Dr. Richard A. Freund is the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford. Professor Freund has directed over a dozen archeological projects on behalf of the University of Hartford in Israel, including sites associated with the beginnings of Christianity and Judaism at Nazareth, Bethsaida, and Qumran. In addition, he has directed projects on behalf of the University of Hartford in Spain, Poland, Rhodes, Greece and Lithuania. Dr. Freund’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Time magazine, Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, Archaeology, Smithsonian magazine and featured on the BBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR and Fox News and in hundreds of media outlets worldwide. Dr. Freund is the author of over 100 scholarly articles and eleven books including his new book Archaeology of the Holocaust: Vilna, Rhodes, and Escape Tunnels which will be published in 2019.