Nora L. Rubel

Nora Rubel is the Elizabeth Denio Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester. Rubel teaches and writes on a wide variety of topics related to gender, race and ethnicity in American religion, particularly in relation to food and popular culture. She is the author of Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination (Columbia University Press 2009) and Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of The Settlement Cook Book (Columbia University Press 2026), as well as co-editor of Religion, Food and Eating in North America (CUP 2014) and Blessings Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family (Rutgers University Press, 2024).