Mitchell B. Hart received his Ph.D. in History from UCLA in 1994. He teaches courses on modern Jewish history, modern Germany, the history of racial thought, and anti-Semitism. He is the author of Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity (Stanford University Press, 2000), The Healthy Jew (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and has edited Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880-1940 (Brandeis, 2011) and Jewish Blood: Metaphor and Reality in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture (Routledge, 2009). He is co-editor, with Tony Michels, of the Cambridge History of Judaism, volume 8: The Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and On the Word of a Jew: Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust, co-edited with Nina Caputo (Indiana University Press, 2019).