College of Arts and Letters
 

Department of Social Sciences

Faculty

Susan Schept - Affiliate Associate Professor
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Affiliate Associate Professor

Email: sschept@stevens.edu
Phone:  (201) 216-5397
Fax: (201) 216-8245
Office: Peirce 211

Research Interests

I use psychological theory to interpret Biblical and other sacred Jewish texts. Currently, I am working to look for origins of care ethics in Jewish texts.


Education

Ph.D. study and M.A. at Graduate Faculty of New School University (M.A. in Psychology awarded in 1977)
B.A., Douglass Collge, Rutgers the State University, 1966

Principal Publications

"Hesed: Feminist Ethics in Jewish Tradition" in Conservative Judaism, Fall 2004

Professional Affiliations

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Association for Jewish Studies

Principal Courses Taught

Fundamentals of Psychology: Biological Bases of Behavior
Fundamentals of Psychology: Development, Personality, and Pathology
Theories of Personality
Seminar in Freud and Jung
Psychology of Gender
Psychology of Religion

Other/Personal

Nominated to "Who's Who among America's Teachers" 2002 and 2004


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