Susannah Heschel

Susannah Heschel is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, chair of the Jewish Studies Program and a faculty member of the Religion Department. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish and Protestant thought during the 19th and 20th centuries, including the history of biblical scholarship and the history of antisemitism. Her books include Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus; The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany; Jüdischer Islam: Islam und jüdisch-deutsche Selbstbestimmung; and The Woman Question in Jewish Studies, written with Sarah Imhoff, as well as several edited volumes, including a co-edited volume, New Paths: Essays in Honor of Professor Elliot Wolfson, with Glenn Dynner and Shaul Magid, and Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel, as well as numerous articles in English, German, and Hebrew.

Prof. Heschel has received many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the Maimonides Institute in Hamburg, the Moses Mendelssohn Prize of the Leo Baeck Institute, personal grants from the Ford Foundation, and five honorary doctorates from universities in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, and Germany. She is an elected member of the American Society for the Study of Religion and the American Academy for Jewish Research and she has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Cape Town, Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Princeton, and the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.

During the fall semester of 2025, she will deliver the Yosef Yerushalmi Lecture at the University of Munich, and in the spring semester of 2026 she will deliver the Franz Rosenzweig Lectures at Yale University. In February 2026 she will convene a conference on “Sexual Violence and Antisemitism,” thanks to a grant from the Carnegie Corporation.