Charles Asher Small

Dr. Charles Asher Small is the Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). He is also Visiting Professor at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. Charles received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, McGill University, Montreal; a M.Sc. in Urban Development Planning in Economics, Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London; and a Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil), St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.

Charles was the Koret Distinguished Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Charles completed post-doctorate research at the Groupement de recherche ethnicité et société, Université de Montréal. He was the VATAT Research Fellow (Ministry of Higher Education) at Ben Gurion University, Beersheva, and taught in departments of sociology and geography at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London; Tel Aviv University; and the Institute of Urban Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.  Charles was the founding Director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), the first interdisciplinary research center on antisemitism at a North American university. At Yale he taught in the Political Science Department and the Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics, and ran a post-doctorate and graduate studies fellowship program at YIISA. He was also an Associate Professor and the Director of Urban Studies at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU).

Charles has lectured internationally and worked as a consultant and policy advisor in North America, Europe, Southern Africa, and the Middle East. Charles has published articles and books including the six volumes of, Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity, published by ISGAP and Brill Press (2013); Social Theory: A Historical Analysis of Canadian Socio-Cultural Policies, “Race” and the “Other”: A Case Study of Social and Spatial Segregation in Montreal, Eleven International Publishers (2013); and The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective, published by ISGAP (2015). Charles specializes in social and cultural theory, globalization and national identity, socio-cultural policy, and racism(s) – including antisemitism. Charles is committed to creating scholarly programming and research on contemporary antisemitism at top tier universities internationally, and contemporary antisemitism studies as a recognized academic discipline.