Professor Katharina Galor

Katharina Galor is a Senior Lecturer of Judaic Studies at Brown University. She specializes in the visual and material culture of Israel-Palestine with a focus on gender studies. She is the author of Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology (University of California Press, 2017) and Jewish Women: Between Conformity and Agency (Routledge, 2024); the co-author of The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins through the Ottomans (Yale University Press, 2015, with Hanswulf...See more

Katharina Galor is a Senior Lecturer of Judaic Studies at Brown University. She specializes in the visual and material culture of Israel-Palestine with a focus on gender studies. She is the author of Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology (University of California Press, 2017) and Jewish Women: Between Conformity and Agency (Routledge, 2024); the co-author of The Archaeology of Jerusalem: From the Origins through the Ottomans (Yale University Press, 2015, with Hanswulf Bloedhorn) and The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press, 2020, with Sa'ed Atshan) and the co-editor of Gender and Social Norms in Ancient Israel, Early Judaism and Christianity. Texts and Material Culture ( Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements , 2019, with Michaela Bauks and Judith Hartenstein), and Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema (Bloomsbury Press, 2022, with Sa'ed Atshan). See less