Dr. Paul E. Nahme is a former Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He is the Dorot Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University.

Paul received his Ph.D. from University of Toronto, and has studied Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Law at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. He previously taught at the University of Kansas, and was a fellow at the NYU School of Law and Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University.

Paul’s academic interests are modern German-Jewish philosophy, French post-structuralism, and modern Rabbinic thought. His research focuses upon questions of identity, race, religion, nationalism, and the dynamics of secularism and public reasoning.