Jeffrey Kopstein, Senior Fellow at the New War Research Consortium, is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. In his research, Professor Kopstein focuses on political violence, voting patterns of minority groups, and anti-liberal tendencies in civil society, paying special attention to cases within European and Russian Jewish history. These interests are central topics in his latest books, Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2018) and Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust (Cornell University Press, 2023).