Women and Gender in Religion

Elena Herminia Guzman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and African Diaspora Studies and a 2023-24 WSRP Research Associate.

Orientation offered students the opportunity to hear from the 2023–24 WSRP researchers.

Swasti Bhattacharyya is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion at Buena Vista University.

Nurhaizatul Jamil is an Assistant Professor in Global South Studies, co-director of the Global South Center, and co-coordinator of the Social Media Lab at the Pratt Institute.

Delfina I. Nieto-Isabel is an associate researcher at the Institute for Research on Medieval Cultures (IRCVM) at the University of Barcelona. 

Heather White's year-long research project at the WSRP is entitled, "Hosting the Counterculture: Histories of Queer Episcopal New York."

Rahina Muazu (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin) delivers her 2021-22 WSRP lecture.

As part of the 2021-22 WSRP Lecture Series, Swasti Bhattacharyya, gave the lecture, "Simple Living and High Thinking: A Definition of Spirituality."

As part of the 2021-22 WSRP Lecture Series, Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel (University of Barcelona), delivered the lecture, "Tangled Souls, Hidden Voices: Women and Dissident Networks in the Late Middle Ages."

Swasti Bhattacharyya, Nurhaizatul Jamil, Rahina Muazu, Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, and Heather White join the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS to work on book-length projects during the 2021–22 academic year.