Marianne Hirsch

Marianne Hirsch is a William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a specialist in Holocaust studies. Her public dissent is grounded in her academic work on memory and her opposition to Israeli state violence and the siege on Gaza, which she has framed through the lens of historical memory and human rights. Her dissent is significant due to her scholarly expertise in genocide studies and her status as a leading figure in understanding how historical trauma informs contemporary political ethics. She has signed various collective statements with other Jewish scholars naming Israeli actions as settler-colonial in nature.