Susannah Heschel holds the Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies and serves as associate professor in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in and has taught at Southern Methodist University and Case Western Reserve University before joining the faculty at Dartmouth in the fall of 1998. Her research areas include modern Jewish thought, feminist theology, and German Protestantism.

She is the author of numerous studies on modern Jewish thought, including, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press, 1998) and Insider/Outsider: Jews and Multiculturalism, co-edited with David Biale and Michael Galchinsky (University of California Press, 1998).

She is the daughter of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Jewish philosopher, and social activist.