About me
Sam Shuman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and a core faculty member in the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia (UVA). Shuman researches Hasidic Judaism within a global context to rethink larger questions in political theology about race and religion, global capitalism, gender and sexuality, sovereignty and empire. They are currently working on their first book, Of Mice and Hasidic Men, which explores the various forms of saintly mediation performed by Reb Shayele, a Hasidic miracle-worker (1851-1925). Shuman’s work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in the Jewish Quarterly Review, Shofar, Images: A Journal of Jewish Art & Visual Culture, and Religions, and as chapters in Jewish Studies Now: The Relational Politics of Memory and How Transparency Works: Ethnographies of Global Value.
