Kyra Dezjot

Email:  [email protected]

Research Interests:
American Jewish Communities post WWII, including antisemitism, ethnic relationships and tensions, and lingering Nazi influence post war.

  • B.A.S. Salve Regina University, History and Secondary Education, Summa Cum Laude

    M.A. Kean University, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

     

  • “Teaching the Holocaust: As a Scholar, Educator, and a Jew.”
    Perspectives on History, The American Historical Association, forthcoming

    Book Review: “The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America,” by David Okrent
    The New England Journal of History Spring 2024 Edition

    Book Review: “Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America,” by Thomas Milan Konda
    The New England Journal of History Spring 2022 Edition

    Book Review: “A History of Twentieth-Century Germany,” by Ulrich Herbert
    The New England Journal of History Spring 2021 Edition

    Lecture, History of Feminism
    Fordham University and St. Georges College
    April 2, 2025

    Lecture, Survey of American Jewish History
    Department of Education: New Jersey
    April 3, 2025

    Moderator, American Historical Association Annual Conference
    “State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Africa in World History”
    January 2025

     

  • Digital Humanities Summer Institute, The University of Montreal
    Received full scholarship from the University of Montreal
    Summer 2025

    Honorable Mention, Delta Epsilon Sigma National Writing Competition
    “A Crime Against Humanity: The True Nature of the Jedwabne Massacre,” abridged version. Spring 2021

    Claiborne Pell Medal of Excellence
    Awarded for public policy work to promote peace at the local, state, and national level