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

Jessica Fowler WSRP RA

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

Elena Guzman WSRP RA

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

Samira Mehta WSRP RA

S. Zahra Moballegh

Visiting 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

S. Zahra Moballegh

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

Fareen Parvez

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

Ashley Purpura