Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

 
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd teaches and writes on international politics, US and European foreign policy, law and religion, and the politics of the Middle East and North Africa, including Turkey and Iran, in global context. Her first book, The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton, 2008) won an APSA award for the best publication in religion and politics (2008-2010). Hurd is also co-editor of Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age (Palgrave, 2010), and recently guest edited a series on the politics of religious freedom on The Immanent Frame. Her essay, “Believing in religious freedom” is here. Hurd is currently working on a book, tentatively titled Religion Abroad, about the activities of public and private transnational actors that manage religion overseas. Central themes in the project include US religious politics abroad, legal religion, and the international construction and regulation of religious freedom. She is also co-PI on “The Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Norms and Local Practices,” a research project funded by the Luce Foundation which examines legal contestation surrounding religious freedom and the rights of religious minorities in the US, Middle East, South Asia, and the European Union. Recent publications include “A suspension of (dis)belief: the secular-religious binary and the study of international relations” in Rethinking Secularism (Oxford, 2011) and “Secularism and International Relations Theory” in Religion and International Relations Theory (Columbia, 2011). Details about current research projects and a CV are available on the research page. Information about courses taught and links to syllabi are available on the teaching page. Or visit her academia.edu page here. Hurd received her Ph.D. in 2002 from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and lives in Evanston, Illinois.http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Secularism-International-Relations-Princeton/dp/0691134669/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208106361&sr=8-2http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Secularism-International-Relations-Princeton/dp/0691134669/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208106361&sr=8-2http://www.amazon.com/Comparative-Secularisms-Global-Linell-Cady/dp/0230621244/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334192843&sr=8-1http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/category/exchanges/world-affairs/the-politics-of-religious-freedom/http://livepage.apple.com/http://www.politicsofreligiousfreedom.com/http://www.politicsofreligiousfreedom.com/http://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Secularism-Craig-Calhoun/dp/0199796688http://www.amazon.com/Religion-International-Relations-Theory-Culture/dp/0231153384/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316050278&sr=1-1http://www.amazon.com/Religion-International-Relations-Theory-Culture/dp/0231153384/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316050278&sr=1-1http://northwestern.academia.edu/ElizabethShakmanHurdhttp://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2012/03/01/believing-in-religious-freedom/shapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1shapeimage_4_link_2shapeimage_4_link_3shapeimage_4_link_4shapeimage_4_link_5shapeimage_4_link_6shapeimage_4_link_7shapeimage_4_link_8shapeimage_4_link_9shapeimage_4_link_10

Op-eds: Click here for “The Tragedy of Religious Freedom in Syria” and here for “Tunisia: Democracy after Secularism”

Associate Professor  Political Science  Northwestern University

eshurd@northwestern.edu