I am a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  I received my Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2016, and was previously a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis and the Mellon Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Vanderbilt University.  My research grapples with questions in contemporary political theory and practice by drawing from the history of European political thought, modern and classical Jewish thought, religious studies, social theory, and literature.  I serve as our department's Ph.D. Coordinator and organize the Jerusalem Lecture Series in Political Thought (JSHPT).
 
I am especially interested in questions at the intersection of religion and democracy.  My first book, Solidarity in a Secular Age: From Political Theology to Jewish Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2022), narrates an untold history of European political theology and spotlights a neglected strand of modern Jewish philosophy to propose a new foundation for liberal-democratic solidarity.  My second book, Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy: The Human Hand of Divine Rule (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), shows how the “rule of God” is central to Maimonides' thought and argues for how it might be reconciled with modern democracy.

My work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Religions, Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, The Jewish Review of Books, and the Oxford Handbook of Civil Society.  At Harvard I was awarded the Bowdoin Prize, the university's highest award in the humanities, at Vanderbilt I received the Robert H. Birkby Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and at Hebrew University I was selected for the Rector’s List of Outstanding Teachers.  I have previously been a Golda Meir Fellow, a Mellon/ACLS Fellow, Harvard Presidential Scholar, Fulbright Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Fellow in Ethics, and Harvard Graduate Society Merit Fellow.  I graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from Yale in 2009.