Michal Bar-Asher Siegal

Additional Projects

• Member of the Young Scholars Forum in the Humanities, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2014-2015)
• Co-organizer of the conference “Rabbis and Other Jews: Rabbinic Literature and Late Antique Judaism,” Yale University (2014)
• Member of the counseling committee for The Israeli Center for Libraries (2013-)
• Part of the academic research group, “Parting of the Ways? Text, Context and Subtext,” The Open University of Israel, dealing with Jewish-Christian interactions (2011-2012).

• Involved in the planning, and part of the teaching faculty, of the new, one-year Masters program in Jewish Studies for international students at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies at Tel-Aviv University. (2011-2012)

• Founder and academic coordinator of the Tel Aviv University, “Advanced Summer Program for the Study of Jewish-Christian Encounters in the First Centuries CE.” A 6-week English-language program, designed for advanced students (M.A., M.Div., M.A.R, Ph.D., etc.) in ancient Judaism and early Christianity. With the guidance of its international academic board of renowned scholars, the program aims is to build bridges between these disciplines, and thus to facilitate interdisciplinary work. The program provides students with basic scholarly skills in the Hebrew language and in rabbinic literature and culture and integrates visits to key locations in the Galilee and Jerusalem. (Summer 2011)

• Founder and academic coordinator of a bi-weekly graduate students seminar. First year, “Religions of the Ancient World,” focused on the introduction of the theory, methodology and current academic research in the field of comparative religion, to Israeli graduate students. The second year, “Ancient Christianity,” focused on the introduction of fundamental texts in the formative years of Christianity. As part of the “Jewish Culture in the Ancient World” - a research group, involving researchers from Haifa University, Bar-Ilan University and Tel-Aviv University. (2010-2012)
• Member of the organizing committee for the Dorushe Annual Graduate Student Conference on Syriac Studies, Notre Dame University (April 2008); Yale University (April 2009)

• Founder and Coordinator of the bi-weekly “Ancient Judaism workshop at Yale: Recent Trends in the Study of Ancient Judaism,” Department of Religious studies (2007-2009). Organize year-long program for graduate students, faculty members and guest speakers to share their most recent research projects, creating a vibrant atmosphere for academic discussions among faculty and graduate students.