Joanna Krongold

Joanna Krongold is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow investigating antisemitism in health professions education. She is jointly appointed at the University of Toronto’s Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies and the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Office of Inclusion and Diversity. Dr. Krongold obtained her PhD from the University of Toronto's Department of English in 2020, focusing on Holocaust literature written for children and young adults. Her current work explores antisemitism, EDI, and social justice-oriented education; experiential learning; and Holocaust memory, literature, and pedagogy. She has taught at many levels in both university- and community-based settings, and her scholarly monograph is forthcoming in 2026 from Bloomsbury.