Geoffrey Levin

Geoffrey Levin is assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies at Emory University.

As a Koch History Centre Fellow, he will be working on his second book project, America’s Jews of Islam: Middle Eastern Jews and American Jewish Politics, which will explore American Jewish discourses about and engagement with Jews in the Middle East and North Africa since the nineteenth century.

Dr Levin’s first book, Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 (Yale University Press, 2023), won the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Book Prize and the SERMEISS Book Award in Middle Eastern Studies. Dr Levin earned his doctorate from New York University in 2019 and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University before joining Emory’s faculty in 2020.