Michael Marrus is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and a visiting fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford and the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University. During recent years he has concentrated on the history of European fascism and the Holocaust, about which he has taught at the University of Toronto and UCLA. He is the author of six books and many articles on these and related subjects. In collaboration with Robert Paxton he published Vichy France and the Jews in 1981, which received a National Jewish Book Award. His award-winning 1987 work, The Holocaust in History, has been translated into many languages and most recently appeared in Japanese. Michael Marrus' documentary history of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal has just been published in the Bedford Series in History and Culture of St. Martin's Press.
Ori Z. Soltes
Ori Z. Soltes is the Director and Curator of the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. and adjunct Assistant Professor of Fine Arts and Theology at Georgetown University and of History at the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, as well as a lecturer in the National and Resident Associate Programs of the Smithsonian Institution. Professor Soltes is the author of several dozen articles and essays on a wide range of topics, and the writer, director and narrator of seven documentary videos, including Tradition and Transformation, a 26-part, 13-hour-long work on the definition of Jewish art. He has varying degrees of working knowledge in some two dozen languages, and has lectured or taught throughout the United States, in the former Soviet Union, in Israel, Italy, France and Spain.
Dr. Kathy O'Dell
Kathy O'Dell is Assistant Professor of Art History and Theory in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Her book Contract with the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s will be published by University of Minnesota Press in 1998. She has written on contemporary art and performance for Artforum, Art in America, Art & Text, Arts, Lusitania, Performance Research, and TDR and is one of the co-founders/co-editors of Link: A Critical Journal on the Arts in Baltimore and the World. Most recently, Dr. O'Dell curated the retrospective exhibition "Kate Millett, Sculptor: The First 38 Years" for UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery.
David Yager
David Yager is Professor and Chairman of the Visual Arts Department at University of Maryland Baltimore County, as well as Executive Director of its Fine Arts Gallery, and Director of its Imaging Research Center. He serves on over a dozen of the University's committees including the President's Advisory Committee. His works are included in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He has received numerous grants throughout the years, including IBM and Apple Research Grants and has curated extensively.
Hollie Lavenstein
Hollie Lavenstein is an independent filmmaker working in Baltimore. Her most recent fiilm, Holy Water, won the Finalist Award at the 1996 Houston International Film Festival and has been screened on WTTW, Chicago's PBS station. Lavenstein's films have won awards and/or been screened at the 1995 Black Maria Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the San Francisco Poetry Film and Video Festival, and the Cleveland International Film Festival, among other venues, and have received funding from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Illinois Arts Council, and the University of Maryland System. Lavenstein is Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Alan Rutberg
Alan Rutberg is Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is an artist and video-maker who has exhibited his work in Hong Kong, Paris, San Francisco, New York City, and Baltimore. Rutberg is the recipient of several awards including an Individual Artist Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and Honorable Mention at the Judah Magnes Museum Jewish Video Festival.
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