Françoise Mirguet (Ph.D., Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2007) is an Associate Professor of Hebrew and Near Eastern Cultures at Arizona State University, where she is also a member of the Center for Jewish Studies. She has been the recipient of a post-doctoral fellowship from the Belgian Research Council (2007–2010); she has also been a fellow at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (2013), at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (2015), and at the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies (2016–2017). Her first book was published in 2009; she has also published several peer-reviewed articles.