teaching

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Hurd teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on religion, race and global politics; law and religion; religion and borders; US foreign relations; and the international relations of the Middle East. She oversees graduate students interested in these topics as well as international theory, political ethnography, methods in the study of religion and politics, and the politics of the Middle East. For examples of her students’ writing from her recent course “Reporting Islam” see here.

In 2017 Hurd and Winni Sullivan launched the Teaching Law and Religion Case Study Archive which can be downloaded free of charge by instructors anywhere. The site provides legal cases and background materials for teaching about the intersections of law, religion and politics. It is designed for colleagues in religious studies, political science, anthropology, sociology, international relations and legal studies, and those working at the practical intersections of religion and politics.

In 2018 Hurd was awarded a Daniel I. Linzer Grant for Faculty Innovation in Diversity and Equity to develop a course based on these materials to be offered in 2020-21. In 2014 Hurd was awarded a Hewlett Fellowship to develop a new course on “Politics of Religious Diversity.” In 2006-07 Hurd was awarded the R. Barry Farrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. She was voted to the Faculty Honor Roll in 2002-03 and 2006-07.

Undergraduate syllabi:

Reporting Islam (Polisci 390/RelStudies 359)

First-Year Seminar: Politics of Religion at Home and Abroad (Polisci 101)

Politics of Religious Diversity (Polisci 382/RelStudies 379)

Religion and Politics beyond Freedom and Violence (Humanities 370/Poli Sci 390)

International Politics of the Middle East (Polisci 372/MENA Studies 301)

America and the World (Polisci 390)

Politics of Religious Freedom: Minorities, Rights, Law (Polisci 101)

Graduate syllabi:

Religion, Race, & Politics: Global and Imperial Perspectives (Poli Sci 490/Rel 471)

Religion and Modernity (with Robert Orsi) (Poli Sci 490/Rel 471)

Law, Religion & Global Politics: Cross-cultural Perspectives