Jeffrey Kopstein is Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. In his research, Professor Kopstein focuses on interethnic violence, voting patterns of minority groups, and anti-liberal tendencies in civil society, paying special attention to cases within European and Russian Jewish history. His most recent publications are “Deadly Communities: Local Political Milieus and the Persecution of Jews in Occupied Poland,” (with Jason Wittenberg in Comparative Political Studies, vol. 44, no. 5, May 2011, 259–283) and “Between Nationalization and Internationalization: Electoral Behavior in Interwar Poland” (with Jason Wittenberg in POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol.24, November 2011, pp.171–185). These interests are also central topics in Professor Kopstein’s courses, which have consisted for the past few years of “Democracy, Dictatorship, War, and Peace,” an introductory survey in the Department of Political Science, and “Introduction to Jewish Thought and Politics,” a gateway course in the Centre for Jewish Studies.