Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is Associate Professor of Political Science and holds a courtesy appointment in Religious Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton, 2008), which won an APSA award for the best book on religion and politics published 2008–2010. Her latest book is Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (Princeton, 2015). She is co-organiser of ‘Politics of Religious Freedom: Contested Norms and Local Practices’, a collaborative research project funded by the Luce Foundation, and consults on academic, media and foundation projects involving religion and international affairs. Her opinion pieces have appeared in Boston Review, Public Culture, The Atlantic, Chicago Tribune, Globe and Mail, Foreign Policy and Al Jazeera America.