Oren Baruch Stier, Ph.D. is Assistant Vice Provost for Combating Antisemitism and Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University in Miami, FL. He also serves as Director of the Global Jewish Studies Program in the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs and directs FIU’s Holocaust & Genocide Studies Program, which facilitates teaching and learning about the Holocaust and other genocides through a certificate program, teacher training, community outreach, faculty research, and more.
Stier is author of two books, Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust (2003) and Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory (2015) and co-editor of Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place (2006). His research addresses Holocaust education, Jewish memory, Holocaust testimony, and the material and visual culture of the Shoah and its remembrance. Stier has been a Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies research fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and was the Guest Curator for a Wolfsonian–FIU teaching gallery exhibition, “Race and Visual Culture under National Socialism.” Most recently, he guest-edited, with Laura Levitt, a special issue of MAVCOR Journal, “Tending to Holocaust Objects: Interrogating the Sacred.”
In 2020-21 Stier served on a Florida Department of Education expert group writing new statewide standards for Holocaust education. He regularly leads single- and multi-day workshops to educators on teaching the Holocaust.
Dr. Stier is a recipient of the 2026 ISGAP Faculty Fellowship Training Program: Combatting Holocaust Distortion and Global Antisemitism.