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EDUCATION

Ph.D.	The Divinity School, the University of Chicago, 1982-1986.
	Doctoral Dissertation: "American Premillennialism and its Attitudes towards the Jewish People, Judaism and Zionism."
M.A.	Religious Studies, the Divinity School, the University of Chicago, 1981-1982.
M.A.	History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1977-1981 (Cum Laude).
B.A.	History, Political Science, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1974-1977 (Cum Laude).

TEACHING

Teaching Positions

Department of Religious Studies, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Assistant Professor, 1994-2000
• Associate Professor, 2000-2005
• Professor 2005-

Department of Religious Studies and Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lecturer, 1986-1994

Teaching Experience

Courses offered in the Department of Religious Studies, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994-2007

• Christian-Jewish Relations throughout the Ages
• The Protestant Tradition
• Introduction to the Study of Religion
• Introduction to Religion in America
• The American Evangelical Tradition
• The Reshaping of the American Religious Map, 1960s-1990s
• Religion in Modern Israel
• Judaism in Our Time
• Introduction to American Judaism
• Introduction to New Religious Movements
• The Holocaust in History and Memory
• Messianic Movements in American History
• Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Judaism
• Evangelism in Contemporary America
• Religion on Campus
• Judaism in the Medieval and Modern Eras
• Progress and Reaction: Liberal and Conservative Trends in American Religion, 1880-1920
• The Christian-Jewish Encounter in America
• Readings in the History of Religion in America, 1865 to the Present

Courses offered in the Department of Religious Studies, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and the School for Overseas Students, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1986-1994

• American Fundamentalism
• Religion, Culture and Society in the United States, 1865-1917
• American Protestantism
• Christianity and the Modern World
• America and American Jewry and the Land of Israel
• America and Israel
• American Christianity and Israel
• Religious Communities in Israel
• Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
• The History and Theology of the Reformation
• Selected Themes in Christian Mysticism
• Introduction to the History of Christianity
• The Mystical Theology of Bernard of Clairvaux

Voted Outstanding Lecturer, the annual student teaching survey of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1987-1988, 1989-1990, 1991-1992

Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem (1992-1993, 1993-1994)

• Religious Communities in Israel

Haifa University, course for undergraduate students (1991-1992)

• Contemporary Christianity and Israel

Sapir College, Shaar Ha Negev (1990-1991)

• Monotheism in Three Acts: Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Teaching and Research Assistant, instructor, courses for first year students; advisor to undergraduate students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1977-1980)

Hebrew Teacher, Kibbutz Gadot (1971-1972)

Theses and Dissertations

Ph.D. dissertations supervised at the University of North Carolina

• Brantley W. Gasaway, "An Alternative Soul of Politics: The Rise of Contemporary Progressive Evangelicalism," conferred 2008
• Benjamin E. Zeller, "Storming the Gates of the Temple of Science: Religion and Science in Three New Religious Movements," conferred 2007
• Nora Rubel, "Muggers in Black Coats: The Representation of Ultra Orthodox Jews in America," conferred 2005

Ph.D. dissertations supervised at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Paul Schmidgall, "American Holiness Churches in the Holy Land, 1890-1990," conferred 1997
• Gabriel Zeldin, "Western Christianity in Jerusalem, 1948-1988," conferred 1994

Member of Ph.D. dissertation committees

• Samantha Baskind (Art History, UNC)
• Julius Bailey (Religious Studies, UNC)
• Karen Bruhn (Religious Studies, UNC)
• Maryellen Davis (Religious Studies, UNC)
• Ramon Ganon (American Studies, Hebrew University)
• Josh Guthman (History, UNC)
• Shanny Luft (Religious Studies, UNC)
• Julie Mell (Religious Studies, UNC)
• Kimberly Moore (Communications, UNC)
• Brendan Pietsch (Religious Studies, Duke)
• Regina Sullivan (History, UNC)
• Jaqueline Whitt (Program on Peace, War and Defense, UNC)
• Jeff Wilson (Religious Studies, UNC)
• Aharon Yaffe (Geography, Hebrew University)
• Ben Zeller (Religious Studies, UNC)

Chair or member of master and honors theses committees at the University of North Carolina

