Jonathan Brent, Ph.D.

Dr. Jonathan Brent is an academic, author, and publisher, and a member of the Victims of Memorial Foundation’s Academic Council.. As a publisher, he is the Director of the Annals of Communismseries, which he founded in 1992. He is currently the Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature at Bard College and is also the CEO and Executive Director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City, Bard’s partner in the Bard-YIVO Institute for East European Jewish History and Culture. Brent is the author of Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia, Stalin’s Last Crime, which was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Financial Times, and Isaac Babel (forthcoming). He is the Editor of The Best of TriQuarterlyand A John Cage Reader. Brent has held editorial positions at Yale University Press, Northwestern University Press, FORMATIONS, and TriQuarterly. As Executive Editor at Yale in 1992, Brent founded the internationally acclaimed Annals of Communismseries. He has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, American Scholar, New Criterion, New Republic, New York Times, Commentary, and many other newspapers and journals. He received the Whiting Foundation Fellowship in 1977. Brent earned his B.A. at Columbia University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and has been a member of Bard’s faculty since 2004.