Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt is the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism under the U.S. Department of State. She has a storied career as a historian, academic, and author. She helped found the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She has taught at Emory, the University of Washington, UCLA, and Occidental College. She gained international notoriety after prevailing at trial against a leading Holocaust denier who sued her for libel. The case was depicted in the film Denial, which was based on her book, History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.