• Bryan Ayers (Religious Studies)
• Barbara Copeland (Religious Studies)
• David Dascal (Anthropology)
• Jaamal Edwards (Religious Studies)
• Lynn Howie (Political Science)
• Callie Jamar (Religious Studies)
• Ashley Klapper (History)
• Michael Klompas (History)
• Richard Leissner (Religious Studies)
• Gregory A. Lipton (Religious Studies)
• Shanny Luft (Religious Studies)
• Cary Miller (Religious Studies)
• Amy Nelson (Political Science)
• Kristopher Norris (International Studies)
• Dave Premawardhana (History)
• Nora Rubel (Religious Studies)
• Aaron Sayne (Religious Studies)
• Joanne Seiff (Religious Studies)
• Brain Stanley (History)
• Catherine Stow (Religious Studies)
• Matthew Viser (School of Journalism)
• Jaqueline Whitt (History)
• Jeff Wilson (Religious Studies)

Rabbinical theses and master theses at the Hebrew Union College

• David Merdich, "The Reform Movement in America: From Anti-Zionism to Zionism, 1917-1947," conferred 1997
• Yaakov Maoz, "Moses Mendelssohn: A Forerunner of the Reform Movement in Judaism?", conferred 1996
• Amir Wind, "Through a Jewish Perspective: From Spinoza to Mendelssohn," conferred 1996
• Dana Kaplan, "Conversion to Judaism in America," conferred 1994

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000. University of North Carolina Press, 2000, x + 368 pages. Read the introduction.

	Winner of the 2002 Albert C. Outler Prize from the American Society of Church History, to the author of the best book published in the two previous calendar years in ecumenical church history.

The Road to Damascus: Memoirs of Captivity. Tel Aviv: Sifriat Poalim, 1998, 100 pages. In Hebrew.

On Behalf of Israel: American Fundamentalist Attitudes Towards Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, 1865-1945. New York, Carlson Publishing Inc., 1991. xv + 172 pages. Preface by Martin E. Marty.

Booklets

"Philosemites or Antisemites? Evangelical Christian Attitudes towards the Jews," a booklet in the ACTASeries. Jerusalem: Vidal Sasson Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002, 62 pages.

"Fundamentalist Christian Zionism: A Portrait of a Pro-Israeli Christian Organization." The Leonard Davis Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1994, 57 pages.

Book Chapters

"Something Old, Something New: The Negotiation of a New Relationship between Judaism and Christianity in America," in From Bavaria to America, edited by Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm. Forthcoming, 2009.

"Is America Christian? Religion in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," in Uneasy Allies, edited by Alan Mittleman, Byron Johnson, and Nancy Isserman. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007, 1-18.

"Christian and Jewish Messianic Groups in Jerusalem of the Late Ottomas Period," in the Jerusalem Book, edited by Haim Goren. Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 2008. In Hebrew.

"Still Ransoming the First Born Sons? Pidyon HaBen and Its Survival in the Jewish Tradition" in Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition, edited by Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange and Dieter Roemheld. Leiden: Brill, 2007, 305-320

"Judaism and Christianity Unite! The Unique Culture of Messianic Judaism," in Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America, vol. 2, edited by Eugene V. Gallagher and W. Michael Ashcraft. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006, 191-222.

"Leipziger Wissenenschceftler als Hüter der Judischen kultur?-Schmu'el Josef Agnon über die Begegnung der Juden mit der Moderne," Bausteine einer Judischen Geschichte der Universität Leipzig, herausgegeben von Stephan Wederhorst. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag GMBH, 2006, 163-188.

"American Judaism and Interfaith Dialogue." In The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism, edited by Dana Evan Kaplan: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 327-344.

"Backwards Christian Soldiers: The Passion of the Christ as a New Page in Jewish-Christian Relationship." In The Yearbook of the International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism. Jerusalem, 2004.

"The Passion of the Christ, and the Passion of the Jews: Mel Gibson’s Film in Light of Jewish-Christian Relations." In Re-Viewing the Passion: Mel Gibson's Film and Its Critics, edited by S. Brent Plate. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 119-146.

"Migration and Conversion: Jewish Converts to Christianity in America at the Turn of the 20th Century." In Simon Dubnow Institute Year Book 3 (2004), 71-87.

"How are Jews and Israel Portrayed in the Left Behind Series?" In Rapture, Revelation and the End Times, edited by Bruce Forbes and Jeanne Kilde. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 131-166.

