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

• Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025), winner of the 2024 George L. Mosse First Book Prize.

• Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars, coedited with Kevin P. Spicer, CSC (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 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 Mark Jantzen and John D. Thiesen, eds. European Mennonites and the Holocaust (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2020), in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 2025.

• 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).

• Review of Monique Scheer, Enthusiasm: Emotional Practices of Conviction in Modern Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), New Books blog, George L. Mosse Program in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Fall 2022).

• Review of Robert Braun, Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), in Contemporary Church History Quarterly 27, 3 (2021).

Select Presentations and Interviews

• “New Approaches to Interpreting Christian Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust,” Distinguished Lecture, Haverford College, January 27, 2025.

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

• Plenary Session Participant, “Anti-Judaism and Biblical Literature,” Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Conference, March 5, 2023.