Maurice Samuels

Maurice Samuels is the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale University, chair of the program in Judaic Studies, and founder and director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of three books: The Betrayal of the Duchess; The Spectacular Past, which won the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize; and Inventing the Israelite, which received the MLA’s Scaglione Prize. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015.