Our Founding Director
Dr. Catherine Chatterley
Dr. Chatterley established CISA in the summer of 2010, recruiting leading scholars to its Academic Council and inviting Professor Elie Wiesel to be
CISA’s Honorary Chairman.
A respected historian of Antisemitism and the Holocaust, Dr. Chatterley
trained as a cultural and intellectual historian at The University of Chicago,
in the fields of modern Jewish history (with Moishe Postone), modern
German, and central European history (with Michael Geyer). She has
taught at the Universities of Manitoba and Winnipeg for the last ten years.
Her first book, based upon her doctoral dissertation entitled Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz, is published by Syracuse University Press in their celebrated Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust Series (edited by Steven T. Katz) and is a 2011 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in the category of Modern Jewish Thought and Experience.
From 2009-2011, Dr. Chatterley held a prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Research Fellowship at the University of Manitoba, which funded the research for a second book entitled The Antisemitic Imagination. She is an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Manitoba.
Catherine was born and raised in Winnipeg and completed a B.A. in European History at the University
of Manitoba, where she studied with Professor Lionel Steiman. Today, she teaches the course launched
by him in 1987 (History of Antisemitism and the Holocaust) to a new generation of young students.
Between Manitoba and Chicago, Catherine spent two years in Montreal in a Masters program at Concordia University under the guidance of Professor Frederick Krantz, who is also the Founding Director of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research (CIJR). There, she was a member of the Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies (MIGS), founded by Professors Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn.
Please visit her website: http://www.catherinechatterley.com
Dr. Chatterley established CISA in the summer of 2010, recruiting leading scholars to its Academic Council and inviting Professor Elie Wiesel to be
CISA’s Honorary Chairman.
A respected historian of Antisemitism and the Holocaust, Dr. Chatterley
trained as a cultural and intellectual historian at The University of Chicago,
in the fields of modern Jewish history (with Moishe Postone), modern
German, and central European history (with Michael Geyer). She has
taught at the Universities of Manitoba and Winnipeg for the last ten years.
Her first book, based upon her doctoral dissertation entitled Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz, is published by Syracuse University Press in their celebrated Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust Series (edited by Steven T. Katz) and is a 2011 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in the category of Modern Jewish Thought and Experience.
From 2009-2011, Dr. Chatterley held a prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Research Fellowship at the University of Manitoba, which funded the research for a second book entitled The Antisemitic Imagination. She is an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Manitoba.
Catherine was born and raised in Winnipeg and completed a B.A. in European History at the University
of Manitoba, where she studied with Professor Lionel Steiman. Today, she teaches the course launched
by him in 1987 (History of Antisemitism and the Holocaust) to a new generation of young students.
Between Manitoba and Chicago, Catherine spent two years in Montreal in a Masters program at Concordia University under the guidance of Professor Frederick Krantz, who is also the Founding Director of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research (CIJR). There, she was a member of the Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies (MIGS), founded by Professors Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn.
Please visit her website: http://www.catherinechatterley.com
Director's Log
2011-2012 Academic Year
September 2011
“Europe’s Gift to the Conflict: Contemporary Antisemitism,” CJA Top Donors Evening, September 19, 2011.
“Islamophobia and Antisemitism,” Arab Jewish Dialogue, September 27, 2011
November 2011
“Denial, Inversion, Repetition: Using the Holocaust Against Israel,” Combating the Delegitimation of Israel Conference, Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, Montreal, November 6, 2011
“Contemporary Antisemitism,” Gwen Secter Living Centre, JCFS Holocaust Survivors Group, November 24, 2011
February 2012
“The History of IAW,” Herzlia Synagogue, Winnipeg, February 2012
March 2012
“Blood and Belonging: Christian Antisemitic Themes in Anti-Israel Discourse," Ideological Sources of Campus Antisemitism, Indiana University at Bloomington, March 2012
May 2012
"Creating a More Humane Future: Uprooting Antisemitism Through Scholarship and Education," Women’s Endowment Fund Lecture, Jewish Foundation of MB, May 2012
CIJA Presentation, Toronto and Montreal, May 2012
June 2012
"Racist Antisemitism," Gwen Secter Lunch and Learn Series, June 2012
2010-2011 Academic Year
November 2010
“Campus Antisemitism”, Expert’s Forum, Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combatting Antisemitism (ICCA), November 7-9, 2010.
December 2010
“History of Antisemitism,” Arab Jewish Dialogue, Winnipeg, December 14, 2010.
See national coverage here
“Erasure--Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Progressive Universalism: The Canadian Museum for Human
Rights as Microcosm,” Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Annual Meeting, Boston, December 19-21, 2010.
January 2011
“The Antisemitic Imagination,” University of Manitoba, January 13, 2011 (Audio of Lecture)
February 2011
“Classic and Contemporary Antisemitism,” Advocates for Civil Liberties Conference, Toronto, February
15-17, 2011. (Audio of lecture & National Post Article)
April 2011
“Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives,” Indiana University, April 2-6, 2011.
September 2011
“Europe’s Gift to the Conflict: Contemporary Antisemitism,” CJA Top Donors Evening, September 19, 2011.
“Islamophobia and Antisemitism,” Arab Jewish Dialogue, September 27, 2011
November 2011
“Denial, Inversion, Repetition: Using the Holocaust Against Israel,” Combating the Delegitimation of Israel Conference, Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, Montreal, November 6, 2011
“Contemporary Antisemitism,” Gwen Secter Living Centre, JCFS Holocaust Survivors Group, November 24, 2011
February 2012
“The History of IAW,” Herzlia Synagogue, Winnipeg, February 2012
March 2012
“Blood and Belonging: Christian Antisemitic Themes in Anti-Israel Discourse," Ideological Sources of Campus Antisemitism, Indiana University at Bloomington, March 2012
May 2012
"Creating a More Humane Future: Uprooting Antisemitism Through Scholarship and Education," Women’s Endowment Fund Lecture, Jewish Foundation of MB, May 2012
CIJA Presentation, Toronto and Montreal, May 2012
June 2012
"Racist Antisemitism," Gwen Secter Lunch and Learn Series, June 2012
2010-2011 Academic Year
November 2010
“Campus Antisemitism”, Expert’s Forum, Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combatting Antisemitism (ICCA), November 7-9, 2010.
December 2010
“History of Antisemitism,” Arab Jewish Dialogue, Winnipeg, December 14, 2010.
See national coverage here
“Erasure--Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Progressive Universalism: The Canadian Museum for Human
Rights as Microcosm,” Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Annual Meeting, Boston, December 19-21, 2010.
January 2011
“The Antisemitic Imagination,” University of Manitoba, January 13, 2011 (Audio of Lecture)
February 2011
“Classic and Contemporary Antisemitism,” Advocates for Civil Liberties Conference, Toronto, February
15-17, 2011. (Audio of lecture & National Post Article)
April 2011
“Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives,” Indiana University, April 2-6, 2011.