Participant Info
- First Name
- Kyra
- Last Name
- Dezjot
- Country
- United States
- State
- CT
- kdezjot@fordham.edu
- Affiliation
- Fordham University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- American Jewish, childhood, camping
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- MA
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Kyra Dezjot is PhD candidate in Modern American History at Fordham University. She investigates American Jewish communities, antisemitism, and how the Holocaust as an event impacted these communities. Kyra has an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Kean University and undergraduate degrees in History and Secondary Education from Salve Regina University. Kyra Dezjot is a PhD Candidate in Modern American History at Fordham University. She investigates American Jewish communities in the interwar period, utilizing digital humanities tools to make primary sources accessible to scholars. Kyra has an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Kean University and undergraduate degrees in History and Secondary Education from Salve Regina University.She recently published an article in Perspectives on History, the AHA’s newsmagazine, on teaching the Holocaust from a person-centered approach.
- Recent Publications
“Bundles of Pain, Bound by Gender: Himpathy and Misogyny in A Bintel Brief”
Nursing Cleo, April 15th, 2026
Book Review: “With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism” by Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer
Journal of American Ethnic History, May 2026
“Teaching the Holocaust: As a Scholar, Educator, and a Jew.”
Perspectives on History, The American Historical Association May 2025
Book Review: “The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America,” by David Okrent
The New England Journal of History Spring 2024 Edition
Book Review: “Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America,” by Thomas Milan Konda
The New England Journal of History Spring 2022 Edition
Book Review: “A History of Twentieth-Century Germany,” by Ulrich Herbert
The New England Journal of History Spring 2021 Edition
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Genocide, Holocaust & Nazi Persecution, World War II
