Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in Religion
University of Chicago, 1997
Master's Degree
MA in Humanities
University of Chicago, 1990
Bachelor's Degree
BS in Speech
Northwestern University, 1989
Featured grants
- Raphael, Rebecca. NEH Summer Stipend, $6000. (Funded: 2014). Grant.
- Raphael, Rebecca. Texas State Equity and Access Grants, $3000. (Funded: 2009). Grant.
- Raphael, Rebecca. Religious Studies in Texas: A Mission Without a Major, AAR-Teagle Foundation Seed Grant, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $500. (Funded: 2007). Grant.
- Raphael, Rebecca. Texas Humanities Council Mini-Grant, $1500. (Funded: 2007). Grant.
- Raphael, Rebecca. Martin Marty Seminar Senior Fellowship, University of Chicago, Institutional (Higher Ed), $6000. (Submitted: January 31, 2017, Funded: September 10, 2017 - June 30, 2018). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Raphael, R. (2017). Psyche’s Imperative: Recollections of Leland Roloff the Teacher. Text and Performance Quarterly, 37(2), 97. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10462937.2017.1308544
- Raphael, R. (2011). Whoring after Cripples: On the Intersection of Gender and Disability Imagery in Jeremiah. In J. Schipper & C. Moss (Eds.), The Disability Studies/Biblical Studies Reader. Palgrave/Macmillan.
- Raphael, R. (2010). Monsters in the Crippled Cosmos: Construction of the Other as an Anomalous Body in 4 Ezra. In The Other in Second Temple Judaism: Festschrift in Honor of John J. Collins. Wm. Eerdmans.
- Raphael, R. (2009). [Review of Healing, by J. J. Collins & D. Harlow]. The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism.
- Raphael, R. (2009). [Review of Sickness and Disease, by J. J. Collins & D. Harlow]. The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor. 2012 - 2015
- Award / Honor Recipient: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research/Creative Activity. 2011
- Award / Honor Recipient: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research/Creative Activity. 2009
- Award / Honor Recipient: Junior Scholars Award, Southwest Commission for the Study of Religion. 2008
- Award / Honor Recipient: Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. 2005
Featured service activities
- Member
COLA Curriculum Committee
- Chair
SBL International Meeting Program Unit
- Organizer
Department of Philosophy, Texas State
- Organizer
Department of Philosophy, Texas State
- Volunteer
Shadow Cats Sanctuary
- Editorial Review Board Member
Golem: Journal of Religion and Monsters