Ayal Feinberg, Research Fellow

Dr. Ayal Feinberg is the Director of the Center for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights at Gratz College, where he serves as an Associate Professor of Political Science & Antisemitism Studies. The Holocaust and Genocide Studies graduate program that he oversees at Gratz College is the largest in the world, with over 160 degree-seeking students. Under his initiative, Gratz College started the country’s first M.A. in Antisemitism Studies in Spring 2024, which has close to 30 graduate students in its inaugural cohort.

Dr. Feinberg serves as an advisor on the core exhibit at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. 

He works as a Quantitative Research Fellow for the Anti-Defamation League, where he served as PI on the world’s largest antisemitism survey—the G100—consisting of nearly 60,000 respondents across 103 countries and territories.

He volunteers his time and expertise at several Jewish communal organizations and testifies as an expert witness in hate crime trials.

His research has been widely featured in leading journals and media outlets such as the Journal of Peace Research, Perspectives on Politics, International Interactions, Politics & Religion, and The Washington Post’s “Monkey Cage” among many others.

He is currently co-editing a special issue of APA’s flagship journal, American Psychologist, examining contemporary antisemitism.

His bias-incident and hate crime research was inducted into the Congressional Record during the 2019 House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on “Hate Crime and the Rise of White Nationalism.”