Join us for a public lecture with Ethan Katz in HUB 145 from 4:00-5:30pm on October 19th, 2027. More details coming soon! Please register here.

Ethan Katz is Associate Professor of History at UC-Berkeley, where is also the Helen Diller Family Faculty Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Katz’s first book, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (Harvard, 2015), received several prizes, including a National Jewish Book Award. Katz has co-edited three other books, including Colonialism and the Jews, a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. His newest book, currently entitled Unsettling Histories: Zionism and Colonialism Reconsidered is under contract with Princeton University Press. Katz has taken a major leadership role in discussions of antisemitism and Israel/Palestine on college campuses. He is the co-founder of two pioneering programs at Berkeley: (1) the Antisemitism Education Initiative, a program to improve the conversation about antisemitism through thoughtful education and engagement; and (2) The Berkeley Bridging Fellowship, a year-long program that brings together diverse students for discussions about Israel and Palestine. His research has been supported by numerous fellowships, including from the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, at the Hebrew University.