Guy Beiner is a professor of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev who specializes in the history of remembering and forgetting. He holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland and was a Government of Ireland Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, as well as a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, a Government of Hungary Scholar at the Central European University, a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Burns Scholar at Boston College. His books on social memory/forgetting and folk history have won multiple international awards.
