Dr. Carter-Chand joined the Museum in 2018 and serves as the director of the Programs on Religion and the Holocaust, which fosters engagement on the intersections of religion and the Holocaust for a wide range of academic and religious audiences. In this role, she serves as staff director of the Committee on Religion and the Holocaust.
Dr. Carter-Chand's research focuses on Christianity in Nazi Germany, the history of antisemitism, and the shaping of Holocaust memory in Christian contexts. She is the author of Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025), which won the George L. Mosse First Book Prize. She is also the co-editor with Kevin Spicer of Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022).
Her current project is a volume of primary sources entitled, Christianity and the Holocaust in Comparative Perspective, co-edited with Ion Popa. Rebecca serves as Vice-Chair of the Council for Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations (CCJR) and is Associate Managing Editor of Contemporary Church History Quarterly.
Education
PhD, history and Jewish studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 2016
MA, history, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 2002
BA Honours, history, Crandall University, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, 2001
Languages
English
German
French (reading)
Select Publications
Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025), winner of the 2024 George L. Mosse First Book Prize.
“Continuity and Rupture for Religious Welfare Work in Germany after 1933: The Case of the Heilsarmee,” Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 37, 2 (2024): 171-180.
Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars, coedited with Kevin P. Spicer, CSC (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021)
“A Relationship of Pragmatism and Conviction: The International Salvation Army and the German Heilsarmee in the Nazi Era,” Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History, vol. 32 (2020)
Review of Mark Jantzen and John D. Thiesen, eds. European Mennonites and the Holocaust (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2020), in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 2025.
Review of Kevin Madigan, The Popes Against the Protestants: The Vatican and Evangelical Christianity in Fascist Italy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), in Contemporary Church History Quarterly 29, 1 (2023).
Review of Robert Braun, Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), in Contemporary Church History Quarterly 27, 3 (2021).
Select Presentations and Interviews
"Christian Internationalism and German Belonging," Author Series Interview, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, May 14, 2026
“New Approaches to Interpreting Christian Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust,” Distinguished Lecture, Haverford College, January 27, 2025.
“Philosemitism, Antisemitism, and Internationalism: The Salvation Army and Rumors of Jewishness in Nazi Germany,” Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Arlington, September 2025.