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Charlotte Fonrobert
Associate Professor at Stanford University
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert is an Associate Professor in the Religious Studies department at Stanford University, where she specializes in Judaism, particularly in the areas of Talmudic literature and culture. Born in 1965 in Düsseldorf, West Germany, she completed her graduate training at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, under the supervision of Daniel Boyarin.
Her research interests encompass various themes, including gender in Jewish culture, the dynamics between Judaism and Christianity during Late Antiquity, and the discourses surrounding orthodoxy and heresy. Fonrobert is noted for her contributions to the field, including her book Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (2000), which won the Salo Baron Prize for best first book in Jewish Studies and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Scholarship. She has also published significant articles and essays on topics such as rabbinic legal discourse and gender identity in Jewish contexts.
Currently, she is engaged in a project that explores the relationship between religious identity and space in Jewish and Christian Late Antiquity, and she has co-edited works such as the Cambridge Companion to Rabbinic Literature.1234
