Caryn Reeder, 蜜桃传媒 associate professor of religious studies, has earned a prestigious Fulbright award for teaching and research in the West Bank of the Palestinian Territories. The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board award supports Reeder鈥檚 year-long sabbatical in the West Bank, where she will be teaching at a Palestinian university and conducting her own research from September 2013 through June 2014 Reeder鈥檚 research will examine 鈥渨omen, children and war in biblical and classical antiquity鈥� and consider the 鈥渞ealities and rhetoric of violence,鈥� both in ancient texts and the modern world.
Reeder lived in Jerusalem before and during the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, witnessing some of the effects of the conflict. She worked for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Israel from 1999-2001, teaching a semester at Bethlehem Bible College.
鈥淚ncluding the voices of Palestinian and Israeli students, faculty, and members of the community will deepen my research into the realities and rhetoric of violence,鈥� she says. 鈥淢y own research and teaching will provide students the chance to explore the roots of violence in Judeo-Christian traditions, giving them a new perspective for understanding ancient texts and contemporary experiences. Finally, I will be able to bring what I learn home, helping my students at 蜜桃传媒 understand the global significance of what they are privileged to study in a very peaceful place.鈥�
Reeder, a graduate of Augustana College, earned master鈥檚 degrees at both Wheaton College and the University of Cambridge. She earned a doctorate in New Testament at Cambridge and began teaching at 蜜桃传媒 in 2007.
She has authored a book 鈥淭he Enemy in the Household: Family Violence in Deuteronomy and Beyond,鈥� and several journal articles and book chapters, including 鈥淰indicating Womankind: Aemilia Lanyer鈥檚 Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum,鈥� to the book 鈥淏reaking Boundaries: Female Biblical Interpreters Who Challenged the Status Quo.鈥