SPME - Austria
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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
Simmons College, USAPresident
(2011 - Present)
Judith S. Jacobson, PhD
Columbia University, USACo-Founder and Vice-President for Internal Relations
(2002 - Present)
Stanley Dubinsky, PhD
University of South Carolina, USAVice President for External Relations
(2002 - Present)
Shlomo Dubnov, PhD
University of California San Diego (UCSD), USATreasurer
(2011 - Present)
Ruth Lichtenberg-Contreras, PhD
Natural History Museum Vienna , Austria (Retired)Secretary
(2002 - Present)
Jonathan Adelman, PhD
University of Denver, USA(2005 - Present)
Steven Albert, PhD, MPH
University of Pittsburgh, USA(2005 - Present)
Leila Beckwith, PhD
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA(2006 - Present)
John R. Cohn, MD
Thomas Jefferson University, USA(2005 - Present)
Awi Federgruen, DSc
Columbia University, USA(2007 - Present)
Joel Fishman, PhD
Jerusalem Institute for Public Affairs, Israel(2011 - Present)
Rev. India E. Garnett, M.Div
United Church of Christ, USA(2002 - Present)
Peter Haas, PhD
Case Western Reserve University, USA(2003 - Present)
Richard Landes, PhD
Boston University, USA(2003 - Present)
Kenneth L. Marcus, JD
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Institute for Jewish & Community Research, USA(2009 - Present)
David Menashri, PhD
Tel Aviv University, Israel(2009 - Present)
G.S. Don Morris, PhD
Wingate Institute - IL, California Polytechnic Institute-Pomona, USA(2004 - Present)
Donna Robinson Divine, PhD
Smith College, USA(2005 - Present)
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
University of California at Santa Cruz, USA(2009 - Present)
Barry Rubin, PhD
Interdisciplinary Center and GLORIA Center, Israel(2007 - Present)
Philip Carl Salzman, PhD
McGill University, CanadaSPME Conference Coordinator
(2003 - Present)
Ralf Schumann, MD
Charité Berlin, Germany(2011 - Present)
Ernest Sternberg, PhD
University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA(2006 - Present)
Staff
Asaf Romirowsky, MA, PhD Candidate
Foundation for Defense for Democracies and the Middle East Forum, USADeputy Director/Acting Executive Director
(2011 - Present)
(Non-voting)
Elizabeth Gaither
Mechanicsburg, USADirector of Administrative Services
(Non-voting)
Former Members & Staff
Edward S. Beck, EdD
Co-founder and President Emeritus of SPME
Walden University, USA
(2002 - 2011)
Walden University, USA
(2002 - 2011)
Brigitte Bailer
Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, Austria
(2007 - 2009)
(2007 - 2009)
Phyllis Chesler, PhD
City University of New York Staten Island, USA
(2005 - 2007)
(2005 - 2007)
Samuel M. Edelman, PhD (Former Executive Director)
California State University-Chico Emeritus, USA
(2009 - 2011)
(2009 - 2011)
David Goldman
J.D.Amper, Mattia and Politziner, CPA's Inc., USA
(2002 - 2003)
(2002 - 2003)
Peter Gomori, PhD
St. Francis College, USA
(2002 - 2004)
(2002 - 2004)
Charles Isbell, PhD
Louisiana State University, USA
(2002 - 2003)
(2002 - 2003)
Patricia Jennings, MEd, PhD
University of California Davis (UCD), USA
(2002 - 2004)
(2002 - 2004)
Efraim Karsh, PhD
Kings College London, UK
(2002 - 2011)
(2002 - 2011)
Frederick Krantz, PhD
Concordia University Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, Canada
(2003)
(2003)
Matthias Küntzel, PhD
Political Scientist and Author, Germany
(2006 - 2011)
(2006 - 2011)
Yigal Levin, PhD
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
(2002 - 2004)
(2002 - 2004)
Allan Lipton
Penn State College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, USA
(2003 - 2006)
(2003 - 2006)
Moshe Ma'oz, PhD
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
(2002 - 2003)
(2002 - 2003)
Robert S. Mirin, Esq *
Harrisburg, USA
(2002 - 2009)
(2002 - 2009)
Daniel Pipes, PhD
Middle East Forum, USA
(2002 - 2003)
(2002 - 2003)
Nidra Poller
France
(2002 - 2006)
(2002 - 2006)
Rabbi Ilana Rosansky
Salem State University, Temple Shalom, USA
(2003 - 2004)
(2003 - 2004)
Gerald Steinberg, PhD
Bar Ilan University, Israel
(2002 - 2007)
(2002 - 2007)
Laurie Zoloth Feinberg, PhD
School of Medicine, Northwestern University, USA
(2003 - 2006)
(2003 - 2006)
