William Scott Green

{{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = William Scott Green | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt= | caption= | native_name= | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = | birth_place= | death_date = | death_place= | death_cause= | nationality= | citizenship= | other_names= | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = Fain Family Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies | boards =  | spouse = Rebecca MacMillan Fox | partner= | children = | parents= | relatives = | awards = Eastman Medal, University of Rochester | website= | education = Brown University (PhD), Dartmouth College (AB) | alma_mater = | thesis_title = The legal traditions of Joshua ben Ḥananiah in Mishnah -Tosefta and related materials. | thesis_url = https://bruknow.library.brown.edu/permalink/01BU_INST/661ovh/alma991038720639706966 | thesis_year= 1974 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = Jacob Neusner | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era= | discipline = | sub_discipline = | workplaces = University of Rochester, University of Miami | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''William Scott Green''' is professor of religious studies and holds the Fain Family Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Miami.<ref name="Miami bio">{{cite web |title=William Green |url=https://people.miami.edu/profile/7efff43910c1aa359ab9c85b0411bdfa |website=people.miami.edu |publisher=University of Miami |language=en|access-date=24 March 2026}}</ref> He previously taught at the University of Rochester, where he is Philip S. Bernstein Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies, and was an administrator there, now holding the title of Dean Emeritus of the College.<ref name="Rochester bio">{{cite web |title=William Scott Green |url=https://www.sas.rochester.edu/rel/people/emeritus/green_william/index.html |website=www.sas.rochester.edu |publisher=University of Rochester |access-date=24 March 2026}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Green's father, William S. Green, was a lawyer from Manchester, New Hampshire and served as the state's deputy attorney general.<ref name="marriage 1981" /> His mother, Joan Green, was a social worker.<ref name="marriage 1981" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Green |first1=William Scott |title=The traditions of Joshua Ben Ḥananiah |date=1981 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |isbn=9004063188 |page=XI}}</ref>

Green attended Mount Hermon School and received his undergraduate education at Dartmouth College, where he was awarded an A.B. in religion.<ref name="marriage 1981" /><ref name="Miami bio" /> In 1967, he was editor of ''The Dartmouth'', the college's newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ivy League Papers Split on Deferment; Ivy League Papers Split Over Student Deferments |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/09/archives/ivy-league-papers-split-on-deferment-ivy-league-papers-split-over.html |access-date=24 March 2026 |work=New York Times |date=9 March 1967 |page=1}}</ref> He was a member of the class of 1968.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Whitney |editor1-first=Robert B. |title=Aegis 1968 |date=1968 |location=Hanover, New Hampshire |url=https://archive.org/details/aegis-1968-complete/page/352/mode/2up?q=William |access-date=24 March 2026}}</ref> At Dartmouth, he became a student of Jacob Neusner, who was teaching there at the time.<ref name="neu bio">{{cite book |last1=Hughes |first1=Aaron W. |title=Jacob Neusner: an American Jewish iconoclast |date=2016 |publisher=New York University Press |location=New York |isbn=9781479866991}}</ref>

He earned a Ph.D. from Brown University.<ref name="Miami bio" /> He had followed Neusner there from Dartmouth, becoming one of his first graduate students.<ref name="neu bio" />

== Career == Green became a faculty member at the University of Rochester in 1974.<ref name="2010 commencement" />

By 1981, Green was an associate professor at the University of Rochester and chair of the program in religious studies.<ref name="marriage 1981" /> He would be founding chair of the university's Department of Religion and Classics.<ref name="2010 commencement" />

Green's doctoral research was published by Brill in 1981 as ''The Traditions of Joshua Ben Hananiah''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Green |first1=William Scott |title=The traditions of Joshua Ben Ḥananiah |date=1981 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |isbn=9004063188}}</ref>

In the 1981–82 academic year, he was R.T. French Visiting Fellow at Worcester College of Oxford University.<ref name="marriage 1981" />

He was appointed professor of religion at the University of Rochester in 1985.<ref name="u to celebrate">{{cite web |title=University to Celebrate the Contributions of William Scott Green |url=https://rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2531 |website=University of Rochester |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215215103/https://rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2531 |archive-date=15 Feb 2009 |date=24 April 2006}}</ref> In 1991, he was named Philip S Bernstein Professor of Judaic Studies.<ref name="u to celebrate" /> He was dean of undergraduate studies from 1991 to 1996. From 1996 to 2006 he was dean of the college. He collaborated with a faculty committee to introduce the university's "Rochester Curriculum," which prioritized the ability of students to pursue intellectual passions.<ref name="2010 commencement">{{cite web |title=University of Rochester Commencements Celebrate Achievement |url=https://www.rochester.edu/news/printable.php?id=3624 |website=University of Rochester |access-date=24 March 2026 |date=11 May 2010}}</ref>

Green left Rochester in 2006 and moved to the University of Miami, where he became professor of religious studies, senior vice provost, and dean of undergraduate education.<ref name="2010 commencement" />

In 2010, Green received Rochester's Eastman Medal at commencement.<ref name="2010 commencement" />

He left his administrative post at the University of Miami in 2020, but remained on the faculty.<ref name="Miami bio" />

== Editor == Green took over as editor of the ''Journal of the American Academy of Religion'' in 1984.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Scharlemann |first1=Robert P. |author1-link=Robert P. Scharlemann |title=Editor's Foreword |journal=Journal of the American Academy of Religion |date=1 December 1984 |volume=LII |issue=4 |page=643 |doi=10.1093/jaarel/52.4.643}}</ref>

== Personal life == Green married Rebecca MacMillan Fox in 1981 at the home of her sister and brother-in-law Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Dominic Genovese. The ceremony was performed by Neusner.<ref name="marriage 1981">{{cite news |title=Rebecca Fox Wed To William Green |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/03/style/rebecca-fox-wed-to-william-green.html |access-date=24 March 2026 |work=New York Times |date=3 August 1981 |page=B12}}</ref>

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