EMPLOYMENT
Lecturer
Department of Religious Studies
Chapman University
Spring 2021–present
Lecturer
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
University of California, Los Angeles
Fall 2018–Spring 2020
Interlocutor
(Coordinator of the Mizan digital scholarship initiative; head editor, Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations)
Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations
Boston University
January 2015–April 2018
Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies, Elon University
Fall 2013–Fall 2014
Assistant Professor and Distinguished Emerging Scholar
Department of Religious Studies, Elon University
Fall 2007–Spring 2013
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in the Study of Islam, 2008
Department of Religion, Columbia University, New York
Dissertation: The Living Calf of Sinai: Orientalism, “Influence,” and the Foundations of the Islamic Exegetical Tradition (defended May 2007)
M. Phil. in the Study of Islam, 2005
Department of Religion, Columbia University, New York
General examination topics: Early Islam and Late Antiquity; Qur’an, Hadith, and Historiography; Qur’an Interpretation; Jewish-Muslim Relations
M.T.S. (Master of Theological Studies), 1997
Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
Fields of study: Hebrew Bible, Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism, Late Antiquity, Islamic History, Jewish Mysticism
B.A., 1993
Columbia University, New York
Major: Religion
Concentration: Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures