David Patterson

“What History Can Teach Us: Patterns in Antisemitism,”

“Antisemitism from Hitler to Hamas,”

“Islamic Jihad and the Holocaust: From Hitler to Hamas,”

“Antisemitism from Medieval to Modern Times,”

“The Singularity of the Nazi Antisemitism,”

EDITORIAL SERVICES AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Senior Research Fellow for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy
• Commissioner for the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission
• Member of the Executive Board of Academic Advisors, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy 
• Editorial Board member for the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism
• Series Editor for Antisemitism Studies, Academic Studies Press
• Grant evaluator for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
•  Member of the Scholars’ Platform, Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, Cambridge, England
•  Member of the Weinstein Holocaust Symposium, Wroxton, England
•  Member of the Executive Committee for the International Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust
•  Consultant for the Philadelphia Center on Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
•  Member of Readers’ Committee for the Elie Wiesel Essay on Ethics Award
•  Facing History and Ourselves Scholar in Residence
•  Editorial Board for the Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
•  Grant reviewer for National Endowment for the Humanities
•  Reader for: University of Toronto Press, University of Alabama Press, Wipf & Stock Publishers, Berghan Publishers, Lexington Books, SUNY Press, Rutgers 
  University Press, Purdue University Press, Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan; University of Tennessee Press, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Wayne State University Press; University of Missouri Press; Syracuse University Press; Central European University Press, Budapest, Hungary; University of Washington Press; St. Martin’s Press; University Press of Virginia; University Press of Kentucky; The Russian Review; PMLA; Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Christianity and Literature; Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature; Signs; Shofar; Religion and Literature, Southern Jewish History; Associate Editor of Russian, South Central Review

DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS

• 2020    
  • Invited to be a member of The Holocaust Literature and Representation Forum of the Finkler Institute at Bar-Ilan University 
  •  Nominated for the President’s Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Teaching
    
    
• 2019    
  • Nominated for the President’s Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Teaching
    
    
    
• 2018    
  • Received the Eternal Flame Award from the Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches for contributions to Holocaust studies

• 2017    
  • Invited to serve on the Board of Directors for Truth in Textbooks 
  • Invited to be the Betsy Hotel’s Writer-in-Residence for the 2017 meeting of the Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Association
  • Invited to serve on the International Advisory Board for a worldwide Holocaust  Memorial program honoring Elie Wiesel and Leib Glantz 
     
• 2016    
  • Invited to serve on the Content Review Committee for the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
  • Selected as a Fellow in the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism, Oxford University
    
    
• 2014    
  • Called to testify as expert witness in the Farhud reparations hearings in Israeli courts

• 2009    
  • Winner of the University of Memphis Distinguished Research in the Humanities Award
  • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Emil L. Fackenheim: A Jewish Philosopher’s Response to the Holocaust
     
• 2008 
  •  Recipient of the Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Award
  •  Selected as Scholar-in—Residence for the American Library Association Let ’s Talk About It program, University of Memphis
•  2007 
  •  Appointed to the Facing History International Scholars Board of Advisors
•  2006 
  •  Appointed to the Board of Directors for the Tennessee Holocaust Commission
•  2005 
  •  Appointed to Hadassah’s Academic Advisory Board and Curriculum Watch
  •  Distinguished Teaching Award Nominee
•  2004 
  •  Awarded Arts and Sciences Research Grant for work on Open Wounds
  •  University College Advising Award
•  2003 
  •  ALA Award for Outstanding Reference Source 2003 for Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature
  •  University College Distinguished Faculty Award
•  2002 
  •  Invited to Membership in The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
  •  Booklist Editors’ Choice Award 2002 for Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature
•  2000 
  •  Winner of the Koach Award for Adult Education, Beth Sholom Synagogue
  •  Winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought and Philosophy (for Along the Edge of Annihilation)
•  1999 
  •  Selected by the Warren Center and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission for the Colloquium on the Holocaust, Vanderbilt University
•  1997 
  •  Awarded Arts and Sciences Research Grant for work on The Black Book
  •  Named honorary member of Alpha Lambda Delta National Honors Society
  •  Named honorary member of the Golden Key Honor Society
  •  Selected as Honored Member of Strathrnore’s Who’s Who Registry
•  1996 
  •  Awarded College of Arts and Sciences Certificate of Faculty Excellence
  •  Selected as a Fellow of the Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University
  •  In Choice the American Library Association named Exile as one of the best academic books of 1995
  •  Appointed to Resource Advisory Panel for Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
  •  Awarded Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Research Grant for From Kant to the Camps: German Philosophy and the Holocaust
•  1995 
  •  Selected as Russell Kirk Lecturer, "The Permanent Things," Heritage Foundation
  •  Selected as NEH Visiting Scholar, Southern Oregon State College
  •  Selected as Pepperdine University Guest Professor
•  1994 
  •  Awarded the Southem Books Competition Award of Excellence, 1992-1993, for The Gospel According to Tolstoy
  •  Awarded Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Research Grant for Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of LW in the Holocaust Diary
  •  Awarded So. Central MLA Research Grant for Along the Edge of Annihilation
  •  Awarded NEH Summer Stipend for Along the Edge of Annihilation
  •  Awarded A&S Research Grant for work on Holocaust in Berlin
•  1992 
  •  Awarded NEH Grant for research in Israel on Sun Turned to Darkness: Memory and Recovery in the Holocaust Memoir
  •  Awarded Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Research Grant for Sun Turned to Darkness
•  1991 
  •  Selected for inclusion in Who 's Who in Foreign Criticism on Russian Literature (Moscow: 1nstitutMirovoi Literatury, 1992)
•  1990 
  •  Awarded Arts and Sciences Board of Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship
  •  American Council of Leamed Societies Grant for travel to Cambridge, England
  •  Southwestem Bell Faculty Fellowship Award for The Shriek of Silence: A Phenomenology ofthe Holocaust Novel
  •  Awarded University of Oregon Arts and Sciences Alumni Achievement Award
•  1989 
  •  Awarded Burlington Northern Achievement Award for Scholarship and Teaching
  •  In Choice the American Library Association named The Ajjirming Flame as one of the best academic books of 1988
  •  Appointed Honor Lecturer for Mid—America State Universities Association
•  1988 
  •  Finalist for Fred Jones Foundation Outstanding Teacher Award
  •  Grant from Pergamon Press to participate in the Intemational Conference "Remembering for the Future," 10-13 July 1988, Oxford and London
•  1987 
  •  First Runner-up for 1987 M/MLA Book Award for Literature and Spirit
•  1986 
  •  Research Grant from South Central Modem Language Assoc. for study in Geneva
•  1984 
  •  NEH Summer Seminar Grant for study at Harvard University

