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Susannah Heschel serves as the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College, holding a faculty appointment in the Religion Department. Her academic leadership extends through elected memberships in the American Academy for Jewish Research and American Society for the Study of Religion, with visiting professorships at Frankfurt, Cape Town, and Princeton Universities.
Her educational background includes:
- A.B. from Trinity College
- M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School
- Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania
Heschel's research centers on 19th-20th century Jewish and Protestant intellectual history, with groundbreaking work on Christian theologians in Nazi Germany, Jewish scholarship on Islam, and the theological roots of antisemitism. Her scholarship uniquely bridges biblical studies, feminist theory, and Holocaust research, examining how religious frameworks shape identity and persecution. Current projects explore European Jewish scholarship on Islam through a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Her recent publications reveal persistent engagement with prophetic tradition across Jewish-Christian contexts, Holocaust memory studies, and the intersection of race/gender in theological ethics. Works consistently analyze how religious texts are weaponized for oppression while recovering marginalized voices in interfaith dialogue.
Honors include:
- National Jewish Book Award for Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus
- Mendelssohn Prize from Leo Baeck Institute
- Five international honorary doctorates
- Guggenheim Fellowship
Research support spans major foundations:
- Current:
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2023-2024)
- Maimonides Institute Fellowship (University of Hamburg, Winter 2024) Previous:
- Rockefeller Fellowship (National Humanities Center)
- Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin Fellowship (2011-2012)
- Carnegie Foundation grants
- Ford Foundation grants
Though not directing formal labs, Heschel collaborates internationally through fellowships at Hamburg's Maimonides Institute and Berlin's Wissenschaftskolleg, advancing comparative research on Jewish-Muslim-Christian intellectual history while mentoring junior scholars through Dartmouth's Jewish Studies Program.
