Richard Klee

Visiting Assistant Professor
Faculty, the Moreau College Initiative at Westville Correctional Facility
Program of Liberal Studies/Moreau College Initiative at Westville Correctional

Research Interests

Second Temple Judaism, Migration, early Christianity, Ecology, Catholic Social Doctrine

Related Courses Taught

Core Humanities Sequence, Moreau College Initiative, PLS Seminars II and III

Biography

Richard Klee is a scholar of the internationalization of Judaism and Christianity. His forthcoming monograph, Religion in Migration: International Judaism and Tobit, explores the earliest complete manuscript of the Book of Tobit (ca. 200 BCE) and its refashioning of ethnic, literary and ritual traditions for displaced and diasporic communities. 

A faculty member with the Moreau College Initiative at Westville Correctional Facility for six years, Klee co-developed its humanities core curriculum, and inaugurated courses in Ancient Greek, ancient literature, and immigration.  In recognition of these efforts, Klee received the 2019 Sister Lenz O.S.F. Leadership Award from the University of Notre Dame.

Klee is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Yale University.  He has also held academic-year fellowships with the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures at Notre Dame and at the Universität Eberhard Karls in Tübingen, Germany.  Formerly director of an ESL school for adult immigrants, Klee currently serves on the boards of Education Bridge and the Shirley Heinze Land Trust.