Daniel Langton

Langton was home schooled before studying History for his BA (Hons) 1991-94 and PhD 1994-98 at the Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton.

Langton has taught at the University of Manchester, in the department of Religions and Theology, since 2001. He is co-director of the Centre for Jewish Studies and co-editor of the journal Melilah. He was an AHRC Leadership Fellow for 2016-17 with a project entitled 'The Doubting Jew' and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2013-15 with a project entitled 'Darwin's Jews'. He was a recipient of the University of Manchester Teaching Excellence Prize in 2006. He was President 2014-15 and Secretary 2002-10 of the British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS), and Secretary 2010-14 of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS).

Langton has explored the history of Jewish-Christian relations and modern Jewish thought and identity in a variety of contexts, including Jewish New Testament studies, the origins of Anglo-Reform and Anglo-Liberal Judaism, Israel and Zionism, Holocaust Theology, and Jewish religious engagement with Jewish views on evolution and with Atheism.