President and Executive Director, Museum of Human Rights, Freedom, and Tolerance, Millburn NJ
Cell: 310-993-5283
Email: igkotler@yahoo.com
Candidate of Philosophy (C. Ph.) in History, 1992, UCLA
M.A. in History, 1991, UCLA
M.A. in Psychology, 1986, Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State University
B.A. in Engineering, 1978, Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Railway Engineering Institute
President and Executive Director, Museum of Human Rights, Freedom, and Tolerance, Millburn, NJ, 2009-present Project Leader, U.S.-Russia-FSU Dialogue Project, Center for the Study of Genocide, and Human Rights, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 2014-present
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Senior Scholar), Center for the Study of Genocide, and Human Rights, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 2010-present
Vice Director, International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue, Paris (France), 2019-present
Director, International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue - US Platform, 2021-present
Senior Research Associate, International Educational and Research Center of the Holocaust and Genocides History, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow (Russia), 2019-present
Senior Research Associate, European Center for Democracy Development, 2024-present
Forty-Ninth Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches (Dallas, Texas), 2019
West Chester University (PA), 2019
Sixteenth European Congress of Psychology, Moscow, 2019
Fiftieth Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches (Dallas, Texas),2020
Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia, ZOOM), 2020
International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue (Paris, France, ZOOM), 2020
Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia, ZOOM), 2020
International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue (Geneva, Switzerland, ZOOM), 2020
Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia, ZOOM), 2020
International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue (Paris, France, ZOOM), 2020
Kyiv School of Diplomatic Arts (Kyiv, Ukraine, ZOOM), 2020
International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue (Paris, France, ZOOM), 2021
International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue (Paris, France, ZOOM), 2021
International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue (Paris, France, ZOOM), 2021
International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue (Paris, France, ZOOM), 2021
North-Ossetian Medical Academy (Vladikavkaz, Russia, ZOOM), 2021
International Conference “Basics of Sustainable Development and Secure Future of the Republic of Moldova” (Chisinau, Moldova, ZOOM), 2021
International Conference of the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia, ZOOM), 2021
International Conference “Xenophobia and Extremism: Global Challenges and Regional Trends, ”Center for Extremism and Radicalism Studies, Moscow Institute of Economics (Moscow, Russia, ZOOM), 2021
Paper “Extremist Movements in the Post-Soviet Space: Origins and Main Trends.
Third Moscow International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism, Xenophobia, and Racism, (Moscow, Russia),2021
Ru Balt. Conference, (Kaliningrad, Russia, ZOOM),2021
America-Kyrgyzstan Dialogue (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, ZOOM), 2022
The Fifty-Second Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches (Dallas, Texas), 2022
Conference of the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia, ZOOM), 2022
Seventeenth European Congress of Psychology (Ljubljana, Slovenia), 2022
International Conference “Basics of Sustainable Development and Secure Future of the Republic of Moldova” (Chisinau, Moldova, ZOOM), 2022
The Fifty-Third Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches(Dallas, Texas), 2023
Human Dimensions Conference, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe(OSCE), Warsaw (Poland), 2023
War, the Holocaust, and Human Rights Conference, US Air Force Academy and the University of Texas at Dallas (Colorado Springs), 2023
Conference of the Russian State University for the Humanities (Kaliningrad, Russia, ZOOM), 2023
International Conference on Peace in Ukraine, Ukraine History Institute and European Center for Democracy Development (Kyiv, Ukraine-Riga, Latvia, ZOOM), 2023
Workshop on human rights in Ukraine. Ukrainian Institute for Analysis and Management of Policy, Kyiv (Ukraine), 2019
Workshop on human rights in Moldova. Institute of Ethnology, Moldovan Academy of Sciences, Chisinau (Moldova), 2019
Workshop on human rights and tolerance in Russia. Center of the Holocaust and Genocides, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow (Russia), 2019
Workshop on ethnic, racial, religious, and sexual minorities in Russia. Center of Historical Anthropology, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow (Russia), 2019
Seminar with Journalists, Historians and Human Rights Activists, Regional Press Institute, St Petersburg, Russia, 2019
Workshop on human rights and tolerance in Russia. Center of the Holocaust and Genocides, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow (Russia), 2021 (ZOOM)
Workshop for Sociologists and Political Scientists, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), 2022 (ZOOM)
Commissioner, New Jersey State Commission on Holocaust Education, 2012-Present
Ilya Altman, Igor Kotler, Juergen Tsaruski, eds. The Holocaust: 70 Years Later. Moscow: Holocaust Center, 2015. [In Russian and English]
Ilya Altman, Igor Kotler, eds. Protecting Future: Collection of Materials of the First Moscow International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism: Moscow, November 1-2, 2016. Moscow-Rostov-on-Don: Feniks, 2018. [In Russian]
Ilya Altman, Igor Kotler, eds. Protecting Future: Selected Papers the First Moscow International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism: Moscow, November 1-2, 2016. Russian Jewish Congress, 2018.
Ilya Altman, Igor Kotler, eds. Protecting the Future: Second Moscow International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism, Xenophobia, and Racism. Moscow. October 29-30, 2018. Moscow: Kaleidoskop, 2020 [In Russian]
Ilya Altman, Igor Kotler, eds. Protecting the Future: Second Moscow International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism, Xenophobia, and Racism. Moscow. October 29-30, 2018. Moscow: Kaleidoskop, 2020
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust on Soviet Soil [in progress]
Book of Pogroms [in progress]
Extremist Movements in the Post-Soviet Countries: Origins and Main Developments. In Xenophobia and Extremism: Global Challenges and Regional Trends. Moscow: Dashkov and Co., 2022, pp. 275- 287.
Racism, Xenophobia, and Anti-Semitism in the Russian-Speaking Segment of YouTube. Ilya Altman, Igor Kotler, eds. Protecting the Future: Second Moscow International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism, Xenophobia, and Racism. Moscow. October 29-30, 2018. Moscow: Kaleidoskop, 2020. [In Russian]
Government Policy, Nationalism and Nationalistic Victims in the Former Soviet Union (in progress)
LGBTQ in Russia (in progress)
Moldova: Never Ending Road to a Never Achieved Democracy. European Center for Democracy Development: Civic Nation, August 16, 2020. https://www.civic-nation.org/publications/moldova-never-ending-road-to-a-never-achieved-democracy/
Political Situation in Armenia. European Center for Democracy Development: Civic Nation, February 16, 2020. https://civic-nation.org/publications/political-situation-in-armenia/
Georgian Politics and the Lack of Freedom: From One Cosmetic Change to The Next. European Center for Democracy Development: Civic Nation, April22, 2020. https://www.civic-nation.org/publications/georgian-politics-and-the-lack-of-freedom-from-one-cosmetic-change-to-the-next/
Kyrgyzstan: Political Developments. European Center for Democracy Development: Civic Nation, February 2020. https://civic-nation.org/publications/kyrgyzstan-political-developments/
Liberation of Camps in American Press: Liberal and Conservative Discourse. In Allies’ Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps, 1944-1945. Moscow, 2020. [In Russian]