Jill Hicks-Keeton
Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
Ph.D., Duke University
Jill Hicks-Keeton (Ph.D, Duke University) is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. Her book Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2018), was awarded the 2020 Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise, an international first book award. She is the author, with Cavan Concannon, of Does Scripture Speak for Itself? The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and co-editor of The Museum of the Bible: A Critical Introduction (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019) and The Ways that Often Parted (SBL Press, 2018). Her writing has appeared in Religion Dispatches, Religion & Politics, Ancient Jew Review, The Revealer, and The Bible and Interpretation. Hicks-Keeton has been awarded the Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar Award and has served as a Humanities Forum Fellow, a Risser Innovative Teaching Fellow, and Honors College Presidential Teaching Fellow at the University of Oklahoma.
