Boaz
Dvir

Expertise:

Journalism & Media
Civil Rights
Education

Focus Areas:

Documentary Filmmaking
Ethics in Filmmaking
Diversity
Racism
Social Justice Movements
Education Policy
Middle East

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About

Specializes in documentary storytelling about people and events surrounding the Holocaust and founding of the modern state of Israel.
Research addresses the Holocaust, antisemitism and revolutionary approaches on how to teach K-12 students about difficult topics such as the American Civil War, slavery, race, gender and other current topics.
Director of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative at Penn State.

Boaz Dvir is an assistant professor of journalism in Penn State’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. An award-winning filmmaker, Dvir tells the stories of how ordinary people react to extraordinary situations to become trailblazers and change the world. His work focuses on the Holocaust and the period surrounding the founding of the modern state of Israel.

As director of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative at Penn State, Dvir leads a team of researchers revolutionizing how to teach students from kindergarten through high school about difficult topics, such as the Holocaust, the American Civil War, slavery, race and gender, among other topics. After a successful pilot year that saw one cohort of 20 teachers from a single Pennsylvania school district participate in the program, the initiative has expanded to six cohorts of teachers from across the state and will soon branch out to adjoining states and South Carolina.