Faculty Director
Dr. Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. His latest book, In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust, won a Canadian Jewish Literary Award, a Vine Book Award, and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Wingate Literary Prize. He is also author of the award-winning books The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage (2000), Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire (2009), and In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine (2013). Professor Veidlinger is Vice-President of American Academy for Jewish Research, former chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, a former Vice-President of the Association for Jewish Studies, and a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Times Literary Supplement, Smithsonian Magazine, Tablet Magazine, and The Forward. He was Director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies from 2015-2021 and Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University from 2009-2013.
Managing Director
Dr. Miriam Eve Mora is a historian of American immigration and ethnic history, with a focus on Jewish American gender identity. Her areas of research interest and specialization include modern Jewish history, gender and antisemitism, genocide studies, Holocaust memory and representation in pop culture, masculinity, history of Irish conflict, and American Jewish acculturation. Her first book, Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century was released from Wayne State University Press in 2024 and received the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award from the Association for Jewish Studies. She is also currently the lead historian for the Jewish American curricular project as a part of the National History Day “Inclusive History Initiative.” In addition to research and teaching, she has curated museum exhibits, developed curricula and teaching guides, lead campus-wide discussions on antisemitism and identity, and co-created JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience, a comics and pop culture convention celebrating diverse Jewish themes, characters, and narratives in sequential art. She has taught at various academic institutions, served as Historian in Residence for the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society, and as the Academic Director at the Center for Jewish History in New York City.
Chief Administrator
Joseph Johnson is the Chief Administrator for the Wallenberg Institute, Department of Political Science and the Michigan in Washington Program. In this role for the Wallenberg Institute, he acts as a strategic partner to the Faculty Director and has broad responsibility for the Institute's budget, finance, human resources, and facilities.