Linda Maizels

Dr. Linda Maizels is an independent scholar and researcher on antisemitism. Her doctoral dissertation, “Charter Members of the Fourth World”: Jewish Student Identity and the “New Antisemitism” on American Campuses, 1967-1994, examined the roots of contemporary campus antisemitism.  Her master’s thesis, The Universal Nature of Hatred: Keith Stimely and the Culture of Holocaust Denial, focused on Holocaust denial, specifically the right-wing Institute for Historical Review.

Currently, Maizels is an adjunct faculty member at the Spertus Institute, where she teaches a course on antisemitism for the Master in Arts in Jewish Professional Studies (MAJPS) and lectures for the Leadership Certificate in Combating Antisemitism (LCCA). She is also a member of the Advisory Council for the Brandeis University Presidential Initiative to Counter Antisemitism in Higher Education and a Senior Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.

Publications include:

• What is Antisemitism? A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, September 2022)
• “Jewish ‘Whiteness’ and its Effects in the Aftermath of October 7,” in Responses to 7 October (Routledge, May 2024)
• “Antisemitism in the Aftermath of October 7: How did we get here?” (George Washington University Program on Extremism March 4, 2024)
• “In the Context of a Coarsened Climate: Campus Antisemitism and the Alt-Right, Alt-Lite, and Far-Left,” in Contending with Antisemitism in a Rapidly Changing Political Climate (Indiana University Press, November 2021)
• Academic Freedom, Freedom of Expression, and the BDS Challenge: A Guide and Resource Book for Faculty, coauthored with Kenneth Waltzer, (September 2017)
• “On Whiteness and the Jews,” Journal for the Study of Antisemitism (Vol. 3, No. 2, 2011).