Associate Professor, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures, University of Minnesota, August 2021-present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota, August 2013-2021.
Associate Professor, Old Testament studies, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo, Norway, September 2007-August 2013.
Assistant Professor, Old Testament studies, MF, January 2005-August 2007.
Doctoral scholarship, MF, August 1999-December 2004.
Assistant Professor, Old Testament studies, MF, 1997/98.
While at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo, Norway
Visiting Researcher in the Department of Bible, Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2012/2013.
Visiting Scholar at Luther Theological Seminary, Minnesota, June-September 2011, and March-April 2012.
Visiting Scholar at Duke University, Department of Religion, February-May 2011.
Visiting Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, March 2010.
Doctor Theologiae, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society (June 2007).
Dissertation: Silent or Salient Gender? The Interpretation of Gendered God-Language in the Hebrew Bible, Exemplified in Isaiah 42, 46, and 49.
Visiting Student, University of Chicago, Divinity School (winter quarter 2002). Sponsored by Professor Tikva Fymer-Kensky.
Intermediate Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (summer 2000).
Degree in Practical Theology, MF (December 1998).
Candidata theologia [Comparable to Master of Theology] MF (June 1997).
Studies at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany (summer semester 1995).
Examen Philosophicum, University of Oslo (December 1992).
Canadian Society of Biblical Studies book award: R. B. Y. Scott Award, 2023.
International First Book Award, John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, University of Heidelberg, 2008 ($20,000).
American Academy for Jewish Research, Workshop for Early Faculty (refereed competition), May 20-23, 2013, New York University (workshop and accommodation).
International Scholarship, Cultural Agreement Norway-Israel, the Norwegian Research Council, summer 2000 (tuition, accommodation, and stipend).
Graduate Research Fellowship, Spring 1999,MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society ($ 6,000)
Graduate Visiting Student’s Fellowship, Summer Semester 1994, Gerhardt Uhlhorn-Konvikt, Göttingen, while student at Georg-August-Universität (tuition, accommodation, and stipend)
Member of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Disabilities and Access Task Force. (1/1, 2026-12/31/2028)
Co-Chair of Steering Committee of the Society of Biblical Literature program unit: Use, Impact, and Influence of the Bible. 2024–
Steering Committee of the Society of Biblical Literature program unit: Use, Impact, and Influence of the Bible. 2023–
Chair of the Society of Biblical Literature program unit: Metaphor Theory and Hebrew Bible, 2012-2016.
Member of the Steering Committee of the Society of Biblical Literature program unit: Metaphor Theory and Biblical Texts (the unit changed name to Metaphor Theory and Hebrew Bible in 2012), 2009-2019.
Member of the Steering Committee of the Society of Biblical Literature program unit: Formation of Isaiah, 2008-213.
Member of the Steering Committee of OTSEM, Old Testament Studies: Epistemologies and Methods. A Nordic-German Network for Old Testament Studies. 2005- 2008.
Member of the Steering committee of NKTF Norsk kvinnelig teologforening [Norwegian Society for Female Theologians] research representative, 2006.
Member of the steering committee of Norsk gammeltestamentlig selskap [Norwegian Society for Old Testament Scholars] 2001-2004.
Peer review member of Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, 2021–.
Editorial board of Dictionary of Nature Imagery in the Bible. Supplement Monograph Series, Bloomsbury T & T Clark. (2017-present)
Editorial board of Teologisk Tidsskrift [Journal for Theology], 2012.
Editorial board of St. Sunniva: Tidsskrift for feministisk teologi [ St. Sunniva: Journal of Feminist Theology], 1999-2001 and 2012-present.
Editorial board of Ung Teologi, [Journal published by students at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society.]1994/95.
Society of Biblical Literature.