Rebekah J. Haigh

Publications

Rebekah Haigh and Emily Chesley, “Possibilities in the Past: The Challenges and Payoffs of Public Scholarship.” Ancient Jew Review. Jan 5, 2025.

“Faith and Community Build HOPE and a Connection to Jobs in Detroit,” New America  (May 24, 2021).

“Six Years and No College Degree,” New America (June 1, 2021).

“Travel-Based Learning at Community College,” New America (June 23, 2021).

Podcasting

Women Who Went Before

A gynocentric podcast on the ancient world

Executive Editor and Co-Producer

Episodes

S1E0 “Missing, Presumed…Absent? Where Were All the Ancient Women?

S1E1 “Invisible Women and How They Make History,” with Sarit Kattan Gribetz 

S1E2 “Ghostwriting the Daughters of Men: Whose Writing Is It Anyway?” with Annette Yoshiko Reed 

S1E3 “Fall Girl: Theology, Gender, and How Eve Ruined Us All,” with Elaine Pagels

S1E4 “‘The Two Breasts of the Father’: Does Your God Look Like You?” with Susan Ashbrook Harvey

S1E5 “Was the Oldest Profession a Profession?” with Thomas A. J. McGinn 

S1E6 “Scepter and Sword: African Warrior Queens,” with Solange Ashby

S1E7 “Women Get a Head: Gender and Other Weapons,” with Caryn Tamber-Rosenau 

S1E8 “Suffering Witches to Live: Jewish Women and the Legacies of Religious Law,” with Elizabeth Shanks Alexander

S1E9 “In Her Own Words: Ancient Women Writers,” with Kate Cooper 

S1E10 “Out of Pandora’s Box, Recovering Hope,” with Deborah Lyons

S2E0 “Bodily Matters: The Lifecycle of an Ancient Woman” with Rebekah Haigh and Emily Chesley

S2E1 “Wandering Wombs: Greco-Roman Gynecology and Women’s Health” with Rebecca Flemming

S2E2 “Virginity and the Hype About Hymens in Early Christianity” with Julia Kelto Lillis

S2E3 “Veiled But Not Hidden in Ancient Greece” with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

S2E4 “Blemished Brides: Women’s Bodies and Disability in Ancient Judaism” with Julia Watts Belser

S2E5 “The Pee Test: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Ancient Egypt,” with Ada Nifosi

S2E6 “Bad Blood: The Period Talk in Rabbinic Judaism and Zoroastrianism,” with Shai Secunda

S2E7 “To Have and To Hold: Sexual Violence and the Bible,” with Rhiannon Graybill

Public Outreach

Princeton Religious Literacy Program

Director and Organizer