Dr Lea Taragin-Zeller is a cultural anthropologist with research interests in religion, gender, science and reproductive politics.
She is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an affiliated scholar at the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc), University of Cambridge.
Her book “The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land” (NYU Press, 2023) was awarded a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award by the AJS in the category of Social Sciences, Anthropology, and Folklore in 2024. She co-leads “The Reproductive Righteousness Project”, an interdisciplinary feminist collaboration on right-wing extremism, “The Jewish Reproduction Working Group”, and has ongoing research projects aimed at developing a model of inclusive science and health communication for religious minorities.