Questions related to the body and the senses, materiality and ritual space, the formations of religious identity and practice, and the boundaries between humans and other entities (animals, objects, images) drive her work. Dr. Neis had written about visuality, prayer, pilgrimage, icon–­veneration and ‘mystical texts,’ and toilet habits. Her first book The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2013) won the Salon Baron Prize for best first book in Jewish Studies.