Professor of Political Science
Department of Religious Studies (by courtesy)
Northwestern University
Research Interests
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd teaches and writes on the politics of religion, US foreign relations, and the global politics of the Middle East at Northwestern, where she is Professor of Political Science and Religious Studies. Hurd is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (2008), Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (2015), and co-editor of Politics of Religious Freedom and Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age. She is co-PI, with Winnifred Sullivan, on a Luce-supported collaborative research project “Politics of Religion at Home and Abroad” (2016-2019) and co-organized the “Politics of Religious Freedom” project (2011-2014). At Northwestern she directs the Buffett Faculty Research Group on Global Politics & Religion.
Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Politics of Religious Freedom (co-edited with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Saba Mahmood and Peter Danchin). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 
Co-winner of the American Political Science Association’s Hubert Morken Award for the Best Publication in Religion and Politics (2008-2010).
