Jewish Studies Program at Syracuse University

The Jewish Studies Program at Syracuse University is pleased to welcome Dr. Britt Tevis to the Department of History as the Phyllis Backer Chair in Jewish Studies.

A historian of American Jews, Dr. Tevis completed her PhD dissertation in 2016 at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Dr. Tevis is currently revising her book manuscript, _May It Displease the Court: Jewish Lawyers and the Democratization of American Law_. This study analyzes how Jewish lawyers working between the 1890s and 1930s challenged and consequently reshaped U.S. legal norms. In addition to the monograph, she has recently completed _Sanctioned Bigotry: A Documentary Reader of Antisemitism in the United States_.

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