Joshua Leifer is a PhD candidate in the Department of History, where his research sits at the nexus of modern intellectual history, modern Jewish politics, and Holocaust memory. His dissertation project examines the role of memory politics in the consolidation and subsequent disintegration of the post-Cold War liberal order.
He is also a journalist whose essays and reporting have been published in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and elsewhere. A member of the editorial board at Dissent, he previously worked as an editor at +972 Magazine. His first book, Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life (Dutton 2024), won a National Jewish Book Award in 2025.