Initiatives

Scholar Advisor to The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, Education Outreach Section, The United Nations, New York, NY, 2019 – present.

Ernst Fraenkel Book Prize Jury (member), The Wiener Holocaust Library, 2017-present

Guest Expert Historian: Museums and Exhibitions 

  • Co-Author of and Scholar Advisor for Project: “After the End of the World: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps”
    A joint exhibition and education project of the United Nations Department of Global Communications through the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme and the UN Archives and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
    • Opening at U.N. Headquarters (N.Y.) 24 January 2023
    • Traveling exhibit: Stockton University (N.J.) March 2022
    • Traveling exhibit: The Vienna International Center (Austria) 2022
    • Traveling exhibit: Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum (China) February 2023
    • Traveling exhibit: Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center (Maitland, FL) September 2023

  • Leo Baeck Institute and the Association 321-2021: 1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in Deutschland (1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany)
    Scholar advisor for Holocaust period. Project: “Shared History: 1700 Years of Jewish Life in German-speaking Lands through 52 Objects.” A virtual exhibit. Opened 1 January 2021

  • Center for Holocaust, Human Rights, and Genocide Education, Brookdale Community College
    Scholar advisor for “A Journey to Life” permanent exhibition.

  • Sydney Jewish Museum 
    Guest curator for exhibition: “Signs of Life” (2014-16)

  • Museum of Jewish Heritage 
    Scholar advisor for exhibitions:
              Against the Odds: American Jews & the Refugees of Europe, 1933-1941 (2013)
              The Place They Called Auschwitz (2013-14)

Scholar Advisor, Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, October 2021

Member of Amici Group. Brief Amici Curiae of Holocaust and Nuremberg Historians in Support of Neither Party.Federal Republic of Germany, et al., Petitioner, v. Alan Philipp, et al., Respondent. 2020. 

Member, U.S. Delegation, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) 2011-2021

Comprised of 34 member countries, 10 observer countries, and 7 permanent international partners

  • Chair, Academic Working Group (2019-2020)

  • Member, Academic Working Group (2011-2021)

  • Member, Memory Laws Project (2018-2021)

  • Member, Grant Review Committee (2019-2020)

  • Member, Committee on the Genocide of the Roma (2016-2021)

  • Member, Strategy Implementation Group (2018)

  • Member, Funding Committee (2012-2014; 2017)

  • Member, Steering Committee, Project on Holocaust Education Research (2013-2017)

Board of Trustees/Advisory Board/Grant Review (current only)

  • Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities
  • Facing History and Ourselves

  • The International Research Institute on Jewish Women, Brandeis University
  • Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
  • Leo Baeck Institute