Michael Feldberg, PhD, is a widely published scholar of American immigrant, ethnic, and religious group history. He taught American History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, and at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He also directed the Criminal Justice Program at Boston University. Michael was executive director and director of research for the American Jewish Historical Society from 1991 to 2008, and since then has served as executive director of the George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom.

The author of several books, Feldberg is most recently a co-editor of Washington’s Rebuke to Bigotry: Reflections on George Washington’s Famous 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, RI. Michael’s professional experience includes directing The Men in the Middle (1980), a short documentary about the lives of Boston Police officers during the violent school busing crisis in that city; serving as a consultant to the multipart PBS documentary They Came for Good: The Jewish Experience in America (1997); and executive producer of a short documentary about Aaron Feuerstein that won a best in category award in 1999 from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

For over a decade, Michael has been President of The History Consultancy, through which he is engaged in the research and development of publications, exhibitions, grant proposals, and other activities that support outreach for public and academic historical programming. Michael received an A.B. in History from Cornell University and a PhD in History from the University of Rochester. Michael and his wife, Ruth, currently reside in Western Massachusetts.