Rachel Slutsky, Ph.D.

Monsignor John Oesterreicher Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity
Department of Religion

Rachel Slutsky, Ph.D., is the Monsignor John Oesterreicher Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity at Seton Hall University. She completed her doctorate in ancient Judaism at Harvard University in May 2022, where she held the Isadore Twersky Fellowship (2021-2022) and served as the assistant director of undergraduate studies in the Committee on the Study of Religion (2020-2021). Slutsky's work explores the ways in which ancient and modern discourses employ Jewish law to cultivate communal self-understanding in juxtaposition to other Jews and the non-Jewish world more broadly. She is currently working on her first monograph, tentatively titled The Gentile Enigma: Divine Law and Identity in Early Judaism, based on her dissertation.

Slutsky has held numerous fellowships, including a Summer Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania’s Katz Center, a FLAS Fellowship in Yiddish at the University of Chicago, a Pedagogy Fellowship from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and numerous Center for Jewish Studies fellowships from Harvard University.