Jeff Kopstein “The American Campus: Antisemitism and Israel- A Survey”
Thursday, January 19, 12:00-1:30 pm
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Jeffrey Kopstein is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. He previously held faculty positions at the University of Toronto, Dartmouth College, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has received fellowships from Harvard University, Princeton University, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum where he serves on its Academic Council. In his research, Professor Kopstein focuses on interethnic violence, voting patterns of minority groups, and anti-liberal tendencies in civil society, paying special attention to cases within European and Russian Jewish history. These interests are central topics in his latest books, Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2018), and Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2023). In his most recent work, Kopstein has turned to the study of antisemitism in the United States.
