Drs. Cryshanna Jackson Leftwich and Adam Fuller Team Up To Give Lunch and Learn at JCC

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On Thursday, January 15, CJHS director Dr. Adam Fuller will give a co-talk at the  Jewish Community Center of Youngstown as a lunch and learn. The talk, titled “From Exodus to Freedom Rides: Jewish and Black Americans Marching Together for Civil Rights” will address the relationship between Jewish and African American civil rights movements, particularly in the 1960s. The event is sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Click here to read Youngstown State University’s press release.

 

Kyle Starkey, Jesse McClain, and Adam Fuller Take Students to US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC

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The 2025 annual bus trip to Washington, DC to visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum was led by History professor Kyle Starkey, English adjunct Jesse McClain, and Political Science professor Adam Fuller on October 12. Two full busses brought YSU students and a few faculty members to DC to tour the national museum to learn about the Shoah. Kyle Starkey’s HIST 3788 (“The Holocaust”) students attended as part of a class project. Students across the university also attended. Political Science professor Cryshanna Jackson-Leftwich and Sociology professor Amanda Fehlbaum also joined the trip this year. The Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies sponsors the USHMM bus trip annually, so if you missed out getting a seat this time, there will be more ahead.

Dr. Norman Goda spoke at YSU on September 29, 2025 to a packed audience

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The Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies partnered with the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation to bring prominent Holocaust historian to campus to give a public lecture titled, “Is Israel Committing Genocide? A Skeptical Approach.”

 

Dr. Goda gave a separate lecture on his book. U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, to Kyle Starkey’s HIST 3788 class, “The Holocaust.”

Dr. Goda and Dr. Fuller outside the Youngstown Museum of Labor and Industry earlier that day: