Contributors
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Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Religion and in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford, 2003), and has just completed a manuscript entitled “Blood: A Critique of Christianity.”
Susanne Hillman holds a doctorate in history from the University of California San Diego. Her work has been published in German Studies Review, Holy Land Studies, The Journal of the History of Ideas, and in an anthology of articles on Margarete Susman. Hillman is currently revising her dissertation, “Wandering Jews: Existential Quests Between Berlin, Zurich, and Zion,” for publication in book form.
John L. Jackson Jr. is the Richard Perry University Professor of Communication, Anthropology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication and the Departments of Anthropology and Africana Studies. He is the author of Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness (Basic, 2008); Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity (University of Chicago Press, 2005); and Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2001). His current book project, to be published by Harvard University Press, focuses on global black Hebrewism.
Bruce Rosenstock is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include New Men: Conversos, Christian Society, and Religion in Fifteenth-Century Spain (University of London, 2003) and Philosophy and the Jewish Question: Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Beyond (Fordham, 2012). He has published in biblical studies, modern Continental thought, and political theology. He is currently at work on a history of the intersection of theology, evolutionary biology, and psychophysics from Gustav Fechner to Quentin Meillassoux.
Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is the inaugural holder of the William M. Suttles Chair in Religious Studies at Georgia State University. He recently authored two books focused directly on certain problematic biblical themes: God Gardened East: A Gardener’s Meditation on the Dynamics of Genesis (Wipf and Stock, 2008), This Tragic Gospel: How John Corrupted the Heart of Christianity (Jossey-Bass, 2008), and Winckelmann and the Vatican’s First Profane Museum (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Eliza Slavet is the author of Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question (Fordham University Press, 2009). She has taught courses on race and religion, Moses, memory, hearing voices, literary theory, and psychoanalysis. Slavet is currently Associate Director of Art and Technology at the University of California San Diego’s Sixth College.
Shawn R. Tucker is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. His doctoral training was in Modernist responses to World War I, and his most current scholarship focuses on humanities pedagogy, laughter, the virtues and vices in the arts, pride and humility, and Mormonism.
Judith Weisenfeld is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author most recently of Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929–1949 (University of California Press, 2007) and is working on a book titled “Apostles of Race: Religion and Black Racial Identity in the Urban North, 1920–1950.”
