Moskowitz, Golan

Golan Moskowitz joins the Jewish Studies Department as assistant professor and Catherine and Henry J. Gaisman Faculty Fellow. He is a literary scholar, cultural historian and visual artist with a PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. Moskowitz has worked as a research consultant and editor for the Anti-Defamation League and as assistant to the executive director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry. He has published on gendered and queer approaches to the study of post-Holocaust family and memory. His forthcoming book, Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (Stanford University Press, 2020), situates Sendak's life and work within discourses of queer and Jewish studies and their intersections. Moskowitz has taught courses at Smith College, Tufts University and the University of Toronto, where he was also the Ray D. Wolfe Postdoctoral Fellow from 2019-2020.