Elisha Russ-Fishbane is Assistant Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT).  Before joining the faculty of Wesleyan University, he was a Tikvah Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Thought at Princeton University. Elisha received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2009. His dissertation, Between Politics and Piety: Abraham Maimonides and His Times, is a historical investigation into Egyptian Jewish society in the thirteenth century. It explores religious transformations of Egyptian Jewry, whose rituals and inner ideals reflect profound impact of contemporary Sufism, in the social and political context of contemporary transformations and upheavals in Egypt.