Hannah
Mayne
Hannah Mayne
University of Toronto
Ariel and Joshua Weiner Family Fellow
Research Topic
Transgressive Piety: Emerging Practices of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women
Bio
Hannah Mayne is an anthropologist working on the political aspects of contemporary religious Jewish life. Her research examines debates about gender equality, public forms of religiosity, and transformations in ritual practices. Her Katz Center project investigates new forms of ultra-Orthodox women’s prayer in Jerusalem that destabilize Orthodox gender structures.
Mayne is currently completing her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto.
Selected publications
- “Women’s Tefillah Groups and the Boundaries of Orthodoxy,” AJS Review 46.1 (2022): 92–112.
- “Divine Law and Ethical Immanence at the Western Wall in Jerusalem,” Anthropological Theory 19.3 (2019): 362–84.
