Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Department of Political Science

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins), assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, specializes in secularism, religion and international politics, relations between Europe, the United States, and the Middle East and North Africa, and international relations theory. Her first book, The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton, 2007 introduces two varieties of secularism, laicism and Judeo-Christian secularism, and analyzes their consequences for relations between Europe, the United States, Turkey and Iran. Recent publications include “Theorizing religious resurgence,” International Politics (2007); “Negotiating Europe: The politics of religion and the prospects for Turkish accession to the EU,” Review of International Studies (2006); and “The political authority of secularism in international relations,” European Journal of International Relations (2004). Hurd teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on politics and religion in international relations, the politics of secularism, international politics of the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy and nationalism.

eshurd@northwestern.edu