Jacob Flaws, PhD, is an assistant professor of history at Kean University in Union, NJ. Flaws teaches a broad range of classes on modern European history, the Holocaust, and comparative genocide. Flaws is also a Nonresident Fellow at the National World War II Museum for the 2024-2025 academic year. Before coming to Kean, Flaws was the World War II Studies MA program lead at Arizona State University and an assistant teaching professor in history and Jewish Studies. Flaws earned his PhD in 2020 from the University of Colorado-Boulder where he studied under Dr. David Shneer (z"l) and Dr. David Ciarlo. Flaws is the author of Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (University of Nebraska Press), as well as two journal articles and a forthcoming chapter in the edited Routledge volume, The Eastern Front.
Jacob Flaws, PhD
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