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Dov Weiss is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign specializing in Jewish Studies and serves as a Conrad Humanities Scholar. He completed his PhD at the University of Chicago Divinity School as a Martin Meyer Fellow in 2011. Weiss was awarded the Alan M. Stock Fellowship at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies in 2012. His expertise includes rabbinic theology and biblical interpretation. Weiss is the author of the acclaimed book, "Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism," published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 2017 for scholarship. He is involved in various departments including Religion, Classics, and Medieval Studies at the University. Throughout his career, he has received several prestigious awards including the Conrad Humanities Scholar designation for 2021-2026, the NEH Summer Stipend for his research on rabbinic literature, and other recognitions for his scholarly contributions. Weiss’s research interests encompass the Hebrew Bible, Temple Judaism, rabbinic theology, medieval Jewish mysticism and philosophy, and modern Jewish thought.
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