Brigitte Sion is Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in New York University’s Program in Religious Studies. A writer, editor, translator, and teacher, she earned her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University in May 2008. Her dissertation examined the performance of memory at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Memorial to the Disappeared in Buenos Aires. AA professional journalist, she is the author of four books on social and cultural topics. She has published over 2,000 articles about arts and culture, international politics, Jewish affairs, and current events. She was the director of projects for photographer Frédéric Brenner and the executive director of an organization combating anti-Semitism in Switzerland, where she was born and raised.
She now lives in New York City.
Her blog looks at issues of memory and commemorations.