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 "Antisemitism on College Campuses: What Do We Know? What Do We Do?”

Sunday, March 29, 2026 @ 12pm Eastern

 

Leonard Saxe, Ph.D. is Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Social Policy at Brandeis University. For more than two decades, he served as Director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and Steinhardt Social Research Institute; as well, he has served as Director of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program. He is a social psychologist with broad interests in the application of social science to policy problems. His current work focuses on antisemitism, engagement with Israel, and issues of Jewish identity. Saxe’s research on antisemitism is designed to inform policy and programs to address anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred. Among his publications, he is the co-author of books about Birthright Israel and Jewish summer camping. In earlier phases of his career, he led major research programs on mental health issues and substance abuse. At Brandeis, he has taught MA and PhD courses in research methods, survey research and evaluation; currently, he teaches an undergraduate course on contemporary antisemitism. He has been a Congressional Science Fellow (for the US Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment) and a Fulbright Professor at the University of Haifa. In 1989, he received the American Psychological Association’s award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (early career). In 2012, he received the Association for the Scientific Study of Jewry’s Sklare Award, for his lifetime contributions to the understanding of Jewish life.

Graham Wright, Ph.D. is an associate research professor at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University.

At the Cohen Center he helps direct a long-running program of research exploring social divisions and prejudice, including antisemitism, on US college campuses and has published numerous reports and academic articles exploring the dynamics of contemporary antisemitism, and American Jews’ relationship to Israel. His other work investigates the complex intersection between attitudes and identities in American politics and the role of political dialogue in democratic governance. At the Heller school he teaches classes in statistics and quantitative methods.  He is the author of Persuasion, Integration, and Deliberative Democracy: The Will of the Whole (Routledge 2025).