Leonard Hammer is the holder of the Lakin Chair for the Holocaust, Human Rights, and Comparative Genocide at the University of Arizona’s Center for Judaic Studies. He has written articles and books about cultural heritage protection, human rights, and international law. Leonard has worked for the Open Society Foundation to develop human rights programming in former USSR countries, and on a variety of human rights projects for NGOs around the world. Leonard also co-created the wholly online Human Rights Practice graduate degree at the University of Arizona in 2016-17, a project-based degree involving NGOs and guest lecturers from around the world.
Leonard is a recipient of the 2026 ISGAP Faculty Fellowship Training Program: Combatting Holocaust Distortion and Global Antisemitism.