Tatjana Lichtenstein is Associate Professor in the Department of History, and Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on minorities, nationalism, state-building, war and genocide in Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. Her monograph, Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging, was published by Indiana University Press in 2016. It explores how Zionist activists attempted to transform Jewish culture and society in ways that would allow Jews to claim belonging in the new multinational state.