Board of Directors & Staff

SPME's Board of Directors is comprised of an experienced mix of professors from the most prestigious universities and colleges as well as members of other organizations. Their breadth of expertise and perspectives has proven invaluable as SPME has grown and expanded across the country and overseas.

Richard Cravatts, PhD

12 Richard Cravatts
President
Simmons College, USA
(2011 - Present)

Contact Richard Cravatts

Shlomo Dubnov, PhD

5 Shlomo Dubnov
Treasurer
University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA
(2011 - Present)

Contact Shlomo Dubnov

Leila Beckwith, PhD

10 Leila Beckwith
Interim Secretary
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
(2006 - Present)

Contact Leila Beckwith

John R. Cohn, MD

11 John R. Cohn
Interim Vice President
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
(2005 - Present)

Contact John R. Cohn

Joel Fishman, PhD

14 Joel Fishman
Jerusalem Institute for Public Affairs, Israel
(2011 - Present)

Contact Joel Fishman

David Menashri, PhD

18 David Menashri
Tel Aviv University, Israel
(2009 - Present)

Contact David Menashri

Donna Robinson Divine, PhD

20 Donna Robinson Divine
Smith College, USA
(2005 - Present)

Contact Donna Robinson Divine

Ralf Schumann, MD

23 Ralf Schumann
Charité Berlin, Germany
(2011 - Present)

Contact Ralf Schumann

Staff

Asaf Romirowsky, PhD

27 Asaf Romirowsky
SPME Acting Executive Director
Foundation for Defense for Democracies and the Middle East Forum, USA
(2011 - Present)
(Non-voting)

Contact Asaf Romirowsky

Former Members & Staff

Steven Albert, PhD, MPH

University of Pittsburgh, USA
(2005 - 2013)

Awi Federgruen, DSc

Columbia University, USA
(2007 - 2013)

Rev. India E. Garnett

United Church of Christ, USA
(2002 - 2013)

Judith S. Jacobson, DrPH

Co-founder of SPME. Columbia University, USA
(2002 - 2013)

Richard Landes, PhD

Boston University, USA
(2003 - 2013)

Ruth Lichtenberg-Contreras, PhD

Natural History Museum Vienna , Austria (Retired)
(2002 - 2013)

Ken Marcus, JD

The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Institute for Jewish & Community Research, USA
(2009 - 2013)

G.S. Don Morris, PhD

Wingate Institute - IL, California Polytechnic Institute-Pomona, USA
(2004 - 2013)

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
(2009 - 2013)

Philip Carl Salzman, PhD

McGill University, Canada
(2005 - 2013)

Ernest Sternberg, PhD

University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA
(2009 - 2013)

Laurie Zoloth Feinberg, PhD

School of Medicine, Northwestern University, USA
(2006 - 2013)

Jonathan Adelman, PhD

University of Denver, USA
(2005 - 2012)

Peter Haas, PhD

Case Western Reserve University, USA
(2003 - 2012)

Barry Rubin, PhD

Interdisciplinary Center and GLORIA Center, Israel
(2007 - 2012)

Edward S. Beck, EdD

Co-founder and President Emeritus of SPME
Walden University, USA
(2002 - 2011)

Samuel M. Edelman, PhD (Former Executive Director)

California State University-Chico Emeritus, USA
(2009 - 2011)

Efraim Karsh, PhD

Kings College London, UK
(2002 - 2011)

Matthias Küntzel, PhD

Political Scientist and Author, Germany
(2006 - 2011)

Brigitte Bailer

Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, Austria
(2007 - 2009)

Robert S. Mirin, Esq *

Harrisburg, USA
(2002 - 2009)

Phyllis Chesler, PhD

City University of New York Staten Island, USA
(2005 - 2007)

Gerald Steinberg, PhD

Bar Ilan University, Israel
(2002 - 2007)

Allan Lipton, MD

Penn State College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, USA
(2003 - 2006)

Nidra Poller

France
(2002 - 2006)

Peter Gomori, PhD

St. Francis College, USA
(2002 - 2004)

Patricia Jennings, MEd, PhD

University of California Davis (UCD), USA
(2002 - 2004)

Yigal Levin, PhD

Bar-Ilan University, Israel
(2002 - 2004)

Rabbi Ilana Rosansky

Salem State University, Temple Shalom, USA
(2003 - 2004)

David Goldman, JD

Amper, Mattia and Politziner, CPA's Inc., USA
(2002 - 2003)

Charles Isbell, PhD

Louisiana State University, USA
(2002 - 2003)

Frederick Krantz, PhD

Concordia University Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, Canada
(2003)

Moshe Ma'oz, PhD

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
(2002 - 2003)

Daniel Pipes, PhD

Middle East Forum, USA
(2002 - 2003)
* Deceased.