Deidre Butler

Deidre Butler, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Religion program at Carleton University and Director of the Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies. Butler is a religious studies scholar whose research deepens our understanding of contemporary Jewish life through ethnographic research. She is lead researcher of the Hear Our Voices project which centres oral history within the study of the Holocaust. Butler is currently completing a monograph with Betina Appel Kuzmarov on Jewish divorce across denominations in Canada based on interview research with divorced women, men, rabbis and key stakeholders. She is also leading the Canadian qualitative research for an international team studying the impact of antisemitism on faculty. Butler is co-founder of NECA the Network for Engaged Canadian Academics and is an ISGAP Fellow.

Selected Publications

2012. “Modern Jewish Thought and Jewish Feminist Thought: An Uncommon
Conversation”. Religion Compass, 6: 51–71. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00334.x
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00334.x/abstract

2011. “Voicing a New Midrash: Women’s Holocaust Writing As Jewish Feminist
Response,” Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Vol. 8:1
http://wjudaism.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wjudaism/article/view/16009/13015

2011. “Disturbing Boundaries: Developing Jewish Feminist Ethics with Buber, Levinas and
Fackenheim.” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. Vol. 10:3, 327-352.

2010. “Spirituality, Textual Study and Gender at Nishmat: A Spirited Chavruta.” Women in
Judaism, Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Vol. 7:1
http://wjudaism.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wjudaism/article/view/14664.