As a member of the religion department at Haverford College, I teach a wide range of courses in modern Jewish thought and culture, together with material studies in religion. My research focuses on Jewish conceptions of identity, authority, authenticity, and material conceptions of self. I have published three books, Moses Hess and Modern Jewish Identity (2001), Abraham Geiger’s Liberal Judaism: Personal Meaning and Religious Authority (2006), and Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America (2010), all with Indiana University Press. I am currently on sabbatical in Jerusalem exploring the ways American Jewish thinkers employ visual discourse to make claims about religious authenticity.