Victoria J. Barnett

Director of the Programs on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust

Victoria J. Barnett has written and taught extensively about the history of the churches and the interfaith community during the Nazi era and about the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. From 2022-23 she was the Frank Talbott, Jr. Endowed Visiting Professor in Jewish and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She served as the Director of the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2004-2019. From 2004-2014 she was one of the general editors of the multivolume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition. She is a graduate of Indiana University, Union Theological Seminary (New York), and George Mason University. She is the author of “After Ten Years”: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Our Times; For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler; and Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity during the Holocaust, and the translator of several works, most recently Christiane Tietz, Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict (2021).