Phil Lieberman

Prof. Rabbi Phil Lieberman is Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies and the L.D., Marie and Edwin Gale Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also served as Professor at the United States Naval Academy and Vanderbilt University. He holds an M.A. in Talmud and Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, a L.L.M. in American Law from the George Mason Anton Scalia School of Law, a D.Min from Lipscomb University, and Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. He served as editor of The Cambridge History of Judaism, volume 5 (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and is the author most recently of The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East (Cambridge University Press, 2022). His translation with Lenn Goodman of Maimonides’ Guide to the Perplexed was published by Stanford University Press in May 2024. Lieberman also serves the United States Navy Reserve as a chaplain, currently holding the rank of captain. From 2021-2022, he served as command chaplain at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti.