Wolf Gruner (born 13 December 1960)[1] is a German academic who has been the Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation since 2014.[2] He currently holds the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and is also Professor of History at USC.[3] Since 2017, he is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[4]