JONATHAN WYN SCHOFER

Date: April 29, 2018

Contact Information: Associate Professor of Religious Studies Department of Religious Studies University of Texas, Austin 2505 University Avenue Stop A3700 Austin, Texas 78712-1090 Office Phone: 512-232-8382 Cel Phone: 608-334-5579 Email: [email protected]

ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2013 – present Associate Professor of Religious Studies (with tenure), also Schustermann Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

2012 – 2013 Visiting Associate Professor of Religion, Reed College, Portland, OR.

2008 – 2012 Associate Professor of Comparative Ethics, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2006 – 2008 Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethics, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2003 – 2004 External Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

2000 – 2005 Belzer Assistant Professor of Classical Rabbinic Literature, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, also Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, and Religious Studies Program, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.

1999 Visiting Instructor, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, IL.

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EDUCATION 2000 Ph.D. with distinction, History of Religions / History of Judaism The University of Chicago Divinity School, The University of Chicago.

1997 – 1998 Talmudic studies, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem.

1994 M.A., The University of Chicago Divinity School, The University of Chicago.

1991 M.A., Social Sciences in Education, Stanford University.

1991 B.A. with distinction, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Stanford University.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS (PEER REVIEWED) Midrash Rabbah and Judaism: The Canonical Development of Holidays, Law, and Leadership (in preparation, a full manuscript is available).

Tents: The Body, Domestic Space, and Impurity in Jewish Law (in preparation, a full manuscript is available).

Confronting Vulnerability: The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2010.

The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. Notable Selection, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards, Association for Jewish Studies, 2008.

PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER REVIEWED) “Canonical Midrash and the Aggadic Response to Biblical Law: Exodus Rabbah on the Ten Commandments and the Covenant Code” (in preparation, a full manuscript is available).

“Midrash Rabbah and the Holidays: Unexpected Exegetical Homilies Regarding the New Year, Sukkot, and Passover” (in preparation, a full manuscript is available).

“The Legal Framing of Food and Festivity in the Mishnah: Tractates Tithes and Second Tithe” (in preparation, a full manuscript is available).

“Ethical Formation and Subjection.” Numen: The official journal of the International Association for the History of Religions 59/1 (2012): 1-31.

“Theology and Cosmology in Rabbinic Ethics: The Pedagogical Significance of Rainmaking Narratives.” Jewish Studies Quarterly 12/3 (2005): 227-259.

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“Self, Subject, and Chosen Subjection: Rabbinic Ethics and Comparative Possibilities.” Journal of Religious Ethics 33/2 (2005): 255-291.

Thomas A. Lewis, Jonathan Wyn Schofer, Aaron Stalnaker, and Mark A. Berkson, “Anthropos and Ethics: Categories of Inquiry and Procedures of Comparison.” Journal of Religious Ethics 33/2 (2005): 177-185.

“Protest or Pedagogy? Trivial Sin and Divine Justice in Rabbinic Narrative.” Hebrew Union College Annual 74 (2003): 243-278.

“Spiritual Exercises in Rabbinic Culture.” Association for Jewish Studies Review 27/2 (2003): 203-225.

“The Redaction of Desire: Structure and Editing of Rabbinic Teachings Concerning Yeser (‘Inclination’).” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 12/1 (2003): 19-53.

“Virtues in Xunzi’s Thought.” The Journal of Religious Ethics 21/1 (1993): 117-136. Reprinted in Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in the Xunzi, edited by T. C. Kline and P. J. Ivanhoe. 69-88. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 2000.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS (INVITED) “Subject Formation/Subjectivity.” In The Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics, edited by William Schweiker. Wiley Blackwell (submitted).

“Wisdom in Jewish Theology.” In The Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and Wisdom Literature, edited by Will Kynes. Oxford University Press (accepted).

“Ethical and Moral Duties in Rabbinic Judaism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law. Oxford University Press (accepted).

“Classical Jewish Ethics and Theology in the Halakhic Tractates of the Mishnah.” In Imagining the Jewish God, edited by Len Kaplan and Ken Koltun-Fromm, 47-62. New York: Lexington Books, 2016.

