Appointment of Julie Cooper as Director

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Julie E. Cooper as the incoming director of the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism. An Associate Professor in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Relations, Cooper works at the intersection of political theory and Jewish studies, with a dedicated focus on Jewish political thought. Her publications include Secular Powers: Humility in Modern Political Thought (Chicago, 2013) and The King is in the Field: Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought (UPenn, 2023), which she co-edited with Samuel H. Brody. Her current research traces the intellectual genealogy of “autonomist” thinking within modern Jewish nationalism, from its Eastern European roots to contemporary Israel.