Joshua Tapper is a research associate at York University’s Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies and a doctoral candidate in Jewish History at Stanford University, where his dissertation explores the impact of perestroika-era reforms on Soviet Jewish culture and politics at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s. His scholarship on Russian-speaking Jewish immigration to and resettlement in Canada has appeared in the journal Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes, where he works as managing editor. He currently serves as executive director of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.