Executive DirectorUSC Shoah Foundation
Dr. Robert J. Williams is the Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Chair of the USC Shoah Foundation, UNESCO Chair on Antisemitism and Holocaust Research, and the Advisor to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
His work has led to revisions of EU policy on access to archives that relate to the Holocaust and other mass atrocities from Europe’s twentieth century, as well as stronger European measures in the fight against antisemitism. He regularly advises and has produced work for several intergovernmental organizations, foreign governments, and sectors of the US government.
His research specialties include German history, US and Russian cultural policy, and contemporary antisemitism. He recently published a coedited volume on antisemitism, The Routledge History of Antisemitism. Currently, he is writing a monograph on efforts to restore the reputations of persons and organizations complicit in the Holocaust.