The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies has announced the establishment of a new endowed chair at the Center. Long-time friends and supporters of the Center, Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett, plan to establish an endowment to create the Miriam Lewis Barnett Chair for studies related to the Holocaust, genocide and/or human rights.
The new chair is the fifth endowed faculty position at the Ackerman Center.
“There is not another center that I can think of that has five endowed faculty positions in Holocaust Studies,” said Advisory Board Chair David B. Ackerman.
Barnett called her relationship with UT Dallas and the Ackerman Center “an incredible privilege” and remarked, “my parents would be very gratified to know that the future is in the hands of the wonderful community and family that is UTD.”