James Theodore Robinson

Title: Dean of the Divinity School; Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies; Professor of the History of Judaism, Islamic Studies, and the History of Religions in the Divinity School and the College
Education: BA, University of California, Berkeley; MPhil, Oxford University; PhD, Harvard University
Joined UChicago faculty: 2003
jtr@uchicago.edu

James Theodore Robinson

Departmental website:
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/directory/james-theodore-robinson

Prof. James T. Robinson is an expert on Jewish history, thought, and literature. His research focuses on medieval Jewish intellectual history, philosophy and biblical exegesis in the Islamic world and Christian Europe. His main interests lie in the literary and social dimensions of philosophy, and the relation between philosophy and religion. Specific areas of expertise include ethics, political philosophy and psychology; the history of philosophical-allegorical exegesis; the translation and reception of Greek and Arabic philosophy and science; and the interactions between the Jewish, Islamic and Christian intellectual traditions.

Prof. Robinson has published four books and written several scholarly articles.