Prof. Oren Kosansky is Associate Professor of Anthropology and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Prof. Kosansky's research has focused on the Jews of Morocco; his courses at Lewis & Clark have been mainly in cultural anthropology, with emphasis on the Middle East.

Prof. Kosansky is also director of The Rabat Genizah Project, which is developing a digital archive of previously unavailable materials that documents the modern history of the Jewish Morocco in its urban, national and regional contexts.