“Theology of Law: Rabbinic Literature.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law, editor-in-chief Brent Strawn, 400-407. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

“Exegesis.” In Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, edited by Robert Segal and Kocku von Struckrad. Brill Publishers, 2014 (internet).

“Rabbinic Ethics.” In International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Hugh LaFollette. Wiley-Blackwell Reference Online, 2013 (internet).

“Ethics, Rabbinic.” In The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture, edited by J. Baskin, 162-163. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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“Avot de Rabbi Nathan.” In The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture, edited by J. Baskin, 47-48. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

“The Different Life Stages: From Childhood to Old Age.” In The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine, edited by C. Hezser, 327-343. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

“Rabbinic Ethical Formation and the Formation of Rabbinic Ethical Compilations.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature, edited by C. Fonrobert and M. Jaffee, 313-335. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

“Self-Cultivation and Relations with Others in Classical Rabbinic Thought.” In Moral Cultivation: Essays on the Development of Character and Virtue, edited by B. Wilburn, 85-100. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.

“The Beastly Body in Rabbinic Self-Formation.” In Religion and the Self in Antiquity, edited by D. Brakke, M. Satlow, and S. Weitzman, 197-221. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005.

Frank Reynolds and Jonathan Schofer, “Cosmology.” In A Companion to Religious Ethics, edited by W. Schweiker, 120-128. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005.

PUBLICATIONS: REVIEWS AND ESSAYS (INVITED) Review of Mira Balberg, Purity, Body, and the Self in Early Rabbinic Literature. Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press, 2014. Body and Religion (submitted).

Review of Gregg Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. The Journal of Jewish Ethics 3:2 (2017): 267-269.

Review of Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents, edited by Jonathan K. Crane. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016. The Journal of Jewish Ethics 3:2 (2017): 270-273.

Review of Dov Weiss, Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism. Philadelphia, PA: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion (2016). http://readingreligion.org/books/pious-irreverence

Review of Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought, edited by Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth. Lincoln, NE: The University of Nebraska Press, and Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 2015. Journal of Jewish Ethics 2:2 (2016): 87-91.

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“Current Jewish Theological Responses to Contemporary Issues: A Review of William E. Kaufman, The Jewish Philosophical Response to the New Atheists – Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, and Hitchens. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellon Press, 2014; and Jeff Levin, Upon These Three Things: Jewish Perspectives on Loving God. Waco, TX: ISR Books, 2014. Journal of Jewish Ethics 2:2 (2016): 80-87.

Review of The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality, edited by Rabbi Lisa J. Grushcow, CCAR Challenge and Change Series. New York: CCAR Press, 2014. Journal of Jewish Ethics 1:2 (2015): 262-265.

Review of Jerome Neu, On Loving Our Enemies: Essays in Moral Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2012).

“Ethics and Vulnerability in Watchmen,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin 37/2-3 (2009): 64-69.

“Comment: Virtues and Vices of Relativism,” Journal of Religious Ethics 36/4 (2008): 763-769.

“Book Discussion: Embodiment and Virtue in a Comparative Context,” Journal of Religious Ethics 35/4 (2007): 713-728.

“The Image of God: A Study of an Ancient Sensibility,” Journal of the Society for Textual Reasoning 4/3 (2006) (internet).

“In the Image of God,” Shema 34 (2003): 5.

Review of Jeffrey Rubenstein, Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art, Composition, and Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1999. Hebrew Studies XLII (2001): 382-385.

Review of David Kraemer, The Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism. New York: Routledge, 2000. Journal of Religion 81/3 (2001): 501-502.

Philip J. Ivanhoe and Jonathan Schofer, Index. In A.C. Graham, Two Chinese Philosophers. La Salle, IL: Open Court Press, 1992.

