Linda Maizels
Linda Maizels
Fellow
Dr. Linda Maizels is the Managing Director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA). She published What is Antisemitism? A Contemporary Introduction with Routledge in 2022. Her doctoral dissertation, “Charter Members of the Fourth World”: Jewish Student Identity and the “New Antisemitism” on American Campuses, 1967-1994, examined the historical roots of contemporary campus antisemitism in the United States, and her master’s thesis, The Universal Nature of Hatred: Keith Stimely and the Culture of Holocaust Denial, focused on the internal dynamics of the right-wing Institute for Historical Review, an organization known for promoting Holocaust denial by masking it as a “scholarly” endeavor. Dr. Maizels taught at Portland State University, Colby College, and the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership; is a member of the Advisory Council for the Brandeis University Presidential Initiative to Counter Antisemitism in Higher Education; and is a Research Fellow at both the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. Previous to her employment at Yale, she worked for the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy at the U.S. Department of State and was also a Franklin Fellow for the Department’s Bureau of African Affairs.
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).