Ericksen), Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (with David Biale and Michael Galchinsky), and On Being a Jewish Feminist. She has also written The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (2008, Princeton University Press) and the foreword to Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism, and has edited Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (with Robert P. Her monograph Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (1998, University of Chicago Press) won the Abraham Geiger Prize of the Geiger College in Germany and a National Jewish Book Award. She is currently the Eli Black professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College.
In 1992-93 she was the Martin Buber visiting professor of Jewish religious philosophy at the University of Frankfurt she has also taught at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Cape Town, and Princeton University. Frequently in Germany to lecture, she serves on the Beirat of the Zentrum Jüdische Studien in Berlin. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013. In 2011-12 she held a fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. One of those conferences honored the Arab philosopher Sadik al-Azm another examined "Ink and Blood: Textuality and the Humane", at which Quranic scholar Angelika Neuwirth delivered the opening keynote address. In 2005, she received an academic fellowship from the Ford Foundation, which she used to convene a series of international conferences, held at Dartmouth College, that brought together scholars in the fields of Jewish Studies and Islamic Studies to discuss a range of issues.
She was a Rockefeller Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 1997-98, received a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship in Islamic Studies in 2008, and spent two years at the Tufts University Humanities Center. Heschel served as assistant professor of Religion at Southern Methodist University from 1989 to 1991, and as Abba Hillel Silver associate professor of Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University from 1991 to 1998. In 1972, Heschel asked the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York to consider her application to its rabbinical school, although she knew it did not ordain women at that time.
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