Lama Shetzer Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies
I am a scholar of contemporary Judaism, focusing on American Jewish religion, science and technology, and gender. My book Gestating Judaism: The Corporeal Technologies of American Jewish Religion (Chicago University Press, 2026) develops a new analytic technique called ethnodrashy (a combination of rabbinical midrash and ethnography) to explore the centrality of reproductive bodies to the intellectual, political, and spiritual life of American Judaism.