Adam B. Seligman is Professor of Religion at Boston University and Director of its Graduate Program in Religion. He lived for close to 20 years in Israel and was a member of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom in the 1970’s. He was Fulbright Fellow in Hungary from 1990 to 1992. He has been Visiting Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and Visiting Professor of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management as well as in universities in Japan and Israel.
He is Founding Director of CEDAR – Communities Engaging in Difference and Religion which, since 2001, has run yearly global programs on living with difference through the ongoing development of a unique pedagogy and set of practices.
He has written or edited close to two dozen books, the latest of which (with Robert Weller) was How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, Metaphor (Oxford University Press, 2019). In 2020 he was recipient of the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize.