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Annette Yoshiko Reed (born 1973) is an American religious historian. She holds the Krister Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School. [1] Reed's research interests span the topics of Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity, with particular attention to retheorizing religion, identity, difference, and forgetting. [2] She is the daughter of political scientist Steven Reed and his wife Michiko. [3]
In addition to her scholarship, she is a certified kettlebell instructor and Muay Thai fighter, who won the American Thai Boxing Association (TBA) championship in her age/weight division in 2023. In an interview, she credited training and fighting with improving her university teaching. [4] She has spoken on women and boxing in an event with poet Raisa Tolchinsky. [5]
Reed began her teaching career in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University (2003–2007) before moving to the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (2007–2017). During her time at the University of Pennsylvania, she served as coordinator of the Philadelphia Seminar of Christian Origins as well as Director of the Center for Ancient Studies. She has held multiple fellowships at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. [6] In 2017, she joined the faculty of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Department of Religious Studies at NYU. [7] In July 2021, she joined Harvard University's Divinity School. [8]
Reed is a member of the editorial board of the book series Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism (TSAJ). [9] In 2018, she delivered the Taubman Lecture Series at the University of California, Berkeley. [10] Her 2020 monograph, Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism, was a finalist for the Jewish Book Council's Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award. [11] In 2020, she was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for her project, "Forgetting: Retheorizing the Ancient Jewish Past and its Jewish and Christian Reception." [12]
Reed has written for Salon, [13] Religion Dispatches , [14] and The Immanent Frame. [15] She has also spoken about her work at the Franklin Institute. [16] Reed is a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research. [17]