TEACHING

Professor Hurd teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on religion, law, and global politics; American borders; and the United States and the world.

Prospective grad students: Information for prospective graduate students is here. Please read before contacting me.

In summer 2024, Hurd co-taught an intensive summer course on Religion, Law and Politics with Prof. Carlos Manrique at the University of the Andes in Bogotá. She enjoys traveling and teaching abroad, and has been visiting faculty at Sciences-Po Paris and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Hurd co-curates the open access Teaching Law and Religion Case Study Archive, offering legal cases and background materials for teaching on the intersections of law, religion, and politics globally in religious studies, political science, anthropology, sociology, international relations, and legal studies. 

In 2018 Hurd was awarded a Daniel I. Linzer Grant for Faculty Innovation in Diversity and Equity and, in 2014, a Hewlett Fellowship to develop her course “Politics of Religious Diversity.” She was awarded the R. Barry Farrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2006-07, and voted to the Faculty Honor Roll in 2002-03 and 2006-07.