"An Ambiguous Missionary: Robert Lindsey, a Southern Baptist Evangelist in Israel, 1948-1970." In America and Zion, edited by Jonathan D. Sarna and Eli Lederhandler. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002, 185-200.

"Where the Millennium Begins: Jerusalem in the Millennial Visions of Evangelical Christians." In Millennialism from the Hebrew Bible to the Present, edited by Leonard Greenspoon. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2002, 31-48.

"Miss Daisy's Planet: The Strange World of Reform Judaism in America, 1870-1930." In Platforms and Prayerbooks: Theological and Liturgical Perspectives on Reform Judaism, edited by Dana Evan Kaplan. Oxford, England: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, 49-60.

"The Emergence of American Fundamentalism, 1865-1925." In American Democracy: The Real, the Imagined and the False, edited by Arnon Gotfreund. Tel Aviv: Zmora, Bitan, 2002, 172-195. In Hebrew.

"Christian Fundamentalists and the Temple Mount." In Sovereignty of God and Man: Sanctity and Political Centrality on the Temple Mount, edited by Yitzhak Reiter. Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2001, 143-154. In Hebrew.

"Israel in the Messianic Vision of Fundamentalist Christians." In Messianism and Apocolypse in Judaism, edited by David A. Joel and others. Tel Aviv: Yediot Aharonot, 2001, 230-253. In Hebrew.

"Universalist Aspirations and Tribal Realities: Theology and Social Realities in Reform Judaism in America, 1880-1920," in Proceedings of the Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies. Division B, History of the Jewish People. Jerusalem, 2000, 221-229.

"American Dispensationalists and Jerusalem, 1870-1918." In Jerusalem in the Mind of the Western World, edited by Yehoshua Ben-Arieh and Moshe Davis. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996, 125-138.

"A Christian Fundamentalist Vision of the Middle East: Jan Willem van der Hoeven and the International Christian Embassy." In Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East, edited by R. Scott Appelby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 363-397.

"The Fundamentalist Camp in American Protestantism." In Following Columbus: America 1492-1992, edited by Miriam Eliav-Feldon. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 1996, 271-294. In Hebrew.

"Protestant Attitudes to Jews and Judaism During the Last Fifty Years." In Terms of Survival: The Jewish World Since 1945, edited by Robert S. Wistrich. London: Routledge, 1995, 332-348.

"From Progress to Reaction: the Developments in Evangelical Protestant Attitudes Towards Social and Economic Issues, 1825-1925." In Religion and Economy: Collected Essays, edited by Menahem Ben-Sasson. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 1995, 401-417. In Hebrew.

"From Judaism to Christianity: The Autobiographies of Jewish Converts to Christianity in the Twentieth Century," Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies (1994). Division B, Vol. 2, 123-129. In Hebrew.

"American Fundamentalists and the Establishment of a Jewish State." In New Dimensions in American Religious History, edited by Jay P. Dolan and James P. Wood. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1993, 288-309.

"The French Revolution and the Resurgence of Christian Eschatology." In The French Revolution and its Impact: A Collection of Essays, edited by Richard I. Cohen. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 1991, 319-338. In Hebrew.

"Kaufmann Kohler and His Attitude Towards Zionism: A Re-Examination." In The Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies (1990). Division B, Vol. 1, 361-367. In Hebrew.

Refereed Articles

"Terror at the Holy of Holies: Christians and Jewish Builders of the Temple at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century," in The Context of Religion and Violence, edited by Ronald A. Simkins. Journal and Religion and Society, Supplement Series 2 (2007): 63-82.

"Gay, Orthodox, and Trembling: The Rise of Jewish Orthodox Gay Consciousness." Journal of Homosexuality 52, no. 3/4 (2007): 91-109.

"Can Adam and Eve Reconcile? Gender and Sexuality in a New Jewish Religious Movement." Nova Religio 9, no. 4 (May 2006):53-78.

"An Unexpected Alliance: Christian Zionism and Its Historical Significance," Modern Judaism 26, no. 1 (February 2006): 74-100.

"Good Germans, Confused Jews and the Tragedy of Modernity: S.Y. Agnon Remembers Leipzig," Leipziger Beträge Band III (2005), 275-292.

"When Missionaries Wrote in Yiddish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Yiddish in America." The Mendele Review 7, no. 8 (Summer 2003): 1-14.

