Associate Professor, School of the Environment
On Leave
July 01, 2023 to June 30, 2024
Earth Sciences Building, 33 Willcocks Street, Room 2104, Toronto ON M5S 3E8
416-978-6484
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Environmental Humanities
- Worldviews & Beliefs
Areas of Interest
- Religion and environment
- Faith-based environmentalism
- Faith-based environmental ethics
- Religio-legal approaches to environmental protection
- Wastefulness, consumption, simplicity
I am interested in supervising MES students in the following topics: Faith-based environmentalism (e.g., environmental action in places of worship, Greening of Religion Hypothesis, environmental declarations, Jewish environmentalism, etc.), faith-based environmental ethics, and religio-legal approaches to environmental protection.
Biography
Education
PhD Humanities, York University
MA Geography, Hebrew University
BA Environment, McGill
Awards
- 2025 SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant SSHRC
- 2021 SSHRC Insight Development Grant Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- 2020 Best Book Jewish Thought and Culture Canadian Jewish Literary Awards
Publications
- Shades of green: environmental action in places of worship ( : 2022)
- Engaging faith-based communities in pro-environmental behavior using soft regulations: The case of single-use plastics ( : 2022)
- Compassion and Self-Concern in Halakhic Environmental Decision-Making (Brill : 2021)
- Broadening the Tent: Moral Language and Conservative Environmentalism ( : 2020)
- Waste Not: A Jewish Environmental Ethic (SUNY Press : 2020)
- Food Waste, Religion, and Spirituality: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Approaches ( : 2020)
- Consumption, Wastefulness, and Simplicity in Ultra-Orthodox Communities ( : 2019)
- Rethinking Jewish Approaches to Wastefulness ( : 2019)
- Ultra-Orthodox Recycling Narratives: Implications for Planning and Policy ( : 2010)
- Recycling in Jerusalem: Right or Privilege? ()
- Environmental Embarrassment: Genesis 1:28 vs. Genesis 2:15 ()
Administrative Service
A&S Experiential Learning Faculty Fellow