Dr. Joel Gereboff is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He has served as department chair and faculty head of Religious Studies and was the cofounder of Jewish Studies. He received his PhD from Brown University in History of Judaism in Late Antiquity and his BA from New York University in Philosophy. Dr. Gereboff’s scholarship focuses on issues in Jewish ethics, early rabbinic Judaism and American Judaism. His most recent project deals with the study of Judaism and the emotions, with particular attention to anger, shame and hate. He has served in Arizona on a number of projects related to bioethics, including service on several hospital ethics committees. His teaching has included visiting appointments at the University of California, San Diego, California State University, Northridge, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles and The Academy for Jewish Religion, California.