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Mika Ahuvia is an Associate Professor and holds the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She serves as Director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. Her research focuses on Late Antique Jewish history, examining Rabbinic sources, ritual texts, liturgical poetry, and early mystical literature. She earned her Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University in 2014, specializing in the formation of Judaism and Christianity in late antiquity.
Her work explores themes such as angelology in ancient Jewish practices, gender in religious contexts, and the interplay between ritual and textual tradition. Her book On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel (2021) investigates angelic conceptions in foundational Jewish texts, while her edited volume Placing Ancient Texts (2019) examines ritual and spatial rhetoric. She has published widely on topics like violence in Rabbinic literature and gendered terminology in late antique Jewish sources.
Ahuvia teaches courses in Jewish Studies, Comparative Religion, and Global Studies, including The Sages: Foundations of Classical Judaism and Angels: From the Bible to American Spirituality. She currently is not accepting new MA or PhD students for the 2025–2026 academic year.
