Museum* Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Alvin H. Rosenfeld (Chair)
Indiana University
Doris L. Bergen
University of Toronto
Richard Breitman
American University
Christopher R. Browning
University of North Carolina
David Engel
New York University
Willard A. Fletcher
University of Delaware (Emeritus)
Zvi Y. Gitelman
University of Michigan*
Alfred Gottschalk
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Emeritus)
Peter Hayes
Northwestern University
Susannah Heschel
Dartmouth College
Sara R. Horowitz
York University
Steven T. Katz
Boston University
William S. Levine
Phoenix, AZ*
Deborah E. Lipstadt
Emory University
Michael R. Marrus
University of Toronto
John T. Pawlikowski
Catholic Theological Union
Harry Reicher
University of Pennsylvania*
Aron Rodrigue
Stanford University
George D. Schwab
National Committee on American Foreign Policy
Nechama Tec
University of Connecticut (Emerita)
James E. Young
University of Massachusetts
Mission Statement
The mission of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, in cooperation with the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, is:
- To encourage and support new research and scholarship about the Holocaust on a national and international basis.
- To foster and undertake research and publications projects that are not likely to be undertaken by a scholar working alone but that require long-term institutional support.
- To expand the archival collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum through its International Archival Acquisitions Program and to ensure scholarly access to the Museum’s Archives through appropriate archive-related publications.
- To strengthen teaching about the Holocaust at U.S. colleges and universities, as well as abroad, in order to ensure the training of future generations of Holocaust scholars.
- To focus scholarly attention on key issues in the field that require investigation and to serve as a principal venue for scholars to meet for discussion, deliberation, and debate.
- To enhance networking among American and foreign Holocaust scholars and scholars of the Holocaust from diverse academic disciplines.
- To contribute to the field through a program of specialized academic publications, including the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- To ensure the scholarly integrity—of fact and reasonableness of interpretation—of Museum programs and products.
