• University of Toronto, Ph.D. in Anthropology, 1998
• Oxford University M.St. in Anthropology, 1993
• Wellesley College, B.A. in History, 1991

 UNDERGRADUATE

Anthropology of Religion

• Culture and Religion (RS/ANTHROP3AR3, third year course)

Judaism

• Introduction to Judaism (RS2J03, second year course)
• Judaism in the Modern World (formerly Judaism and the Jewish People in the Twentieth Century) (RS/HIST3ZZ3, third year course)
• Topics in Jewish Studies (RS3GG3, third year course)
• Contemporary Judaism (fourth year reading course)

 Religion, Health, and Healing

• Health, Healing, and Religion (RS2WW3, second year course)
• Healing Traditions (HST4F03, fourth year seminar)
• Introduction to Health Studies (HST1A03, first year course, team taught with Dr. A. Gildiner)
• Health in Cross-Cultural and International Perspective (HST4D03, fourth year seminar)
• African Ritual Healing Systems (fourth year reading course)
• New Age Healing in North America (graduate reading course)
• Ritual and Symbolic Healing (RS796)

Islam

• Introduction to Islam (RS2Q03; second year course)
• Anthropology of Islam (RS4F03, fourth year seminar)
• Islam in the Modern World (RS2V03, second year course)

 Gender and Women’s Studies

• Anthropology of Women and Gender (third year course), Anthropology, University of Toronto
• Introduction to Women’s Studies (first year course), Institute of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, University of Toronto
• Anthropology Unit, Scientific Perspectives on Sex and Gender (second year course), Institute of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, University of Toronto
• Anthropology of Gender (upper level seminar), Anthropology, University of Calgary

GRADUATE

Gender and Religion

• Gender and Feminist Theory in Religious Studies (RS789)
• Current Debates in Gender and Feminist Theory (GSFR 700)
• Anthropology of Gender (graduate reading course) Religious Studies

Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Globalization

• Religion and Globalization (IGHC 701), Institute for Globalization and the Human Condition
• Introduction to the Anthropology of Religion (RS781)

 Islam

• Jews and Muslims in a Global World (RS/ANT782), Religious Studies
• Anthropology of Islam (graduate reading course), Religious Studies
• Gender and Islam (graduate reading course), Religious Studies
• Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Islam (graduate reading course), Religious Studies
• Elementary Modern Standard Arabic (graduate reading course), Religious Studies

Monographs

• On Doing Fieldwork in Palestine: Advice, Fieldnotes, and Other Thoughts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

• Serious Fun at a Jewish Community Summer Camp: Family, Judaism, and Israel. New York: Lexington Press, 2016.

• Spirits of Palestine: Gender, Society, and Stories of the Jinn. New York: Lexington Press, 2004.

Edited Volumes

• New Age Judaism. Co-edited with Anne Vallely. London: Vallentine Mitchell Press, 2008.

• Feminist (Re)Visions of the Subject: Landscapes, Ethnoscapes, and Theoryscapes. Co-edited with Gail Currie. New York: Lexington Press, 2001.

Journal Articles

• "Jewish Commentaries on Star Wars: Theology, History, and Debate." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. (2019)
• "American Metaphysical Judaism: Rabbi and Shaman Gershon Winkler." Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 17 (2013): 24-39.
• "Islam on the Internet: The Jinn and the Objectification of Islam." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 23 (2011): 358-371.
• "Willful Overlooking: Stories from the Islamic Diaspora and the Palestinian West Bank." Anthropology and Humanism 35 (2010): 101-111.
• "New Age Jews: Jewish Shamanism and Jewish Yoga." Jewish Culture and History 8 (2006). Co-editor (with Anne Vallely) of the issue “New Age Jews.”
• "Jewish Yoga: Experiencing Flexible, Sacred, and Jewish Bodies." Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 10 (2006): 59-76.
• "Hebrew Healing: Jewish Authenticity and Religious Healing in Canada." Journal of Contemporary Religion 21 (2006): 163-182. 
• "Believing Women: Harari and Palestinian Women at Home and in the Canadian Diaspora." Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 20 (2000): 243-259. (with Camilla Gibb)
• "Ties that Bind: Gulf Palestinians in Toronto." Communal/Plural: A Journal of Transnational Studies 8 (2000): 237-255.
• "Proximity and Distance: Palestinian Women’s Social Lives in Diaspora." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 8 (1999): 23-50.
• "Diversity and Community: Palestinian Women in Toronto." Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme 19 (1999): 75-79.
• "Understanding Ghada: The Multiple Meanings of an Attempted Stabbing." Middle East Report (MERIP) 210 (1999): 10-12.
• "A Review of the Anthropological Literature in English on the Palestinian Hamula and the Status of Women." The Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2 (1998-99): 24-48. 

Essays

• “Healing Miracles in Modern Judaism.” In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Volume 15. D. Allison, Jr., C. Helmer, V. Leppin, C. Seow, H. Spieckermann, B. Walfish, E. Ziolkowski, eds. pp. 488-89. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2015.
• “Friendship: Arab States.” In Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume Two. S. Joseph, ed. pp. 189-91. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
• “Modesty and Sexual Restraint.” In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures. C. Ember and M. Ember, eds. pp. 187-91. New York: Kluwer Academic Plenum, 2004.