AWARDS Notable Selection, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards, Association for Jewish Studies, 2008. University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Stipend, 2005. Exceptional Professor, University of Wisconsin CSS Residence Hall Community, 2004. Stanford Humanities Center External Faculty Fellowship. 2003 – 2004. University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Stipend, 2003. University of Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Stipend, 2002. Outstanding Educator, University of Wisconsin Panhellenic Association, 2002. William Rainey Harper Fellow, University of Chicago, 1999 – 2000. National Foundation for Jewish Culture dissertation fellowship, 1999 – 2000 (declined).

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Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture dissertation scholarship, 1999 – 2000 (declined). Lilly Fellowship for Theological Education, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1999 – 2000 (declined). Junior Fellow, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago, 1998 – 1999. University of Chicago Divinity School Hartman Scholar, 1997 – 1998. University of Chicago Divinity School Fellowship, 1994 – 1997. Title VI Summer Fellowship for Modern Hebrew, 1995. Notable Andrew W. Mellow Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 1993 – 1994. Phi Beta Kappa, 1991. Berman Prize for best undergraduate essay, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, 1988.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION “Self-Control, Foucault’s Ethics, and Deuteronomy Rabbah 8:4.” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, MA, 2017. “Prayer and Liturgy in Recent Scholarship and Classic Resources: Classical Judaism.” Ancient Mediterranean Religions Colloquium, Department of Religious Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2017. Respondent to Panel, “A Sound Body: Health and Physical Discipline.” Embodiment, Corporeality, and the Senses in Religion, Graduate Student Conference, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2017. “Foucault’s Ethics, the Present Day, and Deuteronomy Rabbah.” Foucault and Religion Conference. The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2017. Moderator, Central Texas Colloquium on Religion Research Conference, Austin. TX 2017. “Inanimate Objects and Mishnaic Legal Innovation: ‘A Cover Tied Upon It.’” Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego, CA, 2016. Faculty Mentor and Session Chair, Enoch Graduate Seminar, Austin, TX, 2016. “Tents: The Body, Domestic Space, and Impurity in Jewish Law,” Department of Religious Studies Colloquium, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2016 Respondent to panel, “The Social Body,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA, 2014. Panel participant, Early Jewish Christian Relations, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, CA, 2014. “Jewish Mysticism.” Jewish Community Center of Austin. Austin, TX, 2014. “Beyond Tractate Avot: Ethics in the Halakhic Tractates of the Mishnah.” Symposium on Jewish Ethics, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, 2014. Respondent for session on “Rabbinic Texts and Jewish Ethics.” Society of Jewish Ethics. Seattle, WA, 2014. “Jewish Holy Days, Foundational Writings, and Islam.” Muslim Educational Trust, Portland, OR, 2013. “Hasidim Rishonim: Miracle Workers, Momigliano, and Michel de Certeau.” University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2013. “Scripture in Judaism.” Muslim Education Trust, Portland, OR, 2013. “Sagely Life and Sagely Character in Classical Jewish Sources.” Institute for Jewish Studies,

