WHO
WE ARE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Daniel Osborn
President
Louisa Polos Condon
Lee Zeidman
Vice President
TJ Griffis
Treasurer
Secretary
SCHOLAR ADVISORY BOARD.
Marc Caplan is the Brownstone Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and the author of Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism and How Strange the Change: Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms.
Lior Sternfeld is an Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State and the author of Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran.
Miriam Udel is an Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Emory University, the author of Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque, and editor and translator of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature.
Golan Moskowitz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Tulane University and the author of Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context.
Molly Theodora Oringer, PhD Candidate
Molly Theodora Oringer is a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at UCLA whose research addresses the legacy of Lebanon’s Jewish community.
STAFF.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Daniel Osborn, EdD
Daniel Osborn is a history educator, education researcher, and nonprofit professional. He specializes in creating multimedia teaching tools, humanities curriculum, and professional learning experiences.
Daniel has dedicated his academic and professional life to the study of Middle Eastern and Jewish histories and advancing a vision of education that is multicultural, global, inclusive of marginalized communities, and relevant for life in a globally-interconnected world.
As a student of history and education, he holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Quinnipiac University, a master’s degree in Near East and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, and a doctorate in education from Boston University.
As a scholar, he is the author of Dismantling Orientalist Representations in US Education: Schooling and Otherness in the Social Studies Classroom and Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education: Teacher Discourse and Otherness. As a memoirist, he is the author of Levantine Vignettes: An Educator's Account of Border Crossing in the Middle East.