Email: brigitte@nyu.edu

Brigitte Sion is currently an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at NYU's Program in Religious Studies and Department of Journalism. She received her M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, where she majored in "Covering religions and beliefs," and her Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University. Professor Sion's dissertation focused on memorials and commemorative practices in Germany and Argentina. She is also the author of four books (in French) — including one about theater performances in Nazi camps and one on the history of Reform Judaism in Switzerland.