A native New Yorker, Sara Lipton is a medievalist who specializes in Jewish-Christian relations, art, and religious practices. Her first book, Images of Intolerance, won the Medieval Academy of America's John Nicholas Brown Prize for Best First Book. Lipton has also written on more contemporary topics, including gender, anti-Semitism, ethnic caricature, Israeli culture, and religious retreats for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, TomDispatch, and The Huffington Post. Lipton teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. A native New Yorker, Sara Lipton is a medievalist who specializes in Jewish-Christian relations, art, and religious practices. Her first book, Images of Intolerance, won the Medieval Academy of America's John Nicholas Brown Prize for Best First Book. Lipton has also written on more contemporary topics, including gender, anti-Semitism, ethnic caricature, Israeli culture, and religious retreats for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, TomDispatch, and The Huffington Post. Lipton teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. ...more