I am an associate professor of Theology at St. Mary’s University, where I teach courses in the Hebrew Bible and its reception, and religious studies and Theology more broadly. I have also held positions as a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies, and as a Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law Scholar-in-Residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.

My first book, Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in the Babylonian Talmud (August 2022), looks at demonic discourse in the Babylonian Talmud in its legal, narrative, and socio-cultural contexts. My second book, Fetal Positions: The Talmudic Construction of Personhood (forthcoming in March 2027) explores how the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud thought about the status of the fetus in a range of legal contexts.

In addition to my research and my teaching, I seek to contribute meaningfully to scholarly conversations within my discipline and within the larger university community. I have served as co-director of the Association for Jewish Studies’ Paula Hyman Mentorship Program, and co-director of the the Unit on Traditions of the Late Antique East in the American Academy of Religion, and I now serve on both programs’ steering committees.

I completed my Ph.D. in Judaism in Late Antiquity in the Program in Judaic Studies and the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University (2015). I have an MA in Religion from Columbia University and a BA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University.

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