Barbara Stern Burstin is an adjunct professor in the history departments at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.
She has published several books and articles relating to the Holocaust and the history of Jews in Pittsburgh.
The daughter of Mildred and Joseph Stern, Burstin was raised in Farmingdale, New York.
[1] Burstin earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. in 1962 and went on to gain her master's in history education from Columbia University in 1963 prior to acquiring her doctorate in history from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986.
[2] In addition to awards from the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Zionist Organization of America, Burstin is a past recipient of the Sonia & Aaron Levinson Community Relations Award, the Solon J. Buck Award (1987), and the Oskar Halecki Prize from the Polish-American Historical Society (1991) and has been nominated for a regional Emmy Award for the film A Jewish Legacy (2000).