Dr. Rebecca Carter-Chand

Dr. Carter-Chand is the director of the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust, which fosters scholarship, teaching, and reflection on the intersections between religion and the Holocaust. In this role, she serves as the staff director of the Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust.

Dr. Carter-Chand’s research focuses on Christian minority groups in Nazi Germany, including the Salvation Army, Quakers, Seventh-Day Adventists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Before coming to the Museum, Dr. Carter-Chand was a visiting assistant professor at Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a lecturer at Lakehead University, Orillia, in Canada. She was a Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellow in 2009–11 and a Cummings Foundation Fellow at the Museum in 2012–13. She currently serves on the editorial teams of Contemporary Church History Quarterly and Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History. She also serves on the board of directors of the Council of Centers on Christian-Jewish Relations and the steering committee of the Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit at the American Academy of Religion. 

Education

• PhD, history and Jewish studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 2016

• MA, history, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 2002

• BA Honours, history, Crandall University, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, 2001

Languages

• English

• German

• French (reading)

Select Publications

• Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars, coedited with Kevin P. Spicer, CSC, McGill-Queen’s University Press (2021)

• Review of Robert Braun’s Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust in Contemporary Church History Quarterly, vol. 27 (2021)

• “A Relationship of Pragmatism and Conviction: The International Salvation Army and the German Heilsarmee in the Nazi Era,” Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History, vol. 32 (2020) 

• “The Politics of Being Apolitical: The Salvation Army and the Nazi Revolution,” Word & Deed: A Journal of Salvation Army Theology and Ministry, vol. 18 (2016)

• Review of Kevin Madigan, The Popes Against the Protestants: The Vatican and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), in Contemporary Church History Quarterly 29, 1 (2023).

Select Presentations and Interviews

• “Minority Churches and other Religious Communities in Nazi Germany,” October 2022 presentation at the University of Virginia

• “Finding Belonging in the Volksgemeinschaft: The Seventh-Day Adventist Church and The Salvation Army in Nazi Germany,” April 2022 presentation, Volk, Volk Gottes, Volkskirche: Zur ekklesiologischen Verwendung des Volksbegriffs vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin.

• “German Churches in the Nazi Era: Action and Reaction in Perilous Times,” June 2021 virtual program, Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

• “Then and Now: Courage, Complicity, and Compromise,” April 2021 keynote address, Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado

• “Courageous Acts Inspired by Faith,” April 2020 Facebook Live program

• "American Religious Responses to the Rise of Nazism and the Holocaust," King's University College, London, Ontario, October 24, 2023. 

• "Continuity and Rupture for Religious Welfare Work in Germany after 1933," German Resistance Memorial Centre, Berlin, December 2023.