Biographical Summary

Amy Kerner is a historian of transnationalism and modern Latin America. Her current scholarly and curatorial projects focus on experiences of exile in relation to photography and state terror in the Southern Cone. Since completing her PhD in History at Brown University, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Frankel Institute for Jewish Studies and held the Wald Professorship of Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at the University of Texas, Dallas. Before joining the GHI as a Research Fellow in 2025, she was Curator of Jewish Culture at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Her work has been supported by the Posen Foundation, the NEH, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Language in Transit: Argentine Yiddish from Mass Migration to the Dirty War (forthcoming from Stanford University Press).