TEACHING

Professor Hurd teaches religion, race and global politics; law and religion; religion and the American border; US foreign relations; and the international relations of the Middle East. She advises graduate students interested in these topics as well as international political theory, political ethnography, methods in the study of religion and politics, and the politics of the Middle East.

Information for prospective graduate students is here. (Please read before contacting Prof. Hurd.)

Hurd co-curates, with Winnifred Sullivan, the Teaching Law and Religion Case Study Archive which can be downloaded free of charge. It offers legal cases and background materials for teaching on the intersections of law, religion, and politics around the world. It is suitable for instructors in religious studies, political science, anthropology, sociology, international relations, and legal studies. 

Hurd was awarded a 2018 Daniel I. Linzer Grant for Faculty Innovation in Diversity and Equity and a 2014 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.