My Bio

Ken Waltzer is the Myron and Margaret Winegarden Visiting Professor at UM Flint 2011-2012.  He grew up in New York City and attended Harpur College, SUNY-Binghamton, and earned the Ph.D. at Harvard University.  He came to Michigan to help build  James Madison College, Michigan State University’s highly reputed residential college in public affairs, where he was dean and associate dean for a time, and he today is director of MSU’s Jewish Studies Program.  In recent years, he has become a noted scholar of the Holocaust whose current research focuses on The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald.  He is also consultant to Bigfoot Productions NYC in making a feature-length documentary titled “Kinderblock 66.”