Dr.
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg is the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Endowed Chair
of Religion and Founding Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Rollins
College in Winter Park, Florida. Her fields of teaching and research include
modern and contemporary Jewish thought, comparative religion, women and
religion, cross-cultural views of love and the body, and gender, sexuality, and
religion. Dr. Greenberg is the author of
Better than Wine: Love, Poetry and Prayer
in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig, the 2 volume Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, nominated for the American
Academy of Religion Book award for 2009, and
editor of From Spinoza to Levinas:
Hermeneutical, Ethical, and Political Issues in Modern and Contemporary Jewish
Philosophy. She has written numerous articles and
essays in modern and contemporary Jewish thought, and in comparative Hindu and Jewish
philosophy and religion. Her recent books include The Body in Religion:
Crosscultural Perspectives, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, and Dharma
and Halacha:
Comparative Studies in
Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion, Lexington Books, 2018.
Dr. Greenberg lectures nationally
and internationally on philosophical topics related to love, body, and gender. She
has been active in numerous scholarly societies and organizations such as the
American Academy of Religion, where she served as co-chair of the Studies in
Judaism Section and the Comparative Study of Judaisms and Hinduisms Group, the Association
for Jewish Studies, the Parliament of the Worlds’ Religions, and the International
Comparative Literature Association. She serves on the editorial board of the
Journal of the American Academy of Religion and is General Editor of Studies in Judaism Series for Peter Lang
Academic Publishers. Dr. Greenberg is a recipient of numerous awards including three
Fulbright Scholar Awards; the Cornell Distinguished Faculty Award, the Arthur
Vining Davis Award, and the Presidential Award for the Promotion of Diversity
and Inclusion from Rollins College; the Templeton Course Prize in Science and
Religion, and the Harvard University Pluralism Project Grant. She was a
Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in 2015 in India, and a Visiting Research Fellow in
2017 at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute
for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During
the Summer of 2018, she was a Research Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universität, and starting
in January 2019, she will be a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar at the University of
Mumbai in India.