Michael Casper is a historian of modern Eastern European Jewish politics and culture. He is currently working on a project that examines the Jewish role in planning, theorizing, and inhabiting public housing in 20th-century America.

Casper received his PhD in history at UCLA with a dissertation titled Strangers and Sojourners: The Politics of Jewish Belonging in Lithuania, 1914-1940. He has previously held fellowships at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and the Posen Foundation.