Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations
Education:
B.A. in Religion (magna cum laude), Amherst College
M.T.S. in Scriptural Interpretation, Harvard Divinity School
Ph.D. in Religion, Columbia University

Professional Experience:
2022-Present: Invited consultant and reviewer, New American Bible New Testament Revision, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
2021-Present: Member, Board of Governors, International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (official representative of world Jewry in its dialogues with the Vatican, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the World Evangelical Alliance, and the World Council of Churches)
2021-Present: President鈥檚 Advisory Committee, International Council of Christian and Jews
2020-Present: Member, Board of Directors, Stimulus Foundation, Paulist Press
2020-22: Invited Special Issue Editor: Journal Religions issue 鈥淐hristian Theologies of Jews and Judaism鈥� (with Philip A. Cunningham)
2018-Present: Vice-chair, Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations
2015-Present: Jewish Studies consultant, Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations
2014-Present: Academic advisor, National Council of Synagogues (partnership of the Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist movements in Judaism for dialogue with the National Council of Churches and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)
2014鈥�17: Member, Board of Directors, Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations
2011鈥�21: Member, Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
2010-Present: Book review editor, Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations (commissioned, edited, and published approximately twenty book reviews per year)

Grants and Awards:
2022: Recipient, Academic Engagement Network grant for Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations / University of North Carolina survey and research project on American Catholics鈥� views of Jews, Judaism, and Israel
2018: 鈥淐ontemporary Pedagogy and the Ignatian Tradition鈥� Summer Faculty Development Seminar, Office of Teaching and Learning and Office of the Provost, Saint Joseph鈥檚 University
2015: Faculty Summer Research Grant, Saint Joseph鈥檚 University
2012-13: Fellow, Summer Seminars in Theologies of Religious Pluralism and Comparative Theology, American Academy of Religion and Henry Luce Foundation
2012: Coolidge Scholar, Annual Summer Research Colloquium, Association for Religion and Intellectual Life / CrossCurrents
2011: "Transforming Troubling Tellings: The History of the Deicide Charge and the Holocaust,鈥� Summer Seminar for Seminary Faculty and Professors of Religious Studies, Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
2003鈥�04: Fellow, Lady Davis Trust and Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and Fellowship, Interuniversity Program in Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Research:
Jewish Studies
Jewish-Christian Relations
Biblical Interpretation and Hermeneutics
Theologies of the Land of Israel
Christian Theologies of Jews and Judaism
Theodicy
Mission and Conversion