Part-time Faculty
B.A. Art History, University of Chicago, 1999
M.A. Social Thought, University of Chicago, 2006
Aaron Tugendhaft's scholarly interests explore the history and philosophy of religion, particularly in relation to political philosophy and art theory. His teaching at Gallatin is devoted to studying the relationship between religion and politics through close readings of texts from antiquity to the modern age, while his research focuses more specifically on the religions of the ancient world. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies and a fellowship from NYU's Humanities Initiative, Tugendhaft has published in
Arion and
Kronos and has work forthcoming in such journals as the
Journal of the American Oriental Society ,
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions and
Ugarit-Forschungen . Tugendhaft has worked as a curator, producing the 2008 exhibition
Idol Anxiety for the David and Alfred Smart Museum in Chicago. He subsequently co-edited an anthology of essays under the same title that will appear in August 2011 from Stanford University Press. Tugendhaft's first book,
Baal and Bronze Age Politics , is in preparation and will be published De Gruyter.
