Welcome Professor Rock-Singer!

We are excited to announce that Dr. Cara Rock-Singer will join the UW Religious Studies Program as a tenure-track faculty member starting in Fall 2019. Dr. Rock-Singer received an A.B. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, M.St. in Theology with a focus on Religion and Science from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. In Religion from Columbia University. A scholar of North American Religions, Dr. Rock-Singer’s research and teaching center on the relationship among gender, Judaism, and science in the contemporary United States. Dr. Rock-Singer is currently completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell University, where she is jointly appointed in the Jewish Studies Program and the Science and Technology Studies Department.  She will be teaching RS/GWS 305: Women, Gender and Religion in Fall ’19 and RS/HIS/HISSCI 331: Science, Medicine and Religion in Spring ’20.