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Dr Suzanne Schneider

Visiting Fellow

Historian, writer, educator & Deputy Director, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

PhD, MA (Columbia University); BA (Columbia College, Columbia)

Suzanne Schneider is a historian, writer, and educator. She received her PhD from the Department of Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, and from 2015-2023 served as Deputy Director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, where she remains a core faculty member. Suzanne is the author of Mandatory Separation: Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine (Stanford: 2018) and The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism (Verso: 2021). A leading expert on the Global Right, Suzanne speaks and writes frequently about the intellectual and institutional networks that link far-right political actors in Europe, Israel, and the United States. Her writing has appeared in The New Republic, New York Review of Books, New Statesman, Mother Jones, The New European, The Washington Post, Jewish Currents, Foreign Policy, n+1, and Aeon among other outlets.

While at Kellogg, Suzanne is working on a new book titled Masters of the Future: The Politics of Risk. She is the lead organizer of Risk Reconsidered, an interdisciplinary working group that brings together scholars working in the humanities, natural and social sciences to explore risk as a form of social and political rationality. She is also the co-editor (with Jonathan Michie) of a special issue of International Review of Applied Economics on the subject of “Risk, Uncertainty, and Democracy.”