My current book project is tentatively entitled Not by Virtue Alone: Law, Virtue, and Jewish Thought uses Jewish philosophy to explore how moral rules shape who we are and who we become. It tracks the diverse ways that individuals and communities interact with moral rules and considers how those interactions shape moral subjects. To do this, the book excavates the history of contemporary ethical theory, arguing that the persistent legacy of anti-Judaism has left moral philosophers with two main options for understanding the structure of morality: morality can either be understood primarily in terms of rules and obligation (deontology) or in terms of character development (virtue ethics).

I am also working on a second book project tentatively entitled The Pain of Imagining Others: Infertility and Care in Jewish Thought, explores the unique forms of care performed by those experiencing infertility and pregnancy loss.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

“Toggling: How Shifts Between Deontology and Virtue Ethics Undermine Public Moral Discourse About Gender and Race,” Hypatia (2023).

“‘If You Seek it Like Silver’: Illness and Poverty as Metaphors for Obligation in Israel Salanter,” Journal of Textual Reasoning 14:1 (2023).

“Beyond Form and Content: Using Jewish Ethical Responses to #MeToo as a Resource for Methodology” Journal of Textual Reasoning, 11:1 (2020). 

“Rhetorical and Real: Moses Mendelssohn’s Pluralist Politics.” The Journal of Jewish Ethics. July 2015.

Essays and Contributions to Edited Volumes:

“The Pain of Imagining Others: Caring for the Abstract and the Particular in Jewish Thought” Care Ethics, Spiritual Traditions and Religion. Leuven. Peeters. Eds. Maureen Stadler-Staut and Maurice Hammington. 2022.

“Water Wears Away Stone: Caring for Those We Can Only Imagine,” Nashim: A Journal of Feminist Jewish Thought. Fall 2020. 

“Israel Salanter” Jewish Virtue Ethics. Albany. SUNY University Press. Eds. Alan Mittleman and Geoffrey Claussen. Forthcoming.

“There is No One But God: Pantheism and Panentheism in Feminist Jewish Philosophy” Oxford Handbook of Jewish Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Eds. Paul Franks and Yitzhak Melamed. Forthcoming.

Public Scholarship:

“Care,” Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0 “Keywords” series, Political Theology Network. October 11,2022.

Reviews and Scholarship on Teaching:

Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah in Jewish Thought (Review). Journal of Jewish Ethics. 2021.

“Building Philosophical Partnership: Using Havruta to Teach Philosophical Reading Skills” Wabash Center Journal on Teaching. Spring 2021.

Eternal God/Saving Time (Review). The Journal Of Religion. December 2018.

Selected Presentations:

 “Abstraction and Lived Experience in the Philosophy of Nima Adlerblum (1881-1974)," American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2022.

“Gendering Jewish Tradition” (Roundtable participant), Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, December 2022.

“‘It is As If He Burned the Whole Torah’: Forgiveness, Teshuvah, and Punishment in Tomer Devorah,” Society for Jewish Ethics Annual Meeting, January 2022.

“’What We Need Now Are Human Beings’: Recurring Critiques of Abstraction in Jewish Thought from Franz Rosenzweig to Mara Benjamin,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, December 2021.

“Moral Conflict as a Resource for Jewish Feminist Virtue Ethics,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2021.

“Caring for Abstract Others?: Developing an Ethics of Care that Responds to Experiences of Infertility and Pregnancy Loss,” Society for Jewish Ethics Annual Meeting, January 2021. “The Obligation of Piety?: Character Formation, Law, and Gender in Israel Salanter” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, December 2020.

“’There is no sickness greater than the feeling of despair’: Halakhah, Emotion, and Virtue in Musar Literature” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2020.

“Like a Dead Weight on the Intellect’s Wings: Can We Read Moses Mendelssohn’s Pedagogy as Non-Ideal Theory?” Society for Jewish Ethics Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2020.

“Moral Perfectionism in Imperfect Conditions: Moses Mendelssohn on Moral Subject Formation,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, December 2019.

“Mushrooms and Lullabies: Caregiving, Child-rearing and Public Halakhic Roles,” Society for Jewish Ethics Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, January 2019.

"When Will Translation be Possible?: Translation and Public Reason in Modern Jewish Thought,” Society for Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, January 2018.

“Translation in Jewish Thought as a Model for Constructive Work in the Study of Religion,” Traditions of Swift Hall: Constructive Work in the Study of Religion, University of Chicago, June 2017.