July 20, 2025 • 3:00 pm | Center News, Event Highlights
CJHPS, in partnership with Western Galilee College, hosted the international online conference “New Insights on the Holocaust” in July 2025.
July 18, 2025 • 3:03 pm | Center News, Event Highlights
The 23rd Annual Rosen Summer Symposium brought together educators and community members for a powerful week of learning on July 10–16, 2025.
May 6, 2025 • 3:30 pm | Center News, Student/Alumni Spotlight
BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies (CJHPS) has announced the recipients of their 2024-25 Academic Honors Awards. Established in 2021, the CJHPS Academic Honors Awards celebrate and honor (1)...
April 28, 2025 • 2:40 pm | Center News, Event Highlights
The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies (CJHPS) is proud to announce the winners of the 2024-2025 White Rose Research Contest.
March 18, 2025 • 4:25 pm | Center News
BOONE, N.C. — First launched in 2020-21, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies (CJHPS) recognizes students producing exceptional work in the areas of Judaic, Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies through its annual CJHPS Student Academic Honors...
January 29, 2025 • 10:25 am | Center News, Event Highlights
Monday was cold and rainy but over 30 people joined together in the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies to hold a service for the transfer of the Orphan Scroll from the Temple of the High Country to the center on International Holocaust Remembrance...
January 23, 2025 • 2:22 pm | Center News, Faculty/Staff Spotlight
Dr. Francis T. Borkowski, App State’s chancellor from 1993 to 2003, died Jan. 19 at the age of 88. Under his leadership, the university strengthened academic and student success programs, expanded global education and helped establish the area as a cultural tourism...
October 31, 2024 • 1:15 pm | Center News, Faculty/Staff Spotlight
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Davis Hankins as the director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies (CJHPS).
July 19, 2024 • 3:08 pm | Center News, Event Highlights
The 22rd Annual Rosen Summer Symposium brought together educators and community members for a powerful week of learning on July 11-17, 2024.
March 25, 2024 • 2:35 pm | Center News
BOONE, N.C. — First launched in 2020-21, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies (CJHPS) recognizes students producing exceptional work in the areas of Judaic, Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies through its annual CJHPS Student Academic Honors...
January 25, 2024 • 3:07 pm | Center News, Faculty/Staff Spotlight
Dr. Chris Patti, an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and an Affiliate Faculty for the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, & Peace Studies, recently attended an event at the North Carolina Governor’s Mansion. During the event, he led a...
July 15, 2023 • 3:09 pm | Center News, Event Highlights
The 21st Annual Rosen Summer Symposium brought together educators and community members for a powerful week of learning on July 7-13, 2023.
February 17, 2023 • 12:42 pm | Center News
CJHPS Statement on Recent Antisemitic Events, Feb. 17 2023 Over the last ten days, a series of antisemitic acts have occurred on and off campus and on social media. It culminated with the draping of a Nazi flag on the Temple of the High Country sign. In response,...
January 26, 2023 • 3:41 pm | Center News, Event Highlights
January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is the day Auschwitz was liberated and in 2005 the UN made this day an international day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The UN urges every member state to “”honor...
January 25, 2023 • 9:15 am | Center News, Faculty/Staff Spotlight
For the first Who’s Who Wednesday of 2023, we’re featuring Dr. Barbara Zaitzow, professor of criminal justice in the Appalachian State Department of Government and Justice Studies (GJS) and a member of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies...