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Ashley L. Bacchi is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Jewish History at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), serving as a WSRP Research Associate for 2024–25. She holds an Assistant Professor position at Starr King School for the Ministry, focusing on Jewish History and Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Her research investigates the Sibyl as a symbol of female prophetic justice across Archaic Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian traditions, analyzing textual and visual representations to challenge gender hierarchies in religious and political authority.
Educated at Hartwick College (BA), the Graduate Theological Union (MA, PhD), Bacchi employs interdisciplinary methods from classics, art history, and archaeology. Her work addresses gender diversity in leadership and critiques systems of oppression through marginalized voices in antiquity. She teaches courses like HDS 1983: The Sibylline Oracles and has published in Zutot, Journal of Feminist Studies and Religion, and Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Her award-winning monograph (Brill, 2020) reinterprets Book III of the Sibylline Oracles through feminist and intersectional lenses.
