Flora Cassen is the Lavine Family Director of the Brandeis Center for Jewish Studies and the Director of the Sarnat Center for the Study of Anti-Jewishness at Brandeis University, and a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Born and raised in Antwerp, Belgium, she earned a BA from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, MA from Brandeis University, and PhD from New York University. Her new book, Stained Glass: A Reflective History of Antisemitism, published by New Jewish Press, offers a wide-ranging and personal reflection on the history and contemporary meanings of antisemitism. She is also the author of Marking the Jews in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge University Press), and her writing has appeared in Haaretz, The Forward, Slate, Aeon, Sources, the Dispatch, and Smithsonian Magazine.