Dr. Ágnes (Ági) Veto, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion at Vassar College, grew up in Budapest, where she studied Biblical and Jewish Studies at Eotvos Lorand University. She then spent two years in Paris at the Sorbonne, the Institut Catholique and the École Pratique Des Hautes Études, and later a year  at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Dr. Veto earned an M.A. in African and Oriental Studies at S.O.A.S. University of London, another M.A. in Jewish Studies at the Rothberg Graduate School of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a PhD in Talmud and Rabbinic Literature at New York University.