Leo Spitzer is K. T. Vernon Professor of History Emeritus, Dartmouth College. He is the author of Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism (Hill & Wang: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998), Lives in Between: Assimilation and Marginality in Austria, Brazil and West Africa (Cambridge, 1990; reprinted 1999, Hill & Wang), The Creoles of Sierra Leone: Responses to Colonialism (Wisconsin 1974), and is co-editor with Mieke Bal and Jonathan Crewe of Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present (UPNE, 1999). He is also co-author with Marianne Hirsch of Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (University of California Press, 2010).
