Profile
Leah Garrett is the director of the Jewish Studies Center and director of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
She has published five books on literature and history including her most recent, X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two (Mariner Books (Harper Collins) and Chatto (Penguin)), 2022. Her fourth book, Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel, won the 2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for modern Jewish history and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.
Dr. Garrett has also been the recipient of multiple fellowships including a Fulbright Fellowship to Tel Aviv University and a ACLS Junior Faculty Mellon.