Karma Ben Johanan completed her PhD at the School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University, and then conducted her postdoc as a Fulbright fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a Polonsky Academy fellow in Jerusalem. She was appointed as professor of Jewish-Christian relations at the Department of Theology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where she served between 2019-2022.  Presently, she teaches in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the late-modern intellectual history of religion, on Jewish-Christian relations, secularization, and inter-religious relations. She was awarded the Dan David Prize for the Study of the Past in 2023. Her book, Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022), was awarded the Polonsky Prize, the Catholic Media Association Award, and the Shazar prize, and was a finalist of the Jewish National Book Award. Ben Johanan is currently leading an ERC project exploring the Christian repudiation of antisemitism in Europe after WWII, and the tension between religious and non-religious perceptions of antisemitism.