Meirav Jones is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University and a Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She received her PhD in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013 and has since held research and teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, Tel Aviv University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2022 she won a teaching award for her McMaster course, Religion and Law. Her book, England's Israel and the Foundations of Modern Political Thought, will be published in July by University of Pennsylvania Press. Her research examines the intersection between traditional Jewish and religious sources and political and legal thought, recovering religious roots of secular legal and political ideas, and critically approaching the secular establishment with a rethinking of the role of religion at its foundations. Her work has been published in such outlets as Journal of the History of Ideas, History of Political Thought, and Review of International Studies, and she is currently engaged in a critical rethinking of Jewish sovereignty and Westphalian sovereignty, in tandem, towards a constructive contribution to post-sovereign thought that takes religion seriously.

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