Douglas Greenberg

Dr. Douglas Greenberg "is a Professor of History at the University of Southern California and the Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. Established in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, the Shoah Foundation was charged with the mission of collecting 50,000 oral histories from survivors of the Holocaust. Under the guidance of Dr. Greenberg it has surpassed this goal and the current total is over 52,000 histories in thirty-two languages. Dr. Greenberg was originally an historian of early American law. Previously, he was President and CEO of the Chicago Historical Society and Vice President of the American Council of Learned Societies. He has published several books and numerous articles on aspects of American history, the Holocaust and genocide, the impact of technology on scholarship, and public history."