Robin Judd

As an undergraduate and graduate teacher of history, Robin Judd is committed to providing her students with a challenging, innovative, and intellectually current education that allows them to engage in critical thinking and historical analysis. At OSU, she has created new undergraduate and graduate courses, developed and restructured existing undergraduate courses, and created and developed a new course on Professionalization and Pedagogy (7905). 

Judd teaches courses on Holocaust studies, modern Jewish history, German history, gender history, and history of migration. She has received seven teaching awards since arriving at OSU in 2000, including the Ratner Teaching Award (2020), the Ohio Academy of History Distinguished Teaching Award (2019), and the  Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (2015). She also received the Honors Faculty Service Award in 2022.   

Since Fall 2021, Professor Judd has served as the director of the Hoffman Leaders and Leadership Program in History (LLIH), which brings together exceptional History majors and minors who are interested in furthering their leadership competencies. She herself has deep leadership experience inside and outside of the Academy. Judd currently serves as the President of the Association for Jewish Studies, the largest international learned society and professional organization representing Jewish studies. She also serves as the Vice Chair of the Leo Baeck Institute’s Advisory Board, and is on the Hadassah Brandeis Institute’s Academic Review Committee, and the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook’s Editorial Board.  She has received two leadership awards and was a participant of the President and Provost’s Leadership Initiative at OSU.