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Member of the steering committeeSimone Lässig has been the director of the German HistoricalInstitute (GHI), Washington DC, since 2015. She is currently on leave from theUniversity of Braunschweig, where she holds a professorship in modern history,and from the directorship of the Georg Eckert Institute for InternationalTextbook Research. In 2009-2010, she was a visiting professor at St Antony’sCollege, Oxford. She is co-editor of the journal Geschichte und Gesellschaft and founded the Journal for Educational Media, Memory, and Society (JEMMS), whichshe edited until 2015. Her first book, a study of the campaign for electoralreform in Saxony, won the 1996 Horst Spring Prize for the best book in Saxonhistory. Her second book, a study of the embourgeoisement of German Jewry, wasawarded the German Historical Association’s biennial prize for best second bookin history (habilitation) in 2004.Her main fields of research are modern Jewish history, the history ofknowledge, educational media, digital history, and biography as a historicalgenre. Simone Lässig serves on the boards of several organizations and researchinstitutions, and is currently working on two research projects: a study of aGerman-Jewish family from the early nineteenth century to the present, and astudy on religion as an agent of change, preliminarily entitled “Jews, Middle Class Culture, and Social Transformation in Germany,1800-1860.”