Michael Berkowitz is a UK-based American historian and professor of modern Jewish history at University College London.
[1] Berkowitz was born in Rochester, New York.
He earned a bachelor's degree from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, and a master's degree and PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
[2][3] Since 2012, Berkowitz has been editor of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England.
[2][4] Berkowitz has a particular interest in the history of the Jewish involvement in photography.