Mara H. Benjamin, a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, is Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is a scholar of modern Jewish religious thought and a constructive Jewish theologian. Benjamin’s 2018 book, The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought, received the 2019 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflective category. Her current project, Terrestrial: Jewish Thought and a World Disrupted, analyzes the profound challenges ecological crisis poses to Jewish theology.