Dr. Mónica I. Rey (she/her/ella)

serves as adjunct professor of Gender Studies at Babson College and Women’s and Gender Studies at Wheaton College (MA). In July 2025, she will begin a new role as Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Gammon Theological Seminary.

A feminist biblical scholar, Rey holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Boston University (conferred May 2024). Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, genocide, and the Hebrew Bible, including its afterlives in contemporary discourse and practice. Rey earned a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from Boston University and participated in the MIT GCWS Workshop for Dissertation Writers in Women's and Gender Studies–an outstanding resource for research and collaboration in areas related to WGS. She has published on the law of the foreign female captive (Deut 21:10–14) as a case of genocidal rape in the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (2016). Rey has a peer-reviewed journal article forthcoming on the use of just war theory in interpretations of Deuteronomy, an article accepted to the Journal of the American Academy of Religion on the role of head-shaving as a ritual of enslavement, as well as a chapter in the edited volume The Bible and Violence (Bloomsbury T&T Clark 2026) titled, “Genocidal Language in the Hebrew Bible: A Reappraisal,” and a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of the Hebrew Bible, Gender and Sexuality, “Yefat To’ar in Deuteronomy 21:10–14 and the Role of Beauty in Warfare.” Her first book, Gendering Genocide in the Hebrew Bible is forthcoming with Routledge in the book series Rape Culture, Religion and the Bible. Rey is a 2024–2025 CURA Fellow at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University. She was a 2023–2024 Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow with the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention. Rey continues to serve as co-chair of the Feminist Studies in Religion CoLaboratory.