Initiatives

United Nations

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

Co-Author and Scholar Advisor for "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, New York — 24 January 2023
• Traveling exhibit: Stockton University, New Jersey — 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

Ernst Fraenkel Book Prize Jury

Member, Ernst Fraenkel Book Prize Jury, The Wiener Holocaust Library, London. 2017–present.

Guest Expert Historian: Museums & Exhibitions

Leo Baeck Institute

Scholar Advisor for the Holocaust period. Project: "Shared History: 1700 Years of Jewish Life in German-speaking Lands through 52 Objects." A virtual exhibit produced in association with the Association 321-2021: 1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in Deutschland. Opened 1 January 2021.

Center for Holocaust, Human Rights, and Genocide Education, Brookdale Community College

Scholar Advisor for the "A Journey to Life" permanent exhibition.

Sydney Jewish Museum

Guest Curator, exhibition: "Signs of Life" (2014–2016).

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 (2013–2014)

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)

Member, U.S. Delegation, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), 2011–2021. The IHRA is 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)

Advisory Boards (Current)

• Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities
• Facing History and Ourselves
• The International Research Institute on Jewish Women, Brandeis University
• Leo Baeck Institute
• Wiener Holocaust Libary