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Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Ph.D., is a professor of history at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. She was born in Kibbutz Afikim, Israel. She received her B.A. in religious studies from SUNY in Stony Brook (1974) and her Ph.D. in Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1978). Prior to joining the faculty of Arizona State University in 1999, she has taught at Columbia University (1982-88), Emory University (1988-1991), and Indiana University (1991-1999). Her research focuses on Jewish intellectual history, feminist philosophy, Judaism and ecology, and religion and science. In addition to many articles and book chapters, she is the author of Between Worlds: The Life and Work of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon (SUNY Press, 1991), which received the award of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the best work in Jewish history for that year, and the author of Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge and Well-Being in Pre-modern Judaism (Hebrew Union College Press, 2003). She is also the editor of Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed World (Harvard University Press, 2002) and Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy (Indiana University Press, 2004). She is currently working on a book titled Judaism and Nature (Rowman & Littlefield), and is editing Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life: The Legacy of Hans Jonas (Brill Academic Publishers).