Shirli Gilbert is Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London. She is a historian of modern Jewish life, with particular interest in the Holocaust and its legacies; Jewish refugees in Africa; Jews, racism, and colonialism; and Jews in South Africa. She obtained her D. Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Before coming to UCL, she was Karten Professor of Modern History and Director of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/ non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. She is editor-in-chief of the journal Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry, with Adam Mendelsohn (University of Cape Town) and Avril Alba (University of Sydney).
