Steven Alan Carr is a film and media historian and Director of the Purdue University Fort Wayne Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and a Loewenstein-Wiener Marcus Research Fellow at the American Jewish Archives. He is the author of Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History Up to World War II (2001), co-author with Jennifer Frost of Teaching History with Message Movies (2018), and has written many other published essays.