Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Northwestern University
Bio
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (US). She studies the cultural and normative foundations of international relations including religion and politics in the U.S. and globally, the politics of secularism and religious freedom, U.S. borders, and international relations between the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. At Northwestern she co-directs the Global Religion & Politics Research Group and a core faculty member in the MENA Studies program. Major publications include:
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The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton, 2008)
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Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (Princeton, 2015)
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At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion (co-editor, Columbia, 2021)
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Theologies of American Exceptionalism (co-editor, Indiana, 2019, 2021 (paper)
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Politics of Religious Freedom (co-editor, Chicago, 2015)
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Symposium, “Re-Thinking Religious Freedom,” Journal of Law and Religion (co-editor, 2014)
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Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age (co-editor, Palgrave, 2013)
Hurd teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on religion, race, and global politics; law and religion; American borders; the politics of religious and spiritual diversity, and the United States in the Middle East. She co-curates the Teaching Law and Religion Case Study Archive, an open access archive of cases for teaching on the intersections of law, religion, and politics around the world. Hurd’s latest book, American Border Religion, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2025.