"Hasidism in the Age of Aquarius: The House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco, 1967-1977." Religion and American Culture 13, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 139-165.

"The Faithful in a Time of Trial: The Evangelical Understanding of the Holocaust." Journal of Religion and Society 3 (2001).

"Christianity Through Reform Eyes: Kaufmann Kohler’s Scholarship on Christianity." American Jewish History 89, no. 2 (June 2001): 181-191.

"Doomsday in Jerusalem?: Christian Messianic Groups and the Building of the Temple." Terrorism and Political Violence 13, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 1-14.

"Counterculture and Mission: Jews for Jesus and the Vietnam Era Missionary Campaigns, 1970-1975." Religion and American Culture 9, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 233-257.

"Evangelists in a Strange Land: American Missionaries in Israel, 1948-1967." Studies in Contemporary Jewry 14 (1998): 195-213.

"Eschatology, Evangelism and Dialogue: The Presbyterian Mission to the Jews, 1920-1960." American Presbyterians: The Journal of Presbyterian History 75, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 29-41.

"The Evangelist At Our Door: The American Jewish Response to Christian Missionaries, 1880-1920." American Jewish Archives 48 (Fall/Winter 1996): 139-160.

"Born Again in a Land of Paradox: Christian Fundamentalists in Israel." Fides et Historia 28, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 35-49.

"Messianism, Holiness, Charisma and Community: The Protestant American-Swedish Colony in Jerusalem, 1881-1933." Church History 65, no. 4 (December 1996): 641-657 [with Ruth Kark].

"Tradition in Modern Dress: Jews and Judaism in a World of Change: A Response." Jewish History 7 (1993): 125-130.

"In the Shadow of the Millennium: American Fundamentalist and the Jewish People." Studies in Church History 29 (1992): 435-450.

"Recognition, Messianic Hopes and Rejection: The Development of Protestant Attitudes Towards the Jewish People and Judaism Since World War II." Yahadut Zmanenu 7 (1991): 263-281.

"Jewish Suffering and Christian Salvation: The Evangelical-Fundamentalist Holocaust Memoirs." Holocaust and Genocide Studies 6 (1991): 63-78.

"Kaufmann Kohler and His Attitude Towards Zionism, A Re-Examination." American Jewish Archives 43 (1991): 207-223.

"The Emergence of American Fundamentalism, 1865-1925." Zmanim 38 (July 1991): 93-103.

"William E. Blackstone and the Petition of 1916: A Neglected Chapter in the History of Christian Zionism in America." Studies in Contemporary Jewry 7 (1991): 68-85.

"An American Initiative for the Establishment of a Jewish State: William Blackstone and the Petition of 1891." Studies in Zionism 10 (1990): 125-138.

"An American Evangelist and the Jews: Dwight L. Moody and his Attitudes towards the Jewish People." Immanuel 22-23 (1990): 40-49.

"Arno C. Gaebelein and His Attitude Towards the Jewish People and Zionism." Yahadut Zmanenu 6 (1990): 45-63.

"American Fundamentalists and Israel." In Virtue and Necessity: Fundamentalist Trends vs. The Contemporary Middle East. Jerusalem: The Leonard Davis Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (July 1989), 1-26.

"An American Initiative for the Establishment of a Jewish State: William Blackstone and the Petition of 1891." Cathedra for the History of Eretz Israel and the Yishuv 49 (September 1988): 87-102.

Book Reviews

Review of: Awakening of a Jehovah's Witness Escape from the Watchtower Society, by Diane Wilson. Nova Religio 10, no. 2 (2006): 128-130.

Review of: Cross on the Star of David: The Christian World in Israeli's Foreign Policy, 1948-1967, by Uri Bialer. The Journal of Israel: History 26, no. 1 (March 2007): 118-120.

Review of: The Holy Land in English Culture, 1799-1917, by Eitan Bar-Yosef.Mediterranean Historical Review 21, no 2 (December 2006): 289-290.

Review of: From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews, by Ellen M. Umansky. Journal of American History, June 2006, 263-264.

Review of: American Reform Judaism: An Introduction, by Dana Kaplan. Studies in Contemporary Jewry 21 (2006): 355-358.

Review of: On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel's Best Friends, by Timothy P. Weber. The Christian Century, July 26, 2005, 37-38.

