WSRP Announces 2023–24 Research Associates
Jessica J. Fowler, Elena Herminia Guzman, Samira K. Mehta, S. Zahra Moballegh, Z. Fareen Parvez, and Ashley M. Purpura named 2023–24 WSRP Research Associates.
Jessica J. Fowler, Elena Herminia Guzman, Samira K. Mehta, S. Zahra Moballegh, Z. Fareen Parvez, and Ashley M. Purpura named 2023–24 WSRP Research Associates.
Orientation offered students the opportunity to hear from the 2023–24 WSRP researchers.
Zahra Moballegh specializes in Philosophy and Islamic thought and has published several articles on feminist philosophy and Islamic feminism in Zanan e Emrooz (Women of Today), the leading magazine for women’s voices in Iran. Her first book, Faith...
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.
Research project: Liberating Orthodoxy—Feminism, Faith, and Divine Otherness
Research project: Women, Trauma, and the Islamic Sciences of Healing — A Case Study of Jinn Possession in Morocco
Research project: Illuminating the Empire—The Spanish Inquisition and the Spread of Global Heresy, 1500-1700
Research project: God Bless the Pill—Contraception and Sexuality in Tri-Faith America
Research project: Chimera Geographies—Black Spiritual Borderland Performances of the Caribbean
Elena Herminia Guzman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and African Diaspora Studies and a 2023-24 WSRP Research Associate.