Jewish Studies and Religious Studies Professor Jessica Andruss was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Professor Andruss studies the intersections between Jewish and Muslim intellectual and cultural history in the medieval Islamic world. Her regular classes include “Jerusalem,” “Jewish-Muslim Relations,” “Prophecy in Islam and Judaism,” and reading courses in Hebrew and Arabic. Her book, Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem (Oxford, 2023), was described by David Nirenberg, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, as a "a triple achievement and a gift."