Graduate Associate, 2011- | Department of Religion

PhD Student, Department of Religion, University of Toronto.

Alex is a PhD student at the Centre for the Study of Religion working in collaboration with the Centre for Jewish Studies. His research will focus on analyzing the development of virtue ethics among the Jews in medieval Spain, North Africa and Provence. He plans to do so through an analysis of the ethical lessons (toaliot hamiddot) of Levi Gersonides’ (1288-1344) in his Biblical Commentary. Such a study will be in dialogue with the contemporary revival of virtue ethics among such thinkers such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Martha Nussbaum.

Alex received his Masters degree in Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed a Bachelors degree with distinction from the University of Toronto in Political Science and Jewish Studies. He also has recently been a visiting researcher at the Taylor-Schecter Genizah Unit at Cambridge University. His graduate research has received support through the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. In addition, he has recently written for Jewish Political Studies Review, Review of Metaphysics and the Review of Politics.

Email: alexh.green@utoronto.ca