Review of: Who Sold This Business to the Gentiles, by Jeffrey S. Wasserman. Nova Religio 9, no. 1 (2005).

Review of: Messianic Judaism, by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Nova Religio 7, no. 3 (March 2004): 119-120.

Review of: A. J. Gordon: An American Premillennialist, by Scott M. Gibson. Church History 72, no. 4 (November 2003): 912-914.

Review Essay: "American Jewry and Israel," American Jewish Archives 54, no. 2 (2002): 106-112.

Review of: The Hebrew Israelite Community, edited by Paul Hare.Nova Religio 6, no.1 (October 2002): 194-195.

Review of: Postville: A Clash of Culture in Heartland America, by Stephen G. Bloom. American Jewish History 89, no. 3 (2002): 313-315.

Review of: War in the Holy Land: From Meggido to the West Bank, by Andrew Duncan and Michael Opatowski. Church History 69, no. 1 (March 2000): 150-151.

Review of: The Holy Land in American Religious Thought, by Gershon Greenberg. American Jewish History 84, no. 1 (March 1996): 50-52.

Review Essay: "American Eyes Toward Zion." American Jewish Archives 47, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 1995): 280-285.

Review of: Pious Passions: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran, by Martin Riesebrodt, translated by Don Reneau. Journal of American History, March 1995, 1782-1783.

Review of: Ahad Ha-Am and the Jewish National Spirit, by Yehiel Alfred Gottschalk. Yahadut Zmanenu 9 (1994): 271-272.

Review of: Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism, by Michael Meyer. Sion 51, no. 1 (1991): 104-107.

Review of: Americans and the Holy Land Through British Eyes, by V. D. Lipman. Yahadut Zmanenu 6 (1990): 387-389.

Review of: With Eyes Towards Zion, edited by Moshe Davis. Gesher 119 (1989): 104-105.

Non-Refereed Articles and Encyclopedia Entries

Homosexuality and Religion: An Encyclopedia (2007), edited by Jeffrey S. Siker. The article: "Judaism."

YNET Encyclopedia (2005). The article:"Evangelicalism."

Five Faiths (2005), edited by Amanda Hughes. The chapter: "An Introduction to Judaism."

Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture (2006), edited by David Shaham. The article: "The Reform Movement and Zionism."

Die Neue RGG Encyclopedia, Handwörterbuch für Theologie und Religionwissenschaft (2004). The article: "Zionismus in Nordamerika."

National Dictionary of American Biography (2004). The article: "Carlebach, Shlomo."

Encyclopedia of Protestantism (2004), edited by Hans Hillerbrand. The articles: "Jews for Jesus," "Missions to Jews."

Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism (2002), edited by Brenda Brasher. The articles: "Jews," "Jews for Jesus."

Contemporary American Religion (2000), edited by Wade Clark Roof. The articles: "Holy Land," "Jews for Jesus," "Seder, Christian."

The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (1996), edited by R.J. Zvi Werblowsky and Jeffrey Wigodor. The articles: "Havura," "Protestantism."

Encyclopedia Britannica, Micropedia (1983). The articles: "Jewish Religious Year," "Judaism," "Midrash," "Talmud."

CONFERENCES

Papers Presented at Professional Conferences

May 2008, "The Genealogy of Jewish Renewal," Resurgence of Mysticism in Contemporary Judaism, University of Beer-Sheva.

April 2008, "Liberal Tribalism: The Paradox of the Early Jewish Reconstructionist Movement," Liberal Religion in America, Princeton.

December 2007, "Reform Judaism and Liberal Christianity at the Turn of the 21st Century," Reform Judaism: History, Theology and Sociology, Jerusalem.

October 2007, "Search and Research: New Perspectives on Jewish Conversions to Christianity in the Late Modern Era," Konversionsforschung- Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven, Hamburg.

October 2007, "German Jewish Scholarship Comes to America," Annual Meeting of the Association for German Studies, San Diego.

December 2006, "Traditionalists in Spite of Themselves: The American Reconstructionist Movement in Its First Generation," Halach and Ideology, Jerusalem, Israel.

December 2006, "Messianic Hopes and American Policies," Meeting of the European Society of
American Studies, Cannes, France.

