Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Professor Veidlinger is the author, most recently, of "In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine," which won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for History. His previous books include "The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage," which won a National Jewish Book Award and the Barnard Hewitt Award for Theater Scholarship, and "Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire," which won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Scholarship and the J. I . Segal Prize. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from numerous agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. From 1999-2013, he taught at Indiana University, where he was Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies, Professor of History, and Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program. Veidlinger is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Center for Jewish History, the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and the Board of Directors of the Association for Jewish Studies. He is currently conducting research on anti-Jewish violence in Ukraine.