Johnathan is a PhD student in Religious Studies at Boston University and Graduate Research Assistant for The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies’ Project on Ethics and the Holocaust. A doctoral student under the supervision of Professor Michael Zank, Johnathan’s works mainly in the history of the philosophy of religion, modern Jewish thought, and Holocaust studies. For the Project on Ethics and the Holocaust, Johnathan is working with Professor Michael Grodin on the Holocaust-era responsa of Rabbi Ephraim Oshry of Kovno, whose five-volume selection of responsa is the largest and most wide-ranging set of responsa to survive the war. Prior to joining the religion department at Boston University, Johnathan earned his B.A. in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. in philosophy at Boston University after completing his M.A. thesis on the concept of radical evil in the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas and in contemporary ethical theory.