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Portland, OR. 2013. “Jewish Voices: Confronting Vulnerability.” Oregon Jewish Museum, 2012. “Classical Jewish Thought, Vulnerability, and Contemporary Ethical Issues: The Case of ‘The Obesity Epidemic.’” Amherst College, 2012. “Early Death Reconsidered.” Amherst College, 2012. “Rabbinic Food Ethics for Contemporary Jews: Preliminary Observations.” Fifth Annual Meeting of the Judaism, Science, and Medicine Group, Arizona State University, 2012. “Confronting Vulnerability and Practice.” Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 2011. “Confronting Mortality: Life Cycles and Vulnerability in Rabbinic Ethics and Today.” Williams College, 2010. Respondent to panel, “Interrogating ‘Religion’ in Ancient Judaism.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, 2010. Panelist, “The Purposes and Practices of Teaching Rabbinic Literature: ‘Rabbinic Literature in Translation’ at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard Divinity School.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, 2010. “Comparative Religious Ethics and Vulnerability.” Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 2010. “False Fixity, Vulnerability, and Rabbinic Ethics.” Ancient Judaism Workshop, Yale University, 2010. “How Does the Study of Rabbinic Ethics Change the Study of Comparative Religious Ethics?” Co-organizer of workshop, with Elizabeth Bucar and Aaron Stalnaker, Ethics in a Global Age: Shaping a Third Wave of Comparative Religious Ethics, Indiana University, 2010. “Subjection, Self-Formation, and Comparative Religious Ethics.” Co-organizer of workshop, with Elizabeth Bucar and Aaron Stalnaker, The Third Wave of Comparative Religious Ethics. Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 2010. “Gary Anderson’s Sin: A History and the Study of Rabbinic Theology.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, New Orleans, 2009. Respondent to panel, “Thinking Animals, Rethinking Religion: How Taking Animals Seriously is Reshaping the Study of Religion.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Montreal, 2009. Response to Maria Heim, “Buddhist Thoughts on Intention.” Moral Worlds and Religious Subjectivities, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 2009. “Moral Cultivation, Cultural Diversity, and Teaching Comparative Ethics, Center for the Study of World Religions,” Harvard University, 2009. “Stewardship or Vulnerability: Ancient Jewish Rainmaking and the Foundations of Environmental Ethics.” Henry S. Levinson Lecture, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2009. “Rabbinic Approaches to Death, Dying, and Vulnerability.” Harvard Divinity School Bioethics Society, 2009. “Excretion and Rabbinic Ethics.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, Boston, 2008. “Vulnerability in Rabbinic Thought and Contemporary Ethics.” Princeton Workshop on Jewish Thought, Princeton University, 2008. Response to Ben Pollack, “Testing the Limits: Salomon Maimon on the Secrets of Being Human.” Princeton Workshop on Jewish Thought, Princeton University, 2008.

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“Confronting Vulnerability in Rabbinic Ethics and Today.” University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2008. “Vulnerability, Ethics, and Rabbinic Thought.” Brown University, Providence, 2008. “The Aging Body, God’s Justice, and the Authority of Rabbinic Instruction: Midrashic Treatments of Ecclesiastes 12:1-7.” Organizer of panel, Embodying Authority in Rabbinic Midrash: Law, Theology, and Ethics. Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Toronto, 2007. “False Fixities, Confronting Vulnerability, and the Genres of Rabbinic Midrash.” Organizer of panel, Exploring “Odd” Ethical Genres: Poetry, Midrash, and Weblogs. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, 2007. “Sacred Scripture in Judaism.” Symposium on “Sacred Scriptures” in the Abrahamic Religions, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, 2007. “Confronting Mortality: Life, Aging, and Death in Rabbinic Ethics.” Hammond Lectureship, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 2007. “Stewardship or Vulnerability: Ancient Jewish Rainmaking and the Foundations of Environmental Ethics.” Hammond Lectureship, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 2007. “Midrashic Treatments of Ecclesiastes 12:1-7.” Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 2007. Respondent to Aaron Gross, “Being a Mench and not an Animal: The Imagination of Ethics and the Question of the Animal.” Annual Meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics, Dallas, 2007. “The Ages of a Rabbinic Sage: ’Avot 5:21 as a Selective and Synthetic Compilation.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego, 2006. “Comparative Reflections on Material Virtue.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Washington, DC, 2006. “Rabbinic Bodies in Everyday Space.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Washington, DC, 2006. “The Ages of a Rabbinic Sage: ’Avot 5:21 as a Selective and Synthetic Compilation.” Judaism in Antiquity Workshop, Harvard University, 2006. “Exegesis and Forms of Reasoning.” Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 2006. “Rabbis and Other Jews in the time of ‘Classical’ Judaism.” Greenfield Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006. “Jews and Judaism in the Ancient World: Relations between Religion and Ethnicity.” Greenfield Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006. “Part Animal, Part Angel: Embodiment and Classical Rabbinic Ethical Instruction.” Annual Meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics, Phoenix, 2006. Breakfast with an Author, The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics. Annual Meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics, Phoenix, 2006. “Which Logos for Whose Psyche? Psychology of Religion Meets Comparative Studies of the Self.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, 2005. “The Ages of a Rabbinic Sage: ’Avot 5:21 as a Selective and Synthetic Compilation.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, 2005. “Exegesis, Divination, and the Foundations of Knowledge.” Organizer and Chair of panel, Knowledge within Religion. Knowledge and Religion, Stanford Humanities Center,

