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## Meet the 2025–26 Research Associates 

 

The new research associates will work on book-length projects during the 2025–26 academic year.



 [  arrow\_forward  Read the Announcement ](https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/06/04/wsrp-announces-2025-26-research-associates) 

 



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### Welcome 

 

The Women's Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) was founded to explore the fundamental role played by religious traditions in defining roles for women and men. Research on religion and gender sheds light on questions about the changing roles of women both inside religious communities and in broader public spheres.



 [  arrow\_forward  About the WSRP ](/about) 

 



      ![WSRP staff laughing with several Research Associates](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2023-12/05032019-Deans-Leadership-Forum-499-3000px.jpg?itok=zOymby67) 

 

 

  

 



 

 

 

 

##  News & Events 

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  [### Research Associate Z. Fareen Parvez Explores ‘Women, Trauma, and the Islamic Sciences of Healing’

 ](/news/2024/07/03/research-associate-fareen-parvez-explores-women-trauma-islamic-sciences) July 03, 2024 

*Parvez’s 2023-24 WSRP research project examined how women become central to debates about Islamic reform and how possession becomes a site to manage gender relations and trauma.*



 

 

   ![Z. Fareen Parvez](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-07/Parvez-Interview-900.jpg?h=11ca3714&itok=3EkWgfi3) 

 



 

 

   [### WSRP Research Associate Samira Mehta on ‘Contraception and Sexuality in Tri-Faith America’

 ](/news/2024/06/28/research-associate-samira-mehta-contraception-sexuality-tri-faith-america) June 28, 2024 

Mehta taught the HDS course, “Religion and Reproductive Politics in the United States.”



 

 

   ![Samira Mehta](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-06/Samira-V2-WSRP-News.jpg?itok=3iSbA8KU) 

 



 

 

   [### Research Associate S. Zahra Moballegh on 'Narrating for Love and Change'

 ](/news/2024/06/21/research-associate-s-zahra-moballegh-narrating-love-change) June 21, 2024 

Moballegh specializes in philosophy and Islamic thought.



 

 

   ![ S. Zahra Moballegh is Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Islam and a 2023-24/2024-25 WSRP Research Associate. / Courtesy photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum4861/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2024-06/Zahra-WSRP-Interview-900.jpg?itok=5odqgEOF) 

 



 

 

  

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