Julia Watts Belser

Julia Watts Belser is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Georgetown University, with expertise in rabbinic literature and Jewish feminist ethics, with a focus on gender, sexuality, and disability studies. Her most recent scholarly book is Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2018). She served for five years as the founding chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Committee on the Status of People with Disabilities in the Profession.