Curriculum Vitae

“So that no one can say ‘This is Jezebel’”: Gender in biblical sites of memory,” Gender in the Eastern Mediterranean and Ancient Near East workshop 7, Rome, 2026. 

“Framing Jezebel: Elite Foreign Women and the Politics of Gender,” Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November 2025. 

“Beyond Close Reading: Imagining Ancient Women in Graphic Detail,” American Schools of Overseas Research, Chicago 2023.

“Doubling Down on Dissolving Dichotomies: Magic as Religion,” Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, November 2022 (invited Panel Respondent).

“Beyond Close Reading: Imagining Jezebel in Graphic Detail,” Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, November 2022.

“Between Worlds: Jezebel in the Image of Elite Iron Age Women,” Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, November 2022 (with Sarah Malena).

“Imagining Jezebel: Illustrating the Power of the Other in Israelite Imagination,” X International Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies, Ibiza, October 2022.

“Interpreting Iconography: A Polysemic and Multivalent Approach to Understanding Judean Pillar Figurines,” Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio (virtual), November 2021.

“Gender and Embodiment in Iconographical Analysis,” Gender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East workshop presentation, Helsinki (virtual), June 2021.

“Implicit and Explicit Comparison in Religious Studies Scholarship,” Invited Panelist, American Academy of Religion annual meeting (virtual), November 2020.

“From Feminism to Gender: Methods in Reconstructing History and Interpreting Iconography,” American Schools of Oriental Research, San Diego, November 2019.

“The Essence of Conception: Philology and the Physics of Fertility in Ancient Israel,” Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, November 2018.

“What is Gendered Historiography and How Do You Do It?” Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, November 2016.

“Rejecting Patriarchy: On Clarifying the Objectives of Feminist Biblical Scholarship,” Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2014.

“Re-Figuring ‘Fertility’ Figurines: Fetishistic Functions of the Feminine Form,” presented at American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting as Invited Panelist on “Voodoo Dolls of the Ancient Near East,” New Orleans, November 2009. 

“The Judean Pillar Figurines: Interpreting Iconography,” Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November 2008.

“Text and Context: Considerations on the Iconography of Goddesses in Ancient Israel,” Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2007.

“Ritual Turf Wars: Understanding the Biblical Ban on Magic and Divination,” Society of Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, November 2005.

“Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Drawing a Line Between ‘Magic’ and ‘Ritual’ in the Torah,” Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, November 2003.

“The Goddess in the Garden: Transformative Mythology in the Pentateuch,” Society of Biblical Literature, Pacific Coast Region, Claremont, March 2002. Awarded Regional Scholarship.

“Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Finding and Defining Magic in the Hebrew Bible,” Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, November 2001.

“The Disappearance of the Goddess,” Society of Biblical Literature, Nashville, November 2000. 

“Asherah and Transformative Mythology in the Hebrew Bible,” Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, December 1999.

“Imagining Jezebel in Graphic Detail: A Digital Humanities Project,” Biblical Studies Symposium, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 2024.

“A Goddess in the Garden? The Fall of Eve,” English-language lecture at the Bible Lands Museum (Academic Lecture Series), Jerusalem, February, 2024.

“Scroll and Spade: Where the Bible and Archaeology Do, and Do Not, Intersect,” Invited Lecture, Wirth Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, October 2021.

“The Exodus: Myth or History?” Irving & Regina Rosen Public Lecture, Queen’s University, Kingston, March 2019.

“On Women’s Bibles and the Bible’s Women: Feminism in Biblical Scholarship,” Invited Lecture, Journal of the History of Ideas 75th Anniversary Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia May 2014.

“A Goddess in the Garden? The Fall of Eve,” “Genesis as Myth and History,” and “The Bible, God, and Sex,” 3-part Invited Lecture Series on the Hebrew Bible sponsored by the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, February 2012.

“Female Figurines from Biblical Israel: Issues in Interpreting Iconography,” Invited Lecture for Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education, Manhattan, October 2008.

“Finding Goddesses and Matriarchies in the Archaeological Record,” Invited Lecture sponsored by the program in Jewish Studies, Northeastern University, March 2007.

“A Goddess in the Garden?” Invited Lecture, DePauw University, Greencastle, January 2006. 

“The Fall of Eve,” Cornell University, Department of Near Eastern Studies, February 2005; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, January 2006; and Lawrence University, Appleton, January 2006.

“A Goddess in the Garden? The Fall of Eve and the Rise of Monotheism,” Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, February 2004.

(Note: I have offered dozens of public lectures across North America since 1998, too many to list in full here)

“A History of the ‘Holy Land’” public lecture series on zoom (across Canada); Part 1 (5 weeks) May-June 2025, Part 2 (5 weeks) August 2025.

“The Temple Mount & the Noble Sanctuary: Highlights from the History of a Highly Contested          Space,” Public lecture, Jewish Community of Ottawa, January 2025.

Video Interviews for BibleOdyssey.com, the Society of Biblical Literature’s site for public scholarship; a 3 part series entitled “Satan: From Title to Proper Name.” 

“History, the Bible, and the Holy Land: Between Fact & Fiction,” 5-part lecture series open to the public, Zoom, February-March 2024.

“Imagining Jezebel in Her Ancient Context,” 4-part lecture series open to the public, Zoom, March-April 2023.

“The Exodus: Historical Questions and Geographical Routes,” Public Lecture (online) for Adath Shalom Congregation of Ottawa, January 2023.

“The Hebrew Bible in its Ancient Context,” 5 part Lecture Series, open to community members via Zoom, May-June 2022.

“Genesis as Myth & History,” 3-part Public Lecture Series for Carleton University’s LLeaP program, February 2022.

“Virtual Tour: Israel Museum Archaeology Wing,” Public Lecture (online) for Adath Shalom Congregation of Ottawa, January 2022.

“Patriarchy is Complicated,” Public Lecture (online) for Adath Shalom Congregation of Ottawa, July 2021. 

“The Exodus: Myth or History?” Invited Glebe Lecture, Glebe Community Center, January 2020.

“Identity Politics in Ancient Israel,” Invited Lecture (online) for the Jewish Community Center of Ottawa, April 2020.

“Priests, Prophets, and the Politics of Magic in Ancient Israel,” Public Lecture (online) for Adath Shalom Congregation of Ottawa, April 2020.

“The Bible’s Kosher Laws: or, Why Balk at Bacon and Loathe Lobster?” Public Lecture (online) for Adath Shalom Congregation of Ottawa, April 2020.

“Deuteronomy and the Origins of Judaism,” Public Lecture (online) for Adath Shalom Congregation of Ottawa, August 2020. 

“History & Meaning: Connecting the Story of Joseph in Egypt with the Story of Hanukkah,” Public Lecture (online) for Adath Shalom Congregation of Ottawa, December 2020.