Gregg Drinkwater
Program Director, Antisemitism Education
Initiative, Center for Jewish Studies,
UC Berkeley

Dr. Gregg Drinkwater is the Program Director for the Antisemitism Education Initiative (AEI), a project of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. An award-winning writer, educator, trainer, researcher, and organizational leader, Drinkwater’s work is rooted in fostering inclusive communities. He has been involved for decades with Jewish, LGBTQ, and social justice organizations throughout the United States and the world and holds a PhD in U.S. History from the University of Colorado, Boulder, with a specialization in Jewish history and LGBTQ history. As a visiting professor at CU Boulder and at Rutgers University, Drinkwater has taught courses on American Jewish history; genocide and the Holocaust; queer U.S. history; gender and sexuality in Judaism; and global Jewish history from the ancient world to the present. His research on LGBTQ Jewish history has appeared in key scholarly journals in the fields of Jewish studies and queer studies. Starting in 2003, Drinkwater served as the founding executive director of Jewish Mosaic, a national Jewish LGBTQ organization. After Jewish Mosaic merged with Keshet in 2010, he continued his work championing diversity and inclusion before his shift to the University of Colorado in 2013. He is the co-editor of the book Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible (NYU Press, 2009).