Experts Directory

Kenneth Waltzer

Kenneth Waltzer teaches history in James Madison College at Michigan State University and directs the Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University. He is the former director of the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities at MSU and has served as both associate dean and dean of MSU's James Madison College. Professor Waltzer's interests include American social and political history, especially immigrant and urban history, and modern Jewish history, including the Holocaust and the comparative study of American and Israeli Jewry. He is currently completing a book on the rescue of children and youths at Buchenwald. In July 2008 he will participate in "Studying Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century," a research seminar sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Kirsten Fermaglich

Kirsten Fermaglich is associate professor of history and Jewish studies at Michigan State University. She is the author of “American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965” (University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 2006) and was co-curator of “Uneasy Years: Michigan Jewry in Depression and War,” a 2002-03 exhibition at the MSU Museum that was honored by the Michigan Humanities Council. She has also been a program leader for the Michigan Teachers Workshop on Holocaust Education.

Karrin M. Hanshew

Karrin M. Hanshew is assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. She has taught undergraduate courses on the Holocaust, addressing persecution and genocide in Europe, 1933-1945; perpetrators, victims, bystanders and resistors; and post-Holocaust memory, film, literature and philosophical implications.

Keely Stauter-Halsted

Keely Stauter-Halsted is associate chairperson of the Michigan State University Department of History and the former acting director of the MSU Jewish Studies Program. She is the author of "The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Rural National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1900" (Cornell University Press, 2001), which won the Orbis Prize for outstanding book on Polish affairs in 2002. In 2001 she received the Kussy Scholarship for Holocaust Research from MSU's James Madison College. Her research areas include modern Eastern Europe, Poland and Jewish history.

Jeff Charnley

Jeff Charnley is associate chairperson of the Michigan State University Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures. He leads a popular Study Abroad program, "The United States and World War II Europe: Memory and Memorials," which takes students to the United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany and addresses moral issues and human conflict as well as the relationships between history, memory and commemoration. His research areas include oral history and military history.

Mary Juzwik

Mary Juzwik is assistant professor of language and literacy. She studies classroom discourse and linguistic and cultural diversity in literacy teaching and learning. Her current work focuses on classroom discourse in English language arts classrooms. Specific areas of expertise include narrative and rhetorical theory, facilitating discussion in English language arts instruction, writing theory and instruction, English teaching in linguistically and culturally diverse contexts and Holocaust education. She has authored "The Rhetoric of Teaching: Understanding the Dynamics of Holocaust Narratives in an English Classroom."

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