Rachel Feldman awarded a Ralph J. and Sheila Q. Maffei Faculty Fellowship Award

Rachel Feldman, Associate Professor of Religion was awarded a Ralph J. and Sheila Q. Maffei Faculty Fellowship Award. These are awarded to newly tenured and promoted faculty who have demonstrated excellence in their teaching and scholarship. Feldman is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in Judaism, messianic movements, transnational religion, Israel/Palestine, and gender studies. Her book Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age won the AJS Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award and the American Academy of Religion's 2025 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion. Her research has been supported by the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Religion Department congratulates Rachel and all of the other faculty awardees. For more information, please read the full article here.