Assistant Professor
My primary area of research is in the study of contemporary interreligious relations, with a focus on Jewish-Christian relations. My recent research includes work in memory and place studies, the experience of time in religious ritual, interreligious relations in Jerusalem, and antisemitism studies.
BOOKS
The Nun in the Synagogue: Lives on the Border. (Pennsylvania State University Press; forthcoming).
Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics: Ways of Seeing the Religious Other. Brill-Rodopi, 2018.
Remembering the Future: The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Liturgy. Liturgical Press, 2015.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“Christian-Jewish Dialogue in the Monasteries of Jerusalem: An Evolution of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies Vol. 53, no. 4 (Fall 2018): 521-540.
“Constructions of Christian Identity and the Idea of the Holy Land: A Reciprocal Relationship.” Israel Studies, Vol.23, no. 1 (2018): 177-195.
“Methodological Considerations on the Role of Experience in Comparative Theology.” In How to Do Comparative Theology: European and American Perspectives in Dialogue. Ed. F.X. Clooney and K. von Stosch, 259-270. Fordham University Press, 2018.
“Theorizing Sacred Place in Jerusalem: Identity, Yearning, and the Invention of Tradition.” Journal of Beliefs and Values, Vol. 38, no. 3 (2017).
“Sacred Time as Sacred Space: The Spaces of Memory and Anticipation in Christianity and Judaism.” In Contested Spaces, Common Ground? Ed. O. Birger Leirvik, L. Rodriguez, and U. Winkler, 73-81. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2016.
“Psalmic Recitation as a Performance of Memory and Hope in Jewish and Christian Prayer.” Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, Vol. 12, no. 1 (2013).
“Embodying Tradition: Liturgical Performance as a Site for Interreligious Learning.” CrossCurrents, Vol. 62, no. 3 (2012): 371-380.