SERVICE ACTIVITY

•  Oklahoma State University 
  •  Departmental Advisor
  •  Graduate Faculty Nomination Committee
  •  Departmental Personnel Committee (Chair)
  •  Departmental Curriculum Committee
  •  College General Education Committee
  •  Honors Thesis Advisor
  •  Program Review Committee
  •  Faculty Representatives Award Committee (Chair)
  •  Departmental Grants Coordinator
  •  A&S Curriculum Committee
  •  Treasurer, Oklahoma Association of Scholars
  •  Coordinator for Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program
  •  Coordinator of Russian Section
  •  Co-Director of Workshop on Cultural and Linguistic Differences
  •  A&S Humanities Endowed Professorship Committee
  •  University Scholarship Committee for Study Abroad
  •  NEH Stipend Committee
  •  Scholarly Excellence Award Committee
  •  Departmental Policy Handbook Committee (Chair)
  •  Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee
  •  Russian Club Advisor
•  The University of Memphis 
  •  CAS Host for Great Conversations
  •  CAS Humanities Representative to the University Council
  •  University Council for Graduate Studies
  •  College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee
  •  Chair of the Sociology Department Chair Search Committee
  •  Chair of the English Department Chair Evaluation Committee
  •  CAS Communication Group
  •  A&S Dean’s Advisory Council
  •  Scholarships Coordinator Search Committee (Chair)
  •  Recruitment Task Force Committee
  •  Who’s Who Committee
  •  Student Research Symposium Judge
  •  Israel at 50 Committee (Co—Chair)
  •  Search Committee for Executive Director of International Programs
  •  Orr Humanities Center Planning Committee
  •  University College Special Projects Award Committee
  •  Enrollment Management Council Retention Committee
  •  Jewish Student Union Faculty Advisor
  •  President’s Task Force on Academic Excellence and Character Development
  •  General Education Committee
  •  University College Faculty Council
  •  Project Unity Planning Committee
  •  Chair, Bomblum Judaic Studies Faculty Advisory Council
  •  RiverPac Faculty Advisor
  •  Faculty Senate
  •  University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
  •  Marcus Orr Lecture Series Committee
  •  Alma Bucovaz Urban Service Award Selection Committee
  •  Co-Director, Orr Humanities Center’s Great Books Seminars
•  Professional and Community Activity 
  •  Consultant to the Philadelphia Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  •  Member of the Weinstein Symposium on the Holocaust
  •  Advisory Board for the Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust
  •  Scholars’ Platform for the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, Cambridge, England
  •  Co-Editor-in-Chief for the U of Washington Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies (
  •  Facing History Intemational Board of Scholars
  •  Memphis Holocaust Memorial Committee
  •  Tennessee Holocaust Commission Board of Directors
  •  Belz Museum Board
  •  Consultant for the Belz Museum Judaica Collection
  •  Memphis Holocaust Center Planning Committee
  •  Jewish Historical Society Board Member
  •  Biblical Life Center Advisory Board
  •  Jewish Culture Experience Committee
  •  Association for Jewish Studies Membership Committee
  •  Beth Sholom Synagogue Board
  •  Bomblum Solomon Schechter School Board
  •  Chair of Adult Education Committee, Beth Sholom Synagogue
  •  College Israel Recruitment Committee
  •  Governor’s Tennessee-Israel Cooperation Committee
  •  Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust Advisory Board
  •  Jewish Student Union Board
  •  B’nai B’rith Board
  •  Jewish Book Festival Committee
  •  Vice President for Programming, Jewish Historical Society
  •  Yom HaShoah Committee, Memphis Jewish Federation
  •  Southem Jewish Historical Society Editorial Board
  •  Southern Jewish Historical Society Bomblum Award Committee
  •  President of the Memphis Jewish Historical Society