DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES

David Shyovitz (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2011), is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University, and Director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies. His research focuses on medieval European intellectual and cultural history, with a particular emphasis on Jewish history and Jewish-Christian relations. He is the author of A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz (Penn Press, 2017), and has been a visiting fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. His current book project, "O Beastly Jew!" Jews, Animals, and Jewish Animals in the Middle Ages, explores the overlapping ways in which Jewish and Christian authors and artists distinguished humans from animals, and Jews from Christians, over the course of the Middle Ages.