Jennifer Thompson, Master of Theological Studies

Graduate Fellow, Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life, Emory University

Jennifer Thompson will receive a Ph.D. from the Ethics and Society Program of the Graduate Division of Religion in May 2010. Her dissertation, "Continuity Through Transformation: American Jews, Judaism, and Intermarriage," uses ethnography to explore the ways in which discourses about American Jewish intermarriage fails to reflect the lived experiences and concerns of actual intermarried couples. Jennifer Thompson and her son, SamJennifer Thompson and her son, SamEnlarge this imageShe earned a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a B.A. from Brandeis University.