Mendel

Kranz

Mendel Kranz is the inaugural Ross-Silk-Lowenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at the Katz Center. He focuses on issues of modern Jewish history and thought, postcolonial studies, and religious studies. His current book project, The Postcolonial Jewish Question: Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia in Postwar France interrogates how Jewish marginalization and antisemitism intersected with the histories of colonialism and Islamophobia, beginning with the struggles for decolonization in the 1950s through the end of the century. His research has appeared in a variety of publications, and he is a recipient of multiple grants that allowed him to conduct extensive research in France.

Kranz received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School