Vered Sakal
Department of Philosophy and Religion - Honors Program
Associate Professor
Aaron Professor of Jewish Studies
McMurran Hall 254
vered.sakal@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- MA in Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- MA in Nonprofit and Community Organizations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- MA in Rabbinical Ordination, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- BA in Jewish Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
Teaching
Religions of the West, Jewish Studies, Gender Studies
Research
Religious studies, modern Jewish thought, liberal theory and subaltern studies.
Biography
Vered Sakal is the Bertram and Gladys Aaron Professor of Jewish Studies at Christopher Newport University. During 2021-2023 she was the Melanie and Andrew Goodman visiting fellow for the Olamot Center for Scholarly and Cultural Exchange with Israel, at Indiana University, Bloomington. Sakal holds a PhD in Jewish thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was a fellow at the Tikva Center for Law and Jewish Civilization at NYU, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University, and the Bloomington Symposia, IU Institute for Advanced Study.
Selected Accomplishments
- Vered Sakal, Beneath the Surface: Mordecai Kaplan’s Philosophical Commitments Explored, "Realism, Pluralism and Salvation – Reading Mordecai Kaplan through John Hick," The web. (2024)