Britt P. Tevis is the Phyllis Backer Assistant Professor of American Jewish History at Syracuse University.

Britt Tevis has held fellowships at the Institute for Israel and Judaic Studies at Columbia University, the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Program for the Study of Antisemitism at Yale University, and the Center for Jewish History in New York City.

She has taught courses on history and law at Brooklyn College, Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia), Yale University, Columbia University, and Columbia Law School.

Tevis earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School.