Ellen Eisenberg is the Dwight and Margaret Lear Professor of American History at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She is the author of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 (1995) and co-authored Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America’s Edge (2009) with Ava Kahn and Bill Toll. Her monograph, The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal during WWII, was a 2008 National Jewish Book Award finalist.