Sarit Kattan Gribetz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, and currently serves as Director of Graduate Study in both Religious Studies and Jewish Studies. Her areas of research and teaching include ancient Judaism and rabbinic literature, the study of time, the history of Jerusalem, interreligious polemics, and gender and sexuality.
Her first book, Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Princeton University Press, 2020), received a National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship and a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies. Her second book, A Queen in Jerusalem: Helena of Adiabene and the Malleability of Memory, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press, and her next book, Jerusalem: A Feminist History, is under contract at Princeton University Press. She is also working on discourses of nighttime in rabbinic literature and in the ancient world. She is the co-editor of Time: A Multidisciplinary Introduction (2023); Genesis Rabbah in Text and Context (2016); and Jewish and Christian Cosmogony in Late Antiquity (2013). She has published numerous scholarly articles and pedagogical essays.
Sarit received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University’s Department of Religion. Before joining the faculty at Yale, she spent a decade at Fordham University, where she served as Associate Professor of Classical Judaism in the Theology Department and Co-Director of Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies.