Christine Hayes is an American academic and scholar of Jewish studies, currently serving as the Sterling Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University, specializing in Talmudic and Midrashic studies and Classical Judaica.
10 Facts About Christine Hayes
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Christine Hayes was born to Australian parents living in the United States.
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When Christine Hayes was 11 years old her parents decided to return home to Australia, moving the family first to Sydney and then to Adelaide where Christine Hayes completed her secondary education.
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Christine Hayes interrupted her undergraduate studies in 1982 and worked as a volunteer on an Israeli Kibbutz.
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In 1993, Christine Hayes was appointed assistant professor of Hebrew studies in the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations at Princeton University.
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Christine Hayes has been a visiting professor at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
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From 2012 to 2016, Christine Hayes served as the co-editor of the Association of Jewish Studies Review.
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In 2021 Christine Hayes was named a Sterling Professor, one of the highest academic honors that Yale University bestows.
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Christine Hayes's second book, Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud, is a work of cultural history.
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In 1988, Christine Hayes married Michael Della Rocca, a Sterling professor of philosophy at Yale University.