Dr. Garroway was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Bible at the HUC-JIR Jack H. Skirball Campus in 2011.  Her scholarly interests include the status of children in the ancient Near East, Deuteronomistic Histories, Former Prophets, feminist and gender studies, and archaeology.  Before coming to Los Angeles, Dr. Garroway received her doctorate in Hebrew Bible and Cognate Studies at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 2009. Prior to completing her degree she spent time studying and researching in Israel and has participated in excavations at Ashkelon, Tel Dor, and Tel Dan.  She currently resides in Pasadena with her husband and two boys.

• Ph.D., HUC-JIR (2009)

• Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Dissertation Grant
• Scheuer Dissertation Fellowship for Archaeological Research in Israel
• Summer in Israel Scholarship at Hebrew Union College
• The Isadore and Goldie Millstone Fellowship merit award

• Exploring Children in the Ancient Near East through Archaeology and Text
• Women of the Bible and Ancient Literatures
• Feminist and Gender Issues in the Bible and ancient Near East
• The Archaeology of the Land of Israel
• Biblical Historiography
• Adoption, Birth, Marriage, and/or Death in the Ancient Near East
• The Haftorah: What can we learn from it?
• Israelite Religion
• Construction of identity and status in Biblical Israel and ancient Near Eastern cultures

• “It’s All About Food: How Writing Developed and the Origins of the Ketubah,” Slifka Center, New Haven, CT
• “Adoption in Ancient Israel? A New Reading of Exodus 21:7-11,” New England Regional Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, Andover, MA
• “Wanted: Dead or Alive,” Middlebury College Lecture, Middlebury, VT
• “Did People Eat Their Children in Times of War? An Extraordinary Practice in Extraordinary Times,” Taste of LIMMUD-LA, Los Angeles, CA
• “Neither Slave Nor Free: Children in Time of Siege,” Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, New Orleans, LA
• “Uncovering Children in the Land of Ancient Israel,” Lecture for Skirball Museum Docents, Los Angeles, CA
• “Buried Dead or Alive: Were Children in MB II Societies Considered People?” Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, Atlanta, GA
• "Gendered or (Un)Gendered? The Perception of Children in the Ancient Near East," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 71.1 (2012)
• “Was Bathsheba the Original Bridget Jones? A New Look at Bathsheba in Film and Biblical Scholarship” (article being reviewed with Nashim)
• “Children in the Ancient Near East,” (chapter for the upcoming Samuel Greengus Festschrift)