Tami Peterson, Research Fellow

Dr. Tami Peterson is an affiliate faculty member in Holocaust and Antisemtism Studies at Gratz College where she also serves as the Strategic Engagement Coordinator for the Center for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights. While a PhD candidate, Dr. Peterson was the Inaugural Visiting Student Scholar at the Center for the Study of Antisemitism at New York University. Her current research focuses on antisemitic attitudes during the 1941 pogroms in Eastern Poland and Western Ukraine, the relationship of such attitudes to deadly violence, and how understanding this relationship can help us address contemporary antisemitic violence. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics, Philosophy and History and Master of Research in Social and Political Theory, both from Birkbeck, University of London as well as a PhD in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Gratz College. Dr. Peterson has published on Holocaust denial and contemporary antisemitism in the peer-reviewed Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism and is regular speaker on the topics of contemporary antisemitism and the Holocaust.