Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies
Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of biblical scholarship, and the history of anti-Semitism. Her numerous publications include Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award and Germany's Geiger Prize, and The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton University Press). She is the author of over seventy articles and has edited several books, including Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel; Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (with Robert P. Ericksen); Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (with David Biale and Michael Galchinsky).
The recipient of many grants and awards, she has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center, and two years ago received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Colorado College; in 2008 she received an honorary doctorate from the Augustana Theologische Hochschule, a Protestant seminary in Bavaria, Germany. In 2007, she received the John M. Manley Huntington award from Dartmouth, and in 2008 she was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa. During the academic year 2008-2009, she was awarded the Jacobus Family Fellowship.
With a grant from the Ford Foundation, she has convened a series of five international conferences of scholars in the fields of Jewish Studies and Islamic Studies. The Carnegie Foundation has recently awarded her a grant that will give her two years of sabbatical, starting in January 2009, to write a book on the history of Jewish scholarship on Islam.
Prof. Heschel has held visiting professorships at Princeton University, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Frankfurt. Since 1999 she has served on the Academic Advisory Committee of the Research Center of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and on its subcommittee on archival materials and publications.
At Dartmouth she has convened nine major conferences, initiated three ongoing faculty seminars, and invited numerous guest speakers and visiting professors in Jewish Studies, in addition to her teaching and advising. She serves on the faculty in the Jewish Studies Program, the Department of Religion, and the Women's and Gender Studies Program.
