Board & Staff

SPME’s Board of Directors is comprised of an experienced mix of professors from the most prestigious universities and colleges as well as members of other organizations. Their breadth of expertise and perspectives has proven invaluable as SPME has grown and expanded across the country and overseas.

Board of Directors

Mark T. Clark, PhD
President
California State University, USA
(2021 - Present)
Lauri B. Regan, JD
Vice President/ Treasurer
New York, USA
(2014 - Present)
Elvira Groezinger, DPhil
Secretary
Germany
(2017 - Present)
Robert Lloyd, PhD
Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA
(2023 - Present)
Joseph M. Skelly, PhD
College of Mount Saint Vincent, New York City, USA
(2023 - Present)
Karlgeorg Raimund Krüger, MD
Germany
(2020 - Present)
Donna Robinson Divine, PhD
Smith College, USA
(2016 - Present)
Richard Landes, PhD
Boston University, USA
(2014 - Present)
Charles Jacobs, EdD
Boston, USA
(2013 - Present)
Richard L. Cravatts, PhD
Florida, USA
(2011 - Present)
David Menashri, PhD
Tel Aviv University, Israel
(2009 - Present)
Leila Beckwith, PhD
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
(2006 - Present)
John R. Cohn, MD
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
(2005 - Present)

Staff

Asaf Romirowsky, PhD
Executive Director
SPME
(2011 - Present)
Alex Joffe, PhD
BDS Monitor Editor
SPME
(2013 - Present)

Past Board Members

Ralf R. Schumann, MD, PhD
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
(2011 - 2022)
Jonathan Adelman, PhD*
University of Denver, USA
(2013 - 2020)
Miriam F. Elman, PhD
Syracuse University, USA
(2017 - 2020)
Philip Carl Salzman, PhD
SPME Past President | McGill University, Canada
(2016 - 2023)
Brian O’Connor
Boston, USA
(2013 -2016)
Shlomo Dubnov, PhD
University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA
(2011 - 2014)
Joel Fishman, PhD
Jerusalem Institute for Public Affairs, Israel
(2011 - 2013)
Samuel Edelman, PhD
Past Executive Director
(2009 - 2011)
Kenneth L. Marcus, JD
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, USA
(2009 - 2013)
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
(2009 - 2013)
Barry Rubin, PhD*
Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Israel
(2007 - 2013)
Awi Federgruen, DSc
Columbia University, USA
(2007 - 2013)
Brigitte Bailer, PhD
Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, Austria
(2007 - 2009)
Ernest Sternberg, PhD
University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA
(2006 - 2013)
Matthias Küentzel, PhD
Political Scientist and Author, Germany
(2006 - 2011)
Phyllis Chesler, PhD
City University of New York Staten Island, USA
(2005 - 2007)
Steven M. Albert, PhD, MPH
University of Pittsburgh, USA
(2005 - 2013)
Peter J. Haas, PhD
SPME Past President | Case Western Reserve University, USA
(2003 - 2013)
Allan Lipton, MD
Penn State College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, USA
(2003 - 2006)
Rabbi Ilana Rosansky
Salem State University, Temple Shalom, USA
(2003 - 2004)
Stanley Dubinsky, PhD
University of South Carolina, USA
(2002 - 2013)
Ruth Lichtenberg-Contreras, PhD
Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria
(2002 - 2013)
Efraim Karsh, PhD
Kings College London, UK
(2002 - 2011)
Judith S. Jacobson, DrPh
SPME Co-Founder | Columbia University, USA
(2002 - 2013)
Rev. India E. Garnett, M. Div
United Church of Christ, USA
(2002 - 2013)
Edward S. Beck, EdD
SPME Co-Founder and President Emeritus | Walden University
(2002 - 2009)
Robert S. Mirin, Esq *
Harrisburg, USA
(2002 - 2009)
Gerald M. Steinberg, PhD
Bar Ilan University, Israel
(2002 - 2007)
Nidra Poller
France
(2002 - 2006)
Patricia Jennings, PhD
University of California Davis (UCD), USA
(2002 - 2004)
Peter Gomori, PhD
St. Francis College, USA
(2002 - 2004)
Yigal Levin, PhD
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
(2002 - 2004)
David Goldman, JD
Amper, Mattia and Politziner, CPA's Inc., USA
(2002 - 2003)
Charles Isbell, PhD
Louisiana State University, USA
(2002 - 2003)
Frederick Krantz, PhD
Concordia University. Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, Canada
(2002 - 2003)
Moshe Ma’oz, PhD
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
(2002 - 2003)
Daniel Pipes, PhD
Middle East Forum, USA
(2002 - 2003)

* Deceased