Tatjana Lichtenstein holds degrees from the University of Toronto (PhD), Brandeis University (MA), and the University of Copenhagen (BA/MA). Before coming to UT in 2009, she was a Schusterman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish studies at American University in Washington, D.C. Since September 2017, she is director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies here at UT. Dr. Lichtenstein’s research focuses on minorities, nationalism, state-building, war, and genocide in Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. Her monograph, Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging, was published by Indiana University Press in 2016. It explores how Zionist activists attempted to transform Jewish culture and society in ways that would allow Jews to claim belonging in the new multinational state.
Tatjana Lichtenstein