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Stanford, CA, 2005. “Rainmaking and Rabbinic Ethics.” Temple Beth Israel Sinai, Racine, WI, 2005. “Same Gender Erotic and Sexual Relations in the Bible and Jewish Tradition.” Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005. “Monotheism and Monstrosity: Leviathan in the Bible and Talmud.” Workshop on Monsters and Alterity, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005. “Theology and Cosmology in Rabbinic Ethics: The Pedagogical Significance of Rainmaking Stories.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, 2004. “From Rabbinic Text to Rabbinic Thought.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, San Antonio, 2004. “Rabbinic Ethics and Rabbinic Authority: Tropes for Transformation through Torah.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, 2004. “Rainmaking and Rabbinic Ethics.” Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford, CA, 2004. “Temporality and Rabbinic Character Ethics.” Annual Meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics, Chicago, 2004. “The Boundaries of Divine Justice: The Trivial Sin and the Absence of Theodicy.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, 2003. “The Play of Tropes in Rabbinic Culture: Metaphor Theory and The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 2003. “Classical Rabbinic Character Ethics.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, 2003. “Torah as Exercise, Torah as Asceticism.” Workshop on Configuring Late Antiquity, Stanford University, 2003. “The Body and Self Cultivation in Rabbinic Literature.” The Religious Self in Antiquity, University of Indiana, 2003. “Local Spaces of Ethical Significance.” Jewish Conceptions and Practices of Space, Stanford University, 2003. “Good Fences Make Good Sages: The Concept of ‘Hedge’ in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, 2002. Respondent to Peter Ochs, “The Transportation and Transformation of Values: A Study in Rabbinic Pragmatism.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, 2002. “Spiritual Exercises in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, Toronto, Canada, 2002. “Self, Subject, and Chosen Subjection: The Case of Rabbinic Ethics.” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Toronto, Canada, 2002. “Law and Rabbinic Self-Cultivation.” XXVIIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2002. “The Body and Self Cultivation in Abot de Rabbi Natan.” Upper Midwest Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, Minneapolis, 2002. “Modes of Self-Awareness and Intentionality in The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan.” Rabbinic Self Awareness and Intentionality, Institute for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha, Kiryat Moriah Campus, Jerusalem, Israel, 2001 (paper presented by

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Robert D. Holmsteadt due to travel difficulties following 11 September 2001). “Structure and Editing of Rabbinic Traditions Concerning Ye t ze r (Inclination).” Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC, 2001. “The Body and Self-Cultivation in Rabbinic Literature.” Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000. “The Shaping of Desire: Rabbinic Conceptions of Torah and Transgressive Tendencies.” Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago, 1999. “Divine Justice and Human Spiritual Exercises in Rabbinic Judaism.” Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago, 1998. Respondent, “The Final Foucault,” by Ivan Strenski. The Future of the History of Religions Conference, University of Chicago, 1996. “Virtues in Xunzi’s Thought: Issues in Comparative Analysis.” Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, 1991.

COURSES: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Rabbinics and Judaism, Sources in Translation Jewish Civilization: Beginnings to 1492 Mysticism in Rabbinic Judaism

Rabbinics and Judaism, Sources in Original Languages Graduate Seminar: Early Jewish and Christian Literature: Classical Rabbinic Texts

Study of Religion Graduate Seminar: Doctoral Seminar in Religious Studies Comparative Religious Ethics Religious Ethics and Human Rights The Bible and Its Interpreters Advanced Seminars in Religious Studies (undergraduate capstone course), Topic: "Space, Time, and Religion"

COURSES: REED COLLEGE Rabbinics and Judaism, Sources in Translation Reading Rabbinic Texts: Miracles, Mysticism, Myth, and More

