Part-time Faculty
B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1997
M.A., Union Theological Seminary, 2000
M.A., Columbia University, 2002
Scott Korb is a writer and documentary editor whose interests range from religious belief and its popular expressions, to food and culture, to studies of race and gender within a 19th-century American context. Korb has published essays in Harper's, Gastronomica, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Baltimore Sun. His latest book, Life in Year One, a popular history of first-century Palestine, was published by Riverhead in 2010. He's also the coauthor, with Peter Bebergal, of The Faith Between Us (Bloomsbury, 2007), a series of personal essays that explores the possibility of living faithfully without belief, while nevertheless considering the meaning of God. Korb is also associate editor of the Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (UNC Press, 2008), the first and possibly only papers collection that will ever exist of a woman held in slavery. His current work is a book called America, Meet Islam (Beacon Press, 2013), a closely observed narrative account of the inaugural class of Zaytuna College, the nation's first four-year Muslim College.
