Annette Yoshiko Reed

Reed is a member of the Editorial Board of the book series Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism (TSAJ), published by Mohr Siebeck, with Seth Schwartz, Azzan Yadin, and Marin Niehoff. In 2018, she delivered the prestigious 2018 Taubman Lecture Series at the University of California, Berkeley. Her 2020 monograph, Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism, was a finalist for the Jewish Book Council's Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award. In 2020, she was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for her project, "Forgetting: Retheorizing the Ancient Jewish Past and its Jewish and Christian Reception."

Reed began her teaching career in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University (2003–2007) before moving to the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (2007–2017). During her time at the University of Pennsylvania, she served as coordinator of the Philadelphia Seminar of Christian Origins as well as Director of the Center for Ancient Studies. She has held multiple fellowships at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. In 2017, she joined the faculty of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Department of Religious Studies at NYU. From July 2021, she will be Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard University's Divinity School.

Reed received her B.A. (with First Class Honours) from McGill University in 1997. Subsequently, she completed an M.T.S. from Harvard University's Divinity School in 1999. She then received both an M.A. (2001) and a Ph.D. (2002) from Princeton University, where she studied with Martha Himmelfarb, Peter Schäfer, John Gager, and Elaine Pagels.

Annette Yoshiko Reed (born April 13, 1973) is an American religious historian. She is currently a Professor in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Department of Religious Studies at New York University. Reed's research interests span the topics of Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity, with particular attention to retheorizing religion, identity, difference, and forgetting. She is the daughter of political scientist Steven Reed (political scientist).