Recent Faculty Accomplishments
Many of our faculty use an interdisciplinary approach both in their research and teaching. This approach also extends beyond the university's walls, where our faculty consult on exhibits, advise public agencies and institutions, and serve on institutional boards. Our faculty members strongly believe in practically applying their expertise in order to contribute positively to the community around us. Our faculty also serve as role models for our students, many of whom are equally active in public history. Some recent examples of these activities and contributions include:
Richard Breitman has served the past year at the National Archives and Record Service as Director of Historical Research for the Nazi War Criminals Records and Imperial Japanese Records Interagency Working Group. Breitman also served as the editor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Alan Kraut is the President of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and is a member of the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island History Committee. He is on the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Historical Society's Academic Council, the Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the Washington Society for the History of Medicine. Kraut also serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Immigrant Health and Washington
Peter Kuznick directs the Department's Nuclear Studies Institute and is a frequent commentator on issues surrounding the prevention of the use of nuclear weapons.
Allan Lichtman served as a redistricting advisor for several states, making sure that legislative plans conformed to constitutional and legal requirements. He authored a study published by the Census Monitoring Board on the implications of the Census undercount on redistricting. He was the expert witness for the prevailing parties in the landmark New Jersey redistricting case--the first such case after the 2000 Census. Lichtman comments on history and politics for both CNN and the BBC. He also writes a biweekly column for the Montgomery Gazette(MD).
Pamela Nadell is the Chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and sits on the Editorial Boards of American Jewish History, for which she is also Book Review Editor, and Conservative Judaism. She is on the Academic Advisory Boards of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, the Jewish Women's Archive, Florence G. Heller Jewish Community Association Research Center, the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women, and the Center for Jewish History. Nadell serves as a consultant and member of the planning committee for the exhibit, "Serving Two Worlds: Philip M. Klutznick and the American Experience."
