François Guesnet is Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. He holds a PhD in Modern History from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau, and specializes in the early modern and 19th century history of Eastern European and, more specifically, Polish Jews. He has held research fellowships and visiting teaching positions at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Leipzig University and the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). His book publications include Antisemitism in an Era of Transition: The Case of Post-Communist Eastern Central Europe (2014), Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis (2015, written together with Glenn Dynner) and Negotiating Religion: Cross-disciplinary perspectives (2016). He contributed, among others, to numerous articles to the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe and chapters to the Cambridge History of Judaism.