I teach a wide range of courses in Modern Jewish thought and culture, together with material studies in religion.  My research focuses on modern Jewish conceptions of identity, authority, authenticity, and material conceptions of self.  I have published three books, Moses Hess and Modern Jewish Identity (2001), and 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.