Areas of Research/Interest: Modern Jewish thought and philosophy; the problem of faith and reason in the medieval and modern periods; philosophical approaches to biblical interpretation; the relationship between philosophy and mysticism/kabbalah; theories of religious pluralism; Jewish-Christian polemics in the early modern and modern periods; Maimonides, Spinoza, and Moses Mendelssohn.

Fellowships/Honors: Yad Hanadiv Fellowship (2006-2007), Fellow at the NYU Humanities Initiative (2009-2010)

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Select Publications:
Faith and Freedom: Moses Mendelssohn’s Theological-Political Thought, under contract, Oxford University Press

Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible (editor), under contract, University Press of New England

“Between Judaism and German Enlightenment: Recent Work on Moses Mendelssohn in English” in Religion Compass, 2009

“Aesthetics and the Infinite: Moses Mendelssohn on the Poetics of Biblical Prophecy” in New Directions in Jewish Philosophy eds. Elliot Wolfson and Aaron Hughes, 2009

"Mysticism and Philosophy" in the Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy eds. Steven Nadler and Tamar Rudavsky, 2009

“Counter-Enlightenment in a Jewish Key: Anti-Maimonideanism in 19th Century Neo-Orthodoxy” in The Cultures of Maimonideanism, 2009 (ed. James Robinson)

"Publishing the Moses Mendelssohn Jubilauemsausgabe In Weimar and Nazi Germany" in Leo Baeck Yearbook Annual, 2008

"Spinoza's Method(s) of Biblical Interpretation Reconsidered" in Jewish Studies Quarterly, 2007

"Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysical Defense of Religious Pluralism" in the Journal of Religion, 2006