Leo Spitzer

LEO SPITZER is the K. T. Vernon Professor of History Emeritus and Research Professor at Dartmouth College. He is also a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University and a Research Fellow at the Wallenberg Center, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, South Africa. The recipient of numerous fellowships, including a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and a National Humanities Center award, he writes on assimilationism, exclusion, and reactions to colonialism, as well as on Jewish refugee memory and its transmission. His most recent book, co-authored with Marianne Hirsch, is Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory. He is also the author of Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism (Hill & Wang, 1998); The Creoles of Sierra Leone: Responses to Colonialism (Wisconsin, 1974); and co-editor, with Mieke Bal and Jonathan Crewe, of Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present (UPNE, 1999). He is currently working with Marianne Hirsch on a book on school photos.