Current Research Associates

Jennifer Barry

Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Early Christianity

WSRP Research Associate 2026-27

Colorado Scholar

Jennifer Barry joins WSRP as one of its 2026-27 research associates.

Fungai Chirongoma

Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies and African Religions

Fungai Chirongoma joins the WSRP as one of its 2026-27 research associates.

MK Long

Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies and South Asian Religions

MK Long joins WSRP as one of its 2026-27 research associates.

Zahra Moballegh

smoballegh@hds.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islam, 2026-27

WSRP Research Associate 2025-26, 2024-25, 2023-24, and 2018–19

Islamic Narrative Theology: Voice, Gender, and Authority in the Qur’an

Anna Torres

Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Jewish Studies

Home Institution University of Chicago WSRP Project A Bear Flew By: Animality in Jewish Arts and Literature This book-length project advances new readings of ecology, gender, and kinship in Ashkenazi culture. Profile Anna Elena Torres is a scholar of...

Paola Uparela

Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Christianity

Home Institution University of Florida WSRP Project Souls and Wombs: Women’s Labor, Miraculous Reproduction, and Colonial Biopolitics in the Transatlantic Evangelization Project This project examines several books and manuscripts by Dominican Friar...