Center News and Spotlights

The passing of our dear colleague, friend, and former Center director Prof. Rosemary Horowitz z’’l has everyone associated with the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies as well as those in the Appalachian State and broader Boone communities who …

The Minor in Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies at Appalachian State University is cooperating with the Holocaust Studies Program of Western Galilee College (WGC) to offer a first virtual class on “Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust” for ASU and WGC students in …

With the greatest sorrow, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies announces the passing of its former director Dr. Rosemary Horowitz z’’l. A member of Appalachian State’s faculty for more than a quarter century, Dr. Horowitz was highly-committed Holocaust …

In early May, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies honored Alexander Gilliatt (GJS/JHP) as the first recipient of the newly-introduced JHP Student Research Paper Prize. Gabe Atkinson (HIS/JHP) received an honorable mention. Faculty members working with the Center …

At the end of this term, the Peace and Genocide Education Club (PGEC) garnered another recognition by receiving the 2021 “Outside the Box” award from Appalachian State Club Council. The award recognized “an organization that continuously shows tremendous creativity and …

Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, the Leon Levine Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, just published a new co-edited collection on Jewish petitioning during the Shoah with Dr. Wolf Gruner, the Director of the USC …

During the July 4 weekend, the car of an Appalachian State University student was covered with swastikas and racist slurs. The assailant(s) scratched the hate speech and images into the side and back of the car. The student, who is …

Last year, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies introduced a new program that brings an established scholar and intellectual in JHPS to the Center, where the recipient will be in residence for the duration of a term, conduct …

Before the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, Center director Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan traveled to Germany to participate in an international conference on the role of the police during the Holocaust as well as one of the many initiatives to counter the …

In partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies has launched its first faculty development initiative and invites ASU faculty members with an interest and/or working in Jewish, Holocaust or Peace Studies …

The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies mourns the passing of Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz, a professor emerita of German literature at UNC Charlotte and frequent participant and speaker at Center events at ASU. Cernyak-Spatz, one of the very last …

Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, the Leon Levine Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, recently published a co-edited collection on Holocaust historiography with Dr. Juergen Matthaeus, the Director of Applied Research at the United …