Joanna Beata Michlic is an assistant professor in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies program at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She was a visiting scholar in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University in 2003-5 and is the coeditor of "The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland" and the author of "Coming to Terms with the "Dark Past": The Polish Debate about the Jedwabne Massacre,"