MEDIA
Podcasts & Interviews
Luft, Aliza. 2026. “The French Catholic Church and the Holocaust.” Interview for The Holocaust History Podcast, Ep. 84.
Luft, Aliza. 2026. “How the Catholic Church Reassured French Jews Before the Holocaust—and Failed Them.” Interview for The Jewish Angle.
Luft, Aliza. 2026. “Sacred Betrayal: The Catholic Church & French Jewry in WW2.” Interview for The French History Podcast.
Luft, Aliza. 2024. “On Dehumanization and Genocide.” Interview for Moral Matters: Conversations with Sociologists on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity.
Luft, Aliza. 2023. “The Moral Career of the Genocide Perpetrator.” Sociological Theory podcast, SAGE Sociology.
Luft, Aliza. 2019. “On Cruelty.” Interview for The Why Factor: BBC Podcast in Collaboration with American Public Media.
Luft, Aliza. 2015. “Questions of Complicity: France and the Nazi Occupation.” Videotaped interview for Facing History and Ourselves.
In the News
“Dehumanization and hate speech can contribute to inciting violence.” CBC, 10/22/2023.
“‘Great replacement theory’ and its deep roots in America.” NPR, 05/22/2022.
"Recreating a Family’s Lost Holocaust History, Step by Step." New York Times, 03/01/2022.
"Scholars Issue Statement Objecting to Russia’s Use of “Denazification” to Justify Ukraine Invasion." Jewish Journal, 02/26/2022.
“Across the US, families are having tough talks about racism.” LA Times, 06/19/20.
“Opening of 'Hitler's Pope' Archive May Shed More Light on Roles of Vatican and Pius XII During World War II.” Newsweek, 02/23/20.
“New UCLA institute will study — and spread — kindness.” LA Times, 09/25/19.
“The Interpreter: What We're Reading.” New York Times, 09/06/19.
“The U.S. Holocaust Museum is wrong to deny that Trump’s racism resembles Nazism.” LA Times, 07/15/19.
“An Open Letter to the Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.” New York Review of Books, 7/1/19.
“The Treatment of Migrants Likely ‘Meets the Definition of a Mass Atrocity.” NY Times, 06/29/19.
“University of Chicago's Interdisciplinary Conference on Violence.” Chicago Policy Review, 2/18/19.
“'You take a life, you’re going to go through something.'” Chicago Tribune, 2/15/18.
“Here’s what social science tells us about that migrant ‘caravan’ — and the Trump administration’s response.” Washington Post, 10/23/18.
“Remembering Rwanda.” Daily Maverick, 05/7/18.
“UCLA professors launch website to help students affected by travel ban.” The Daily Bruin, 2/17/17.