Charles Small

Charles Asher Small (D.Phil, Oxon) is the Founding Director and President of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and the Director of the ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Discrimination and Human Rights at the Woolf Institute, in association with St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge, UK. Charles is additionally a research fellow at St. Edmunds College.

Charles is committed to creating scholarly programming and research on contemporary antisemitism at world-renowned universities and establishing contemporary antisemitism studies as a recognized academic discipline. He is currently leading an international research project on the impact of soft power and undocumented funding on higher education as it pertains to antisemitism. Charles is the author of several books, has convened ground-breaking academic seminar series in the emerging field of contemporary antisemitism studies at world-renowned institutions including Harvard University, in addition to developing an academic training programme for professors at the University of Oxford.

Charles is a human rights advocate, having served as Chair of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the Struggle for Ethiopian Jewry in Montreal, and as Chair of the African National Congress Solidarity Committee of Canada. He also worked on issues pertaining to the First Nations of what is now Canada, especially the Innu Nation. He is engaged in the struggle against contemporary antisemitisms, the demonization of Israel and the Jewish People, and how it relates directly to other forms of hatred and reactionary social movements. Charles speaks widely on these matters at universities, governmental organisations, and other public institutions.