Dr. Simkovich is the Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies and director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Malka’s dozens of articles have been published in such journals as the Harvard Theological Review and the Journal for the Study of Judaism, as well on online forums such as TheTorah.com, The Lehrhaus, and the Times of Israel. Her book, The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria was published in 2016 and Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Stories and Scriptures That Shaped Early Judaism, was published in 2018. Malka speaks at Jewish institutions throughout the United States and Canada.