Dr. Katja Vehlow is interested in medieval Islamicate historiography, inter-religious polemics, gender, and graphic novels. She is currently completing an analytical edition of the historical writings of the Jewish Iberian philosopher Abraham ibn Daud (d. c. 1180). Dr. Vehlow received her Ph.D. from New York University, after studies in Germany, the UK, and Israel. She was a Weinstein Post-Doctoral Fellow and concurrently an Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison and has been teaching at the University of South Carolina since 2008.

Selected publications:

Abraham Ibn Daud's Dorot Olam. A critical edition. (forthcoming)

"Jewish historiography in Islamic Lands" in Robert Chazan, Marina Rustow (eds.), The Cambridge History of Judaism, volumes, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

"The Rabbinic Legend of the Septuagint in Abraham Ibn Daud’s Writings" in Ineke van’t Spijker (ed.), The Multiple Meaning of Scripture: the Role of Exegesis in Early Christian and Medieval Culture, Commentaria Vol. 2 , Brill, 2008, 41-59.

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She teaches the following courses:
Introduction to Religious Studies
Jewish History I: Late Antiquity to 1500
Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible
Holy Women in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Introduction to Judaism
Classical Jewish Texts
Jewish Messianism
Jews and Christians
Jews and Muslims
Jews and Race