Dr.  Reinharz is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and also served as a member of the Citizens Commission on Holocaust Assets.
Dr. Reinharz received concurrent bachelor degrees from Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary, a master's degree from Harvard and a doctorate from Brandeis University.  He was the first professor of Jewish history at the University of Michigan, where he established the program in Judaic studies.

During 16 years as president of the only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university in the United States, Dr. Reinharz raised $1.2 billion and tripled the Brandeis endowment, ran a building campaign unrivaled since the 1960s, and cultivated an academic environment that attracts increasingly accomplished students.

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