Mitchell B. Hart is the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish History. He received his Ph.D. in History from UCLA in 1994. He teaches courses on modern Jewish history, the history of racial thought, and anti-Semitism. He is the author of Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity (Stanford University Press, 2000), The Healthy Jew (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and has edited Jewish Blood: Metaphor and Reality in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture (Routledge, 2009). His book, Jews on Race: A Reader, will be published by New England University Press in 2010. He is co-editor, with Tony Michels, of the Cambridge History of Judaism: The Modern World, which will appear in 2012.
UF Working Group on the Historical Study of Race
