Published Works

“The Textual is Political: Disrupting Jewish Ecology East of Eden.” Journal of Textual Reasoning 16 no. 1 (2025): 7-34.

“Meeting Moses Mendelssohn at the Mikveh: An Ethnodrashy.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 37 no. 2 (2025): 180-195.

“Educating for the New Jerusalem to Deliver the Messianic Age: A Fabulative Friendship with Louis Finkelstein and James Baldwin.” With Leslie Ribovich. Jewish Quarterly Review 115 no. 3 (Summer 2025): 537-565.

“Immersion: The Jewish Ritual Bath in the Protestant Waters of Religion and Science,” Science and Religion: approaches from Science and Technology Studies, ed. Zara T. Kamwendo, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

“The Bat Mitzvah Immersion: Rippling into Adulthood,” “Political Theology of Childhood Forum,” Political Theology Network, October 17, 2023.

“Queer Mikveh.” Jews Across the Americas: 1492-Present, Laura Arnold Leibman and Adriana M. Brodsky, ed., New York University Press, 2023. pp. 475-80

“Natality,” “Critical Theory for Political Theology Keywords,” Political Theology Network, January 31, 2023

“On the Altar of Shekhina: The Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute and the Revival of the Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership.” Jewish Revival(s) Inside Out: Remaking Jewishness in a Post-Secular Age, Rachel Werczberger and Daniel Monterescu, ed., Wayne State University Press, 2022. pp. 245-268

“Milk Sisters: Forging Sisterhood at Kohenet’s Hebrew Priestess Institute.” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies 37 (Fall 2020): 87-114.

“Hadassah and the Gender of Modern Jewish Thought: The Affective, Embodied Messianism of Jessie Sampter, Irma Lindheim, and Nima Adlerblum.” American Jewish History 104, 2/3 (April/July 2020): 423-456.

“Immersions in a Contagious Summer,” Contagion Symposium, Political Theology Network, September 17, 2020.

“A Prophetic Guide for a Perplexed World: Louis Finkelstein and the 1940 Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion.” Religion and American Culture 29(2), May 2019

"Chicken Soup: Women and the Making of the Modern Jewish Home and Nation." Beyond Chicken Soup: Jews and Medicine in America, Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2016

“A New System for Comparative Functional Genomics of Saccharomyces Yeast” Genetics, September 2013

“Chromatin remodelers clear nucleosomes from intrinsically unfavorable sites to establish nucleosome-depleted regions at promoters” Molecular Biology of the Cell, 22(12), 15 June 2011