Nick Underwood
Associate Professor and Raddock Chair for Holocaust Studies
Areas of Expertise
- Modern European Jewish History
- Holocaust History
- Yiddish History and Cultural Studies听
- Modern French History
Email:
nunderwood@fau.edu
Phone:
听561-297-3840
Nick Underwood is an Associate Professor of History and holds the Raddock听
Family Chair for Holocaust Studies. Underwood specializes in twentieth century European Jewish history, with a focus on Yiddish culture and Yiddish-speaking immigrant Jews in France. He is author of Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France (Indiana University Press, 2022), which was named a Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award in 2023.听
He is also a co-editor (with Meredith Scott) of the edited volume Jewish Ideas of France:听
Migration, Diaspora, and Empire (Routledge, 2025). He is currently working on two new book听
projects, "Jewish Migration, Yiddish Culture, and the Reconstruction of Post-Holocaust France,听
1944-1965鈥 and 鈥Community Development as Antifascism: The Rue Amelot and Jewish听
Resistance in Vichy and Nazi Occupied France.鈥 In addition to these book publications, he has听
co-edited special issues of journals on topics ranging from Yiddish theatre, Jewish urban听
histories, and the cultures of global antifascism. His work has also been published in a number of听
peer reviewed journals, including Archives Juives, Contemporary French Civilization, East 听
European Jewish Affairs, French Politics, Culture & Society, Jewish Culture and History, Jewish 听
Social Studies, Journal of Jewish Identities, Theatre Survey, and Urban History as well as in 听
several edited volumes. 听
Underwood鈥檚 research has been supported by fellowships from the American Philosophical听
Society, the Idaho Humanities Council, Brandeis University鈥檚 Hadassah-Brandeis Institute,听
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern听
University, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, Western Society for French History听
听as well as a Fordham University-New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship and 听
the Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship in East European Jewish Arts, Music, and Theatre from听
the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Simon听
Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at 听Leipzig University. During the 2026-2027听
academic year, he was awarded a Fulbright US Scholar Award to be in residence at the 听
University of Warsaw in Poland.听
He has also served professional associations in executive roles.听 He recently served as president of the Western Society for French History and currently serves as the vice president for program for the Association of Jewish Studies.
Before coming to 国产自拍, he was an Assistant Professor of History at The College of Idaho where听
he held the Berger-Neilsen Chair in Judaic Studies.听
Curriculum Vitae (Available upon request)