Shai Secunda
Dr. Shai Secunda is Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism at Bard College. He earned a bachelor's degree in Talmudic Literature from Ner Israel Rabbinical College, a master's in Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University, and an MA and PhD from Yeshiva University. He was the Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, and he served as a member of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Shai has written two books: The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian Context and The Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstruation and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and Its Sasanian Context. The latter was a finalist for the 2022 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award. He also edited two volumes on Jewish and Iranian studies.