Comparative Ethics To Live a Good Life: An Introduction to Comparative Religious Ethics

Study of Religion Space, Time, and Religion

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COURSES: HARVARD UNIVERSITY Rabbinics and Judaism, Sources in Translation Rabbinic Ethics and Self-Cultivation Time and Space in Rabbinic Judaism Rabbinic Literature in Translation

Rabbinics and Judaism, Sources in Original Languages Seminar: Rabbinic Stories and Rabbinic Thought Seminar: The Poetics of Midrash: Approaches to Rabbinic Hermeneutics

Comparative Ethics Introduction to Comparative Religious Ethics: Character and a Good Life Psychoanalysis and Character Ethics Tradition and Ethics in a Comparative Perspective Seminar: The Self and Virtue in a Comparative Perspective Seminar: Topics in Comparative Religious Ethics: Vulnerability Seminar: Methods in Comparative Religious Ethics

Study of Religion Doctoral Seminar: Contemporary Conversations in the Study of Religion

COURSES: THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Rabbinics and Judaism, Sources in Translation Introduction to Judaism Classical Rabbinic Literature in Translation Ancient Jewish Psychology and Ethics Holy Times and Places in Rabbinic Literature

Rabbinics and Judaism, Sources in Original Languages Classical Rabbinic Texts in Hebrew Graduate Seminar: Early Biblical Interpretation

Comparative Religion Time, Space, and the Construction of the Holy

COURSES: DEPAUL UNIVERSITY Rabbinics and Judaism, Sources in Translation The Jewish Experience

SERVICE: GENERAL PROFESSIONAL Book Review Editor, Journal of Jewish Ethics, 2013 – present Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics, 2013 – present

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Editorial Advisory Board, Bloomsbury Studies in Global Ethics, 2012 – present Editorial Board, Graven Images, Lexington Press, 2007 – present Peer Review Panel Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2017 Editorial Board, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2010 – 2016 Editorial Board, Journal of Religious Ethics, 2010 – 2015 Steering Committee, Comparative Religious Ethics Group, American Academy of Religion, 2010 – 2012 Board President, Southeast Asia Development Program, 2009 – 2010 Board Member, Southeast Asia Development Program, 2007 – 2010 Board Member, Society of Jewish Ethics, 2008 – 2010 Associate Editor, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2006 – 2010 Co-chair, Comparative Religious Ethics Group, American Academy of Religion, 2008 – 2010 Steering Committee, Comparative Religious Ethics Group, American Academy of Religion, 2005 – 2008 Steering Committee, Study of Judaism Group, American Academy of Religion, 2004 – 2005 Book Manuscript Referee or Book Series Referee: Cambridge University Press Continuum International Publishing Group Georgetown University Press Palgrave Macmillan University of California Press University of Wisconsin Press Yale University Press Journal Article Referee: Association for Jewish Studies Review Harvard Theological Review History of Religions Jewish Quarterly Review Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Journal of Chinese Religions Journal of Jewish Studies Journal of Religious Ethics Journal of Religion Journal of the American Academy of Religion Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics Philosophy East & West Studies in Late Antiquity: A Journal Teaching Theology and Religion Research Assistant, Haftarah commentary, Michael Fishbane, 1996 – 1997 Memberships: Society of Biblical Literature, American Academy of Religion, Association for Jewish Studies, Society of Jewish Ethics, National Association of Professors of Hebrew

