Aaron J. Hahn Tapper, PhD, is the Mae and Benjamin Swig Professor in Jewish Studies at the University of San Francisco and founding director of the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice. Author of Judaisms: A Twenty-First-Century Introduction to Jews and Jewish Identities, he also co-edited two volumes: Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities and Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates. Aaron is academically fluent in Hebrew and Arabic and has spent significant time studying and visiting Jewish communities in Muslim-majority countries, including Morocco. He completed his doctorate in the Religious Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he studied the history of religions, the sociology of religions, nonviolence and religions, politics and religions, and modern Islamic movements. Aaron has lived and studied abroad in a number of places, including Bir Zeit, Cairo, Fes, the Hague, and Jerusalem.
