Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, and her numerous publications include a prize-winning monograph, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award and Germany’s Geiger Prize, and most recently, The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians, and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton University Press). She has also edited Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust, Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism, and Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel, among other works. She is the author of over seventy articles.

The recipient of many grants and awards, she was a fellow at the National Humanities Center in 1997-98, and two years ago received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Colorado College; this spring she will receive an honorary doctorate from a Protestant seminary in Germany. With a grant from the Ford Foundation, she has convened a series of five international conferences of scholars in the fields of Jewish Studies and Islamic Studies. The Carnegie Foundation has recently awarded her a grant that will give her two years of sabbatical to write a book on the history of Jewish scholarship on Islam.