Academic Publications
Books
The Menace Among Us: The Jewish Fight Against Antisemitism, from the Ku Klux Klan to the White Power Movement (NYU Press, 2027)
Articles
“Living on a Sort of Island”: Jewish Refugee Farmers in the American South, 1938–46
Creative Power: A Jewish Refugee in the Jim Crow South, 1939–1946
(Winner, Quadrennial Award for Best Article in Southern Jewish History)
Selected Appearances
Public/Academic Talks
“Combatting Antisemitism: A Workshop,” Facilitator, Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center (February 2026)
“Jews and the KKK: Antisemitism, Vigilantism, and Resistance,” Public Program, American Jewish Historical Society (April 2025)
“White Nationalism After 1945,” Guest Lecture, Michigan State University (July 2024)
“The History of Antisemitic Ideas,” Guest Lecture, Orange High School, Hillsborough, North Carolina (January 2024)
“Antisemitism and Social Justice,” Keynote Address, Georgetown Day School, Washington DC (January 2024)
“Jewish Farmers,” Guest Lecture, Har Tzeon-Agudath Achim Synagogue, Silver Spring (January 2023)
Conferences
American Jewish Historical Society Biennial Scholars’ Conference (May 2026)
Cleveland, OH
“The Innocents Defiled: Jews Confronting the Right-Wing Crusade Against Sex Education”
Organization of American Historians Annual Conference (April 2026)
Philadelphia, PE
“Brothers in Arms: Skinheads, Jewish Radicals, and Masculine Aggression in the 1980s”
Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference (December 2025)
Washington, D.C.
“The Cancer Called Shh: American Jewish Antiracism in the Postwar Era”
“Revisiting Henry Ford and The International Jew” (Roundtable)
DC History Conference (April 2025)
Washington, D.C.
“Jews for Urban Justice and Radical Activism in D.C.”
DC History Conference (April 2024)
Washington, D.C.
“‘The Rockwell Madness’: Jews Encountering the American Nazi Party in Washington, D.C.”
Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference (December 2023)
San Francisco, CA
“Defining Un-American: Congressman Samuel Dickstein’s Campaign Against Pro-Nazism”
Southern Jewish Historical Society Annual Conference (October 2023)
Houston, TX
“‘A Shattered Dream’: Southern Jewish Reactions to Klan Antisemitism in the 1920s”
American Jewish Historical Society Biennial Scholars’ Conference (May 2022)
New Orleans, LA
“‘Living on a Sort of Island’: Jewish Refugee Farmers in the American South”
Southern Jewish Historical Society Annual Conference (October 2021)
Virtual Conference
“Creative Power: A Jewish Refugee in the Jim Crow South”
Honors and Grants
Awards
2026: The Friedman Prize, Skirball Cultural Center
for “Exorcising the Dybbuk”
2025: Quadrennial Award for Best Article Published in Southern Jewish History
for “Creative Power: A Jewish Refugee in the Jim Crow South”
2024: Roger Brown Outstanding Dissertation Prize, American University
2021: Mark and Ruth Luckens International Prize in Jewish Thought and Culture
for “‘Living on a Sort of Island’: Jewish Refugee Farmers in the American South”
Fellowships
2024: Leon Levy Fellowship, Center for Jewish History
2023: Fein & Lapidus Fellowship, American Jewish Historical Society
2022: Harold D. Hahn Memorial Fellowship, American Jewish Archives
2022: Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture Fellowship