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SERVICE: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES Graduate Studies Committee, 2013 – present 3rd year review committee, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, research, 2018 3rd year review committee, Religion in the Americas, service, 2018 Speaker, Faculty Interfaith Panel, University of Texas at Austin Hindu Students Association, 2018 Graduate Admissions Committee, Ancient Mediterranean Religions representative, 2017 – 2018 Organizer, Monthly Colloquium, Department of Religious Studies, 2017 – 2018 Promotion Committee, Lecturer to Senior Lecturer, 2017. Spring COLA Commencement Representative, 2017 Peer Review, departmental colleague, undergraduate course, 2017 Speaker, Faculty Interfaith Panel, University of Texas at Austin Hindu Students Association, 2017 Ethics and Leadership Flag Faculty Development Event, 2017 Eyes on Teaching, 2017 Graduate Admissions Committee, Ancient Mediterranean Religions representative, 2016 – 2017 Organizer, Monthly Colloquium, Department of Religious Studies, 2016 – 2017 Department of Religious Studies Representative to Cluster Meetings, College of Liberal Arts Strategic Planning (CLASP), 2016 – 2017 Department of Religious Studies Working Group, College of Liberal Arts Strategic Planning (CLASP), 2016 Consultation for University of Texas at Austin Media Relations, 2016 Graduate Student Minority Liaison, 2013 –2016 Graduate Student Progress Committee, 2016 Graduate Admissions Committee, Ancient Mediterranean Religions representative, 2015 – 2016 Spring COLA Commencement Representative, 2016 Graduate Exam Committee, 2015 Presentation for Doctoral Students on Career Networking Skills, 2015 Spring COLA Commencement Representative, 2015 Organizer, Monthly Colloquium, Department of Religious Studies, 2014 – 2015 Search Committee, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, 2014 Graduate Admissions Committee, Ancient Mediterranean Religions representative, 2013 – 2014 Web and Newsletter Update, 2013

SERVICE: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Search Committee, Schusterman Center Director, 2017 Schustermann Center for Jewish Studies affiliation, 2013 – present

SERVICE: HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL Advisory Board, Center for the Study of World Religions, 2006 – 2012 Co-organizer, Comparative Studies Workshop, Center for the Study of World Religions, 2010

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Search Committee, Science and Religion, 2009 – 2010 Standing Committee, Committee on the Study of Religion, 2008 – 2009 Search Committee, American Religious History, 2008 – 2009 Admissions Committee, Committee on the Study of Religion, 2009 Loeb Fellowship Committee, 2008 – 2009 Organizer, Center for the Study of World Religions lunch discussions, 2007 Search Committee, Emerson Chair, 2006 – 2007 Admission and Financial Aid Committee, 2007 Library Advisory Committee, 2006

SERVICE: HARVARD UNIVERSITY Center for Jewish Studies, 2007 – 2012 Center for Jewish Studies Undergraduate Prize Committee, 2007 Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, 2006 – 2007

SERVICE: DEPARTMENT OF HEBREW AND SEMITIC STUDIES, THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON 50th Anniversary Committee Faculty Senate Search Committee, Medieval Hebrew literature

SERVICE: THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Member, Program in Religious Studies Member, Center for Jewish Studies Steering Committee, Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions (LISAR) Curriculum Committee, Center for Jewish Studies Scholarship Committee, Center for Jewish Studies Distinguished Graduate Fellowship Committee, Center for Jewish Studies Speakers Committee, Center for Jewish Studies

LANGUAGES Research expertise in Hebrew (Biblical, Rabbinic, Modern), Aramaic (Biblical, Rabbinic). Speaking proficiency in Modern Hebrew, Indonesian. Study of Greek (Homeric, Attic, New Testament), Classical Chinese, French, German, Spanish

EMPLOYMENT PRIOR TO DOCTORAL STUDIES 1991 – 1993 Office Manager, Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing, Palo Alto, CA.

1990 – 1992 Filing, Pacific Studies Center, Mountain View, CA.

1990 – 1992 Editing, Academic Text Services, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

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1990 Program Manager, Recycling, Downtown Environmental Action Project, Palo Alto, CA.

1988 – 1989 English as a Foreign Language Teacher, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.

1987 – 1988 Substitute Teacher in special education for children and teenagers, Peninsula Children’s Center, Palo Alto, CA. (Prior experience: Volunteer Assistant Teacher in special education for children and teenagers, Peninsula Children’s Center, Palo Alto, CA, and Volunteer Aid, Casa SAY, Social Advocates for Youth, Mountain View, CA.)

1986 Tennis Instructor, Northwestern University summer camps, Chicago, IL.

1985 Ice Hockey Referee, Evanston, IL.

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