Lior Sternfeld is an Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State. Sternfeld is a social historian of Iran and the modern Middle East, with a focus on the Jewish communities of the region. He is the author of Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth Century Iran (Stanford Universtiy Press, 2018), the co-author of Jews of Iran: A Photographic Chronicle (Penn State Universtiy Press, 2022), and the author of Iran: Life Itself (Appeared in Hebrew; Ivrit, 2025).  Stenrfeld is currently working on a project examining the Iranian-Jewish diaspora communities in the US and Israel. Additionally, he is the founding Associate Editor of Palestine/Israel Review.  His research has been supported by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Cultures, Iran Heritage Foundation, NEH, and more.