeis University
  • Andrea Löw, PhD
  • Deputy Head, Center for Holocaust Studies, Institute for Contemporary History in Munich
  • J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence 2022, Mandel Center, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Antony Polonsky, PhD
  • Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University
  • Chief Historian of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw
  • Co-Founder and Vice President of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies
  • David Silberklang, PhD
  • Senior Historian, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem
  • Adjunct Professor, Haifa University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Eliyana Adler, PhD
  • Associate Professor in History and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University