Nomi M. Stolzen­berg holds the Nathan and Lil­ly Shapell Chair at the Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia Gould School of Law. She is a legal schol­ar whose research spans a range of inter­dis­ci­pli­nary inter­ests, includ­ing law and reli­gion, law and lib­er­al­ism, law and fem­i­nism, law and psy­cho­analy­sis, and law and lit­er­a­ture. After get­ting her J.D. at Har­vard Law School in 1987 and clerk­ing for the Hon­or­able John Gib­bons, chief judge of the Third Cir­cuit Court of Appeals, she joined the fac­ul­ty at the USC Gould School in 1988. There, she helped estab­lish the USC Cen­ter for Law, His­to­ry and Cul­ture, one of the pre­em­i­nent cen­ters for the study of law and the human­i­ties. She is the co-author with David N. Myers of Amer­i­can Shtetl: The Mak­ing of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Vil­lage in Upstate New York (Prince­ton, 2022), and the author of numer­ous arti­cles on law and reli­gion, includ­ing the wide­ly cit­ed ​“He Drew a Cir­cle That Shut Me Out: Assim­i­la­tion, Indoc­tri­na­tion, and the Para­dox of a Lib­er­al Edu­ca­tion,” pub­lished in the Har­vard Law Review, ​“Right­ing the Rela­tion­ship Between Race and Reli­gion in Law,” and ​“The Return of Reli­gion: Legal Sec­u­lar­is­m’s Rise and Fall and Pos­si­ble Res­ur­rec­tion.” She is spend­ing the 2022 – 2023 aca­d­e­m­ic year as a vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Law School and as a fel­low at the Katz Cen­ter for Advanced Juda­ic Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia, where she will be work­ing on a new project on reli­gious exemp­tions and the the­o­ry of ​“faith-based discrimination.”