Bio
Dr. Mika Ahuvia is an Associate Professor of Classical Judaism and the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. She received her Ph.D. in religion from Princeton University and her M.A. in Judaic Studies from the University of Michigan. She previously served as Director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington.
Dr. Ahuvia researches the formative history of Jewish communities in the ancient Mediterranean world, with particular focus on angels, ritual-magic, gender, and late antique archaeology. She is also committed to public scholarship and her writing can be found on My Jewish Learning, Pasts Imperfect, and Ancient Jew Review; her online lecture on Jews, Jewish history, and antisemitism has been viewed over a quarter of a million times across 190 countries.
For upcoming talks in the Seattle area and other news, please visit www.mikaahuvia.com.
Publications
- On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture (University of California Press, 2021).
- “Critical Fabulation and the Foundations of Classical Judaism.” Studies in Late Antiquity, 7.1 (2023): 29–74.
- “Reimagining the Gender and Class Dynamics of Premodern Scribal Composition.” Journal of Ancient Judaism, 14 (2023): 321–354.
- “A Woman of Valor in the Late Antique Synagogue: Yannai’s Qedushta to Leviticus 15:25.” Above, Below, Before, and After: Studies on Judaism and Christianity in Dialogue with Martha Himmelfarb. Edited by R. Boustan, D. Frankfurter, and A. Y. Reed. TSAJ. Mohr Siebeck, 2023
- “Gender and the Angels in Late Antique Judaism.” Jewish Studies Quarterly 29.1 (2022): 1–21.