Current Research Associates
Jessica J. Fowler
Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Catholicism
WSRP Research Associate 2023–24
Research project: Illuminating the Empire—The Spanish Inquisition and the Spread of Global Heresy, 1500-1700
Elena Herminia Guzman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and African Diaspora Studies
WSRP Research Associate 2023–24
Research project: Chimera Geographies—Black Spiritual Borderland Performances of the Caribbean
Samira K. Mehta
Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and North American Religions
Colorado Scholar
WSRP Research Associate 2023–24
Research project: God Bless the Pill—Contraception and Sexuality in Tri-Faith America
S. Zahra Moballegh
smoballegh@hds.harvard.eduVisiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Islam
WSRP Research Associate 2018–19 and 2023–24
Research project: Narrating for Love and Change—Reading Women’s Stories in Search of a Feminist Qur’anic Narrator
Z. Fareen Parvez
Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Islam
WSRP Research Associate 2023–24
Research project: Women, Trauma, and the Islamic Sciences of Healing — A Case Study of Jinn Possession in Morocco
Ashley M. Purpura
Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Theology
WSRP Research Associate 2023–24
Research project: Liberating Orthodoxy—Feminism, Faith, and Divine Otherness