 | Christine Haye |
Christine Hayes, newly appointed as the Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica, is an authority on Rabbinic and Talmudic studies, and the history and literature of Judaism in late antiquity.
Hayes was honored with Yale's Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities at this year's Commencement. She has led courses on the study of Talmud, the Hebrew Bible and biblical Hebrew, among other topics. She serves as director of undergraduate studies in Judaic studies.
Hayes' books include "Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds," which won the Salo Baron Prize for a First Book in Jewish Thought and Literature, and "Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud," which was a finalist for the 2003 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship. Her textbook, "The Emergence of Judaism" is under contract with Greenwood Press, and she is at work on another book titled "Rabbinic Authority, Rabbinic Anxiety."
Hayes joined the Yale faculty in 1996 and was named a full professor in 2002. She previously taught for three years at Princeton University. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
In 2003, Hayes was awarded a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which allows mid-career faculty in the humanities and social sciences the opportunity to pursue scholarly training outside of their own disciplines. During the 2005-2006 academic year, Hayes will use her fellowship to study at the Yale Law School and work on her book exploring rabbinic authority.
The Yale scholar has lectured at conferences and colloquia at universities throughout the United States, in Europe and in Israel, and has been a frequent lecturer at synagogues in Connecticut and beyond.
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Hayes designated as Weis Professor
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