Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Associate Professor
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Professor Hurd works at the intersection of international politics, legal studies and religious studies. She is currently writing a book on the legal and administrative regulation of religion in global and transnational politics. Central themes include the politics of international human rights, global governance, legal and religious pluralism, and the international legal construction and regulation of religious freedom. Hurd is co-PI of the research project “Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Norms and Local Practices,” a collaborative project examining legal contestation involving religious freedom in the United States, South and Southeast Asia, the European Union, the Middle East and South Africa. Other research interests include the global politics of secularism and religion, the cultural, legal and philosophical foundations of international order, the politics and history of Turkey and Iran, and the Middle East in international politics. Hurd is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton, 2008), which won the APSA's Hubert Morken Award for the Best Publication in Religion and Politics (2008-2010), and co-editor of Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age (Palgrave, 2010). Other recent publications include “A suspension of (dis)belief: the secular-religious binary and the study of international relations” in Rethinking Secularism, edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer and Jonathan VanAntwerpen (Oxford, 2011) and “Secularism and International Relations Theory” in Religion and International Relations Theory, edited by Jack Snyder (Columbia, 2011).
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