[8] Michaelson has won the New York Society for Professional Journalists award for opinion writing three times,[9] most recently in 2023, for his article "There are a lot of Jews in Hollywood.
[10] In addition to covering the Supreme Court,[11][12] he has written on climate change,[13] antisemitism,[14][15] voter suppression,[16][17] judicial nominations,[18][19] and other subjects, and has been featured on CNN,[20] MSNBC,[21][22] and Meet the Press.
[24] Michaelson's work on this issue gained prominence a year later after the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case[25] and he has written many articles on religious liberty in Reuters,[26] The Washington Post[27] and other publications.
The Religious Case for Equality was an Amazon bestseller and Lambda Literary Award finalist,[41] and Michaelson spoke at over 100 places of worship during the 2009–15 debates about same-sex marriage.
[44] Other LGBTQ-focused work includes the chapter on Exodus in the Queer Bible Commentary[45] (2022) Michaelson married Paul Dakin in 2011.
[47] Michaelson holds a PhD in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he wrote his dissertation on the antinomian heretic Jacob Frank.
[48] He is an affiliated assistant professor at Chicago Theological Seminary and a visiting fellow at the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion.