European History Colloquium - Atina Grossmann, Distinguished Professor of History, The Cooper Union
Between “Orient” and European Catastrophe: Jewish Refugees from National Socialism in Iran and India 1935-1948.

Atina Grossman is Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union in New York City. She received a Ph.D from Rutgers University and a B.A. from The City University of New York. Her current research focuses on “Trauma: Privilege, Adventure in Transit: Jewish Refugees from National Socialism in Iran, India, and Central Asia in Transnational Context.” She has been recently appointed to the Editorial Board of the American Historical Review (journal of the American Historical Association, HA) and to the Editorial Advisory Board of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (journal of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) and Member of the Scholars Advisory Board of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Battery Park, NYC.