Meet the Faculty: Richard Klee ’18

Richard Klee ’18 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.