She is also the associate director of Northeastern’s Jewish Studies Program in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. Her book, Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. She is currently researching the response of American elites to the pleas to rescue European Jews in the 1930s and 1940s, with two academic articles scheduled for publication, and two additional articles and two books underway. Leff earned an A.B. in public and international affairs from Princeton University, an M.A. in legal studies from Yale University and an M.A. in communications from the University of Miami. She was previously a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Miami Herald, and an editor with American Lawyer Media and the Hartford Courant.