November 2006, "Spirituality and Rebelling: the Rise of Neo-Hasidism: 1960s-1970s," Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Portland.

August 2006, "The Religious Mainstream as a Non-Historiographic Touchpoint," Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Montreal.

December 2005, "Christian America?" Evangelicals and Jews: An Uneasy Alliance, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York.

November 2005, "Would Two Walk Together Unless They Have Disagreed: The Unexpected Alliance between the Reconstructionist and Renewal movement in Contemporary Judaism," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia.

November 2005, "Terror at the Holy of Holies? Turn of the 21st Century Christian and Jewish Builders of the Temple," Religion and Terrorism in Context, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.

November 2005, "Lubavitc Messianism in Light of Christian Eschatology," Reaching for the Infinite: The Lubavitcher Rebbe--Life, Teachings and Impact, New York University, New York.

May 2005, "Good Germans, Confused Jews and the Tragedy of Modernity: Agnon in Leipzig," Klausurtagung, Simon Dubnow Institut, Leipzig.

May 2005, "Something Old, Something New: The Renegotiation of New Relationship between Judaism and Christianity in America 1865-1917," From Bavaria to America, Tutzing, Germany.

November 2004, "Ritual and Renewal: Creating Jewish Traditions 1960s-1970," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Texas.

October 2004, "Philosemites Embracing the Protocols: Christian Fundamentalists and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," Conference on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: The One Hundred Year Myth and its Impact, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

August 2004, "Do We Follow the Prince of Peace or the Prince of Darkness? Evangelical Morality and Its Impact on American Popular Culture," Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, San Francisco, California.

November 2003, "The Rise of Gay Orthodox Consciousness," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, Georgia.

April 2003, "The Origins and Meaning of Christian Zionism," Christian Zionism, a conference organized by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

February 2003, "‘Fully Assimilated’ Yet Members of the Tribe? The Paradox of German-Jewish Identity in America," Conference on Secondary Conversions, Leipzig, Germany.

November 2002, "A Holy Land Indeed: The American Protestant Relation to Palestine," Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Houston, Texas.

November 2002, "Can Adam and Eve Reconcile: Sexuality and Gender in a New Jewish Religious Movement," Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Salt Lake City, Utah.

June 2002, "Converts as Migrants: The Autobiographies of Jewish Converts to Christianity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," Workshop on Interconfessional Conversion, Leipzig, Germany.

November 2001, "Millennial Faith in the Twenty-First Century," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, Colorado.

December 2000, "When Missionaries Spoke Yiddish: The Yiddish Missionary Literature in America, 1880-1960," Annual Meeting of the Association of Jewish Studies, Boston.

November 2000, "The Faithful in a Time of Trial: The Evangelical Understanding of the Holocaust," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Nashville, Tennessee.

December 1999, "Reform Judaism and Christianity: Kaufmann Kohler and His Vision of Judaism and Christianity," Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago.

November 1999, "Reformers in a Strange Land: Reform Judaism and the Non-Separation of Synagogue and State in Israel," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Boston.

November 1999, "The Intensification of Messianic Hopes: Evangelical Premillennialism and the Year 2000," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Boston.

October 1999, "Where the Millenium Begins: Jerusalem in the Millennial Visions of Evangelical Christians," Twelfth Annual Klutznick Symposium, Omaha.

June 1999, "Christian Messianic Visions and the Temple Mount," Conference on Millennialism and Its Risks: The Case of Jerusalem in 2000, Jerusalem.

June 1999, "The Turning of a New Page? Protestant Attitudes Towards Jews and Judaism in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century," The Dynamics of Anti-Semitism in the Second Half of the 20th Century, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

November 1998, "Religion, Politics, and the State: The Case of the Anti-Missionary Laws in Israel," Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Montreal.

November 1997, "The Focus of Messianic Hopes: The Evangelical Premillennialist View of Jerusalem," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco.

November 1997, "Neo Hasidism in the Age of Aquarius: The House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco, 1965-1975," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco.

November 1997, "Christian Zionism," Zionism at its 100th Birthday: Supporters, Critics, and Opponents, Duke University, Durham, NC.

November 1997, "Christian or Jewish? The Rise of Messianic Judaism, 1970-1980," Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, San Diego.

August 1997, "Universal Aspiration and Parochial Affiliation: Towards a Social History of Reform Judaism in America, 1880-1920," Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem.

December 1996, "The American Jewish Reaction to Christian Missionaries: 1970-1995," Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston.

November 1995, "Christian, Jewish, Charismatic and Yuppie: Beth Yeshua Congregation in Philadelphia," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia.

December 1994, "Evangelizing a Generation of Jewish Seekers: Jews for Jesus and the Vietnam Era Missionary Campaigns," Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston.

April 1994, "Born Again in a Land of Paradox: Christian Fundamentalists in Israel," International Conference on Fundamentalism, Tantur, Israel.

July 1993, "From Judaism to Christianity: The Autobiographies of Jewish Converts to Christianity in the Twentieth Century," Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem.

January 1992, "Interpretation of Scripture and the Critique of Culture: The Case of American Fundamentalists," Colloquium on Return to the Scriptures, College de France, Paris.

June 1991, "American Fundamentalists and the Jewish People," Annual Conference of the Ecclesiastical History Society, Birmingham, England.

June 1991, "Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-1920," a conference on American evangelical institutions organized by the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton, Illinois.

July 1989, "The French Revolution and the Resurgence of Christian Eschatology," Annual Meeting of the Israel Historical Association, Jerusalem.

July 1988, "Kaufmann Kohler and His Attitude Towards Zionism: A Re-Examination," Tenth International Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem.

Other Conference Activities

Coordinator, Duke-UNC Seminar on Judaic Studies, 2001-2008.

Organizer and Coordinator, Carolina Seminar on Judaic Studies, 1997-1999.

Coordinator, Judaism Facing the Twenty-First Century, a conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 1997.

Academic Coordinator, Western Societies and the Holy Land, workshop and symposiums, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989-1994.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND PRIZES

Institute for the Arts and Humanities, North Carolina: Research Fellow, Fall 2004.

The Simon Dubnow Institute, University of Leipzig: Summer Research Fellowship, July-August 2004, 2007.

American Society of Church History: The Albert C. Outler Prize, to the author of the best book published in the two previous calendar years in ecumenical church history, 2002.

The Jerusalem Institute of Israel Research: Research Fellowship, 1999.

The Littauer Foundation, New York: Research Grants, 1990-1991, 1998-1999.

The American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio: Research Grants, 1989, 1995-1996, 2000-2001.

The Louisville Institute (a program of the Lilly Endowment): Research Grant, 1993-1995, 2004-2005.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Junior Faculty Development Award, 1995.

The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations: Research Fellowship, 1987-1988, 1992-1993.

Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York: Doctoral Scholarship Grant, 1984-1985; Research Fellowship, 1988-1989, 1989-1990.

Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton, Illinois: Research Grant, 1988-1989.

The Wiener Library and the School of History, Tel Aviv University: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1988-1989.

The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism: Research Grants, 1987-1988, 2000-2001, 2004-2006.

The Forscheimer Foundation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1986-1987.

Fuerstenberg Fellowship Foundation Award, University of Chicago: 1982-1983, 1983-1984, 1984-1985, 1985-1986.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation: Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1985-1986.

Katherine J. Horowich Scholarship Fund, Chicago: Scholarship Grant, 1984-1985.

Sylvia and Aaron Scheinfeld Foundation, Chicago: Scholarship Grant, 1981-1982, 1983-1984.

SERVICE

Service in the Department of Religious Studies, the University of North Carolina

• Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2000-2002, 2007
• Director of Graduate Studies, 2002-2004
• Member, Salary Committee, 2002-2006
• Liaison for the Press, 1998-2000
• Chair, Lecture Committee, 1999-2000, 2005-2006
• Member, Policy Committee, 1998-1999
• Member, Graduate Studies Committee, 1997-1999
• Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1994-1997, 2000-2002, 2006-2008
• Member or Chair, Search Committees, 1994-95, 1995-96, 2001-2002, 2005-2006, 2006-2007

MEMBERSHIPS

American Academy of Religion
American Jewish Historical Society, member of the Academic Council
American Society of Church History
American Studies Association
Association for Jewish Studies (USA)
Association for the Scientific Study of Jewry (USA)
Association for the Sociology of Religion (USA)
Ecclesiastical History Society (Britain)
German Studies Association (USA)
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (USA)

Last updated May 9, 2008