Nick Underwood
Associate Professor and Raddock Chair for Holocaust Studies
Areas of Expertise
- Modern European Jewish History
- Holocaust History
- Yiddish History and Cultural Studies
- Modern French History
Email:
nunderwood@fau.edu
Phone:
561-297-3840
Nick Underwood is an Associate Professor of History and holds the Raddock
Family Chair for Holocaust Studies. Underwood specializes in twentieth century European Jewish history, with a focus on Yiddish culture and Yiddish-speaking immigrant Jews in France. He is author of Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France (Indiana University Press, 2022), which was named a Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award in 2023.
He is also a co-editor (with Meredith Scott) of the edited volume Jewish Ideas of France:
Migration, Diaspora, and Empire (Routledge, 2025). He is currently working on two new book
projects, "Jewish Migration, Yiddish Culture, and the Reconstruction of Post-Holocaust France,
1944-1965” and “Community Development as Antifascism: The Rue Amelot and Jewish
Resistance in Vichy and Nazi Occupied France.” In addition to these book publications, he has
co-edited special issues of journals on topics ranging from Yiddish theatre, Jewish urban
histories, and the cultures of global antifascism. His work has also been published in a number of
peer reviewed journals, including Archives Juives, Contemporary French Civilization, East
European Jewish Affairs, French Politics, Culture & Society, Jewish Culture and History, Jewish
Social Studies, Journal of Jewish Identities, Theatre Survey, and Urban History as well as in
several edited volumes.
Underwood’s research has been supported by fellowships from the American Philosophical
Society, the Idaho Humanities Council, Brandeis University’s Hadassah-Brandeis Institute,
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern
University, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, Western Society for French History
as well as a Fordham University-New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship and
the Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship in East European Jewish Arts, Music, and Theatre from
the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Simon
Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University. During the 2026-2027
academic year, he was awarded a Fulbright US Scholar Award to be in residence at the
University of Warsaw in Poland.
He has also served professional associations in executive roles. He recently served as president of the Western Society for French History and currently serves as the vice president for program for the Association of Jewish Studies.
Before coming to Vlog, he was an Assistant Professor of History at The College of Idaho where
he held the Berger-Neilsen Chair in Judaic Studies.
Curriculum Vitae (Available upon request)