Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi, Ph.D., is a scholar and teacher with expertise in Tanakh, ethics, and multifaith studies, and a special interest in the way stories shape communal identity. In addition to serving as the Director of the Center for Jewish Ethics, she also helps students with disabilities get the accommodations they need to participate in the RRC learning community. Mbuvi is passionate about dynamic, inclusive Jewish communities that cultivate what she likes to call “blessed interdependence.” In addition to numerous scholarly articles, she is author of the 2016 book, Belonging in Genesis: Biblical Israel and the Politics of Identity Formation, published by Baylor University Press. In the work, she demonstrates how acts of storytelling and transmission define community.
Courses taught:
Contemporary Jewish Landscape
Senior Capstone
Sharing Scripture
Multifaith Literature
Stories of Power: The Rise and Fall of the